Why we travel – the benefits

Tourism provides a higher quality of life for locals, by bringing in money and providing jobs. But the improved understanding and tolerance it promotes works both ways. Explore groups will meet local people and communities and it’s a two-way interaction. We learn about their lives; they learn about ours. 

Increasing tolerance and inclusion and celebrating difference is a huge benefit of global tourism. By broadening our awareness and understanding we become more open-minded and tolerant as a people. 

We know that flying and using transport in particular has a negative effect on our environment, but there are ways that tourism can benefit our environment too.

We can help support local projects by getting our customers involved on the ground. Tourism can help protect nature, biodiversity and wildlife. We’ve developed an Animal Protection Policy we’re really proud of and, as we share this with our partners and suppliers, we’re hoping to help those facilities that don’t meet our standards to improve – through the experts we work with at Wild Welfare and ANIMONDIAL. 

For every customer that travels with us, we make a donation to Cool Earth and Rewilding Britain. These two charities support and enable the protection and regeneration of landscapes both in the UK and Peru to improve biodiversity, champion community-led initiatives and nature-based economies which in turn helps to fight the climate emergency.