Travelling Positively

At a time when Climate Change is high on the global agenda, it is debateable whether we should be promoting any travel other than that powered by carbon-free energy.

Our view is that it is impractical to expect everyone to stop travelling until more efficient and sustainable forms of fuel have been developed. In the interim it is about travelling responsibly e.g. reducing the number of car journeys one makes and the flights one takes.

But, just as importantly, I believe that there are economic benefits to travel and tourism which would be lost if we were to stop travelling.

At its Millennium Summit in 2000, the United Nations set forth as one of its Millennium Development Goals the eradication of extreme poverty by 2015.

The World Tourism Organization responded to this challenge by launching the ST-EP (Sustainable Tourism – Eliminating Poverty) initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. The initiative “focuses on enhancing the Organization’s longstanding work to encourage sustainable tourism – social, economic and ecological – with activities that specifically alleviate poverty, delivering development and jobs to people living on less than a dollar a day.”

This web site is dedicated to seeking out and promoting those tourism products that have a positive impact on local communities, environment and wildlife. It also supports, either directly or indirectly, charities, NGOS, social enterprises and not-for-profits which themselves are making a differe