Responsible travel
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- See Sustainable travel for the ecological and appropriate technology dimension of travel sustainability.
A growing number of travelers want their journeys to be less invasive and more beneficial to the local community. They want to better understand the culture of the people they meet in the places they visit. Visitors should be mindful that we are entering a place that is someone else's home. Sounds complicated? Try this — imagine what irresponsible tourism looks like and then imagine its opposite.
UnderstandResponsible tourism has several goals: sustainability, environmental integrity, social justice and maximum local economic benefit.
OvertourismThey took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum, And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
Get inWhile nearly all forms of transport a traveler uses will release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, aircraft are especially notorious offenders and the aviation industry is the fastest-growing contributor to the…
DoCommunity-based tourism (CBT) is a form of sustainable development where small, rural communities set up accommodation and activities to generate tourism.
BuyIn developing countries, shopping for locally crafted souvenirs can be a good way to support communities. Check for labels; some souvenirs which look genuine might be manufactured somewhere else.
SleepLeave-no-trace camping is a responsible practice for outdoors enthusiasts.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Responsible travel" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI), CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons