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Responsible travel

Respect and protect the world

Overview

Life above and below water is in crisis. Nowhere more so than in the destinations we hold particularly close to our hearts. We believe the answer to delivering meaningful change will come through educating ourselves, our children and our grandchildren on conserving and protecting our planet’s rich cultural and bio diversity.

Responsible travel goes deeper than reducing a trip’s carbon footprint. There’s a lot to do. This is one journey we are fully committed to going on.

Our purpose: To enrich both the people who travel with us and the places we visit so that generations to come can enjoy the world in all its radiance.

Inspiring good citizens

In 1988, we founded our sister company, Discover the World Education. Our school trips are designed to inspire respect for the communities we visit and educate students on the need for sustainable growth, sparking a desire to conserve and protect the World’s wildlife and habitats.

Discover the World bursary fund

We believe that all students should benefit from educational travel, whatever their background. That’s why a percentage of revenue from your holiday, goes into our Education Bursary Fund. Run in partnership with the Geographical Association, it means that at least 30 students who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity can join one of our school trips abroad. If you wish to donate more towards this cause, speak with your travel specialist.

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Discover the World: School Woodland Project

Closer to home, we are working with schools to plant new woodlands and re-wild school land, funded by donations from ourselves and the schools we work with. The Greener Growth scheme sources young trees from prisoners growing heritage native trees in prison nurseries. If you wish to donate more towards this cause, speak with your travel specialist.

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We walk the talk

Education starts at home. And we believe in practising what we preach. We are fully committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We have mapped a set of transparent, actionable stepping stones, gaining standards from Feefo’s industry accreditation body Ethy. As we take each step and after achieving rigorous criteria we are awarded clear ecolabels to demonstrate our commitment to a more sustainable world.

We share Feefo’s values, aiming for a stable climate, abundant biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, a clean planet, healthy and thriving communities and circular business models that responsibly use our precious resources.

Conscious travel

Our experts have developed a selection of rail holidays designed to reduce your carbon footprint and its impact on climate change – not to mention a more rewarding, less stressful alternative to flying. All our trips can be tailored to you, from innovative travel choices to selecting the most eco-friendly suppliers. And on every trip, you can use the World Land Trust Carbon Calculator to reduce your footprint even more.

Start as we mean to go on

Having operated the very first whale-watching trips in Iceland back in 1993, our founder Clive couldn’t take the issue of whaling lightly. In our campaign to end whaling in Iceland we support the Iceland Nature Conservation Association (INCA).

Established in 1997, INCA is a conservation NGO with the primary objective of conserving and protecting the wilderness of Iceland. In 2007, Árni Finnsson, chair of INCA’s board, was awarded the Animal Action Award, for his role in whale conservation.

Clive Stacey, Managing Director and Co-founder I am no scientist, but I have had an interest in sustainability for most of my adult life. I care deeply about what can be done to protect and preserve our planet for future generations
Clive Stacey, Managing Director and Co-founder