We are socially responsible ethical local tour operator; all our trips connect with local communities, people and places while supporting socially responsible and purposeful travel. Our core value is to positively change the life of the mountain people and help them transform into a prosperous and happy community. . We’re changing the way travel impacts local communities. We engage and support local community projects to improve Education, Health, Community tourism, Agriculture, Trail Building and Tourism Infrastructure Development.
So as a practitioner and advocate of responsible sustainable business, we have adopted the following guidelines and policy:
- We respect different cultures, religions , language , custom and traditions of the local communities where we organize our trips
- We employ local staff from local communities; this will directly create local employment and support local economy.
- As most of our trips are authentic , we encourage our clients to interact with the local communities to understand better .
- We have fair employment practices and fair wage of our employee.
- We encourage our clients to purchase from local markets and social enterprises to support local economy and services.
- We don’t support child labor in any of the areas, trips and office we work.
- We support woman and indigenous people equality. We give priority to Woman and indigenous community people to work with us in terms of employment, support those enterprise for empowerment.
- We support Animal right and oppose any sort of animal cruelty. We don’t do trips that directly harm animal for e.g Our trips doesn’t involve animal rides etc ( like we don’t support elephant
ride in Chitwan ) - We support environment friendly trips, conservation and issue that directly impact the environment and ecosystem of the communities and places we run our trips . We don’t allow our clients to use non-degradable products like plastic , glass etc during the trip . We use vehicles and transports that are eco-friendly during our trips .
- We give back to the communities where we organize our trips , we support local NGO that have been working relentlessly for the development . We support these organizations from part of our profit .
Rural Empowerment and Development initiative Nepal (READI Nepal)
Every time you travel with us we give 10% to this organization.This partially pays for the education of 82 underprivileged children.
HEROES FROM NEPAL: 10 QUESTIONS TO RAKESH SHAHI
Read our founder Rakesh Shahi effort of relief distribution and helping communities affected by Nepal Earthquake 2015