Responsible Travel & Contiki

Contiki is a founding partner of the non-profit Leading Travel Companies Conservation Foundation. So far, the Foundation has committed over US$2 million to help under-privileged communities & support sustainable tourism around the world.

Read more information about our foundation and the work it’s doing to help sustainable tourism around the world.

Responsible travel is about bringing you closer to local cultures & environments, involving & benefiting local people in tourism. We encourage you to give a little bit back to the special places & people you’ll encounter, through supporting community projects & NGO’s who care about conserving Asia’s natural & cultural heritage. We also employ Local Guides who will open your eyes to their cultures & ways of life, also earning a much needed income from you.

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Some of the things you’ll do in Asia with Contiki:

• Support the training and education of street kids in Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia when you eat in restaurants that have been created to help get youth off the streets and into a job, equipping them with both work & life skills.

• In Laos, those that need an artificial limb or support device, like a wheelchair, are helped by COPE (Co-operative Orthotic & Prosthetic Enterprise). We visit the COPE Centre, where visitors are educated about what happens to victims of unexploded objects, such as bombs, their support & rehabilitation.
  

• We have the opportunity to visit an orphanage in Cambodia run by an NGO mission & the local community & meet some of the children who are living there.

• Visit the Lao Elephant Camp which cares for elephants & supports it’s local community with employment opportunities & education about caring for their environment at the same time.
  
  

There are more ways to help, ask your Tour Manager for more information.

UNESCO & Contiki

We include visits to UNESCO World Heritage sites (hyperlink to contiki.com/worldheritagelist) in all our Contiki Asia itineraries, not just so you can enjoy visiting and learning about these unique places, but also because conservation counts. It’s why we’ve chosen to help UNESCO with their efforts by contributing significant funding towards their restoration work in Venice (through our involvement with The Leading Travel Companies Conservation Foundation). Look for the number of World Heritage sites that we visit on each tour page.