How do you run your tours to reduce environmental impact?

Explore holidays are designed to operate with the least environmental impact possible. It is always a big challenge to make a change to the existing itinerary without ruining the holiday feeling for our customers. We always try to use less plastic, less energy and fewer transfers as we are walking from one accommodation to the next, using transportation only when it is absolutely necessary. On the other hand, Corfu's nature and culture as a popular tourist destination is in danger. So I think that the best way to act is to use Explore as a weapon in the environmental protection fight. Trying to make the locals and the authorities realise that there is a kind of tourism that can help the local economy and protect our nature and our tradition has become part of my life. All the small businesses, living on the walking holidays, became our allies.

Explore customers are very conscious about the problems humanity is facing and Corfu has the same effects of our respectless behaviour as the rest of the world. What I have done many times is that I transformed Walking Holidays to Experience holidays. Some people are used to walking as a challenge only. Our walks are the way to get the most of the information from every interesting spot, meadow, Olive Grove or creature we meet on our way. Observing, tasting, smelling, exchanging information and also photographing can transform challenging walks to days of knowledge. This is the best feedback I get from my companions.