Our approach

These tours are a meeting of many worlds designed to provoke questions and stimulate debate about the best way forward for our complex planet, divided as we are into rich and poor, the empowered and the dis-empowered.

It is about taking those who have many life choices and freedoms to meet those who have few, in a way that builds bridges and understanding between people. As a small but essential by-product, we aim to leave those we visit better off and more empowered than before.

A Responsible Approach

Our tours are designed to be run responsibly and seek to:

• respect all people - both travellers and those who provide services to them

• work with local partners in all countries in which we operate ensuring local people benefit economically and socially from our visits

• ensure that guides and others involved are paid a fair wage

• respect the environment, minimise impact on resources and the natural environment and encourage recycling where possible

• respect local culture and traditions and report on our impact on them

• build links with locally based tourism projects that have a pro-poor focus

• operate in line with all Traidcraft’s existing best practice policies towards suppliers

• ensure travellers are given advice on how they can travel more responsibly

We make no grand claims for how these tours will change the world, but we do believe that they will change those who go on them and those who are visited by them.