WHAT IS ORIGINAL TRAVEL STANCE ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM?
As you’d expect from a company that came about because of its founders’ love of exploring the world, experiencing different cultures, and admiring foreign landscapes, Original Travel feels strongly that tourism can and should benefit countries and peoples. Original Travel is a member of the Responsible Tourism scheme of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO), from which we have gained two stars for our practices. With a range of destinations as wide as ours – from ski slopes to sand dunes, from Madeira to Mozambique, France to Franschhoek and Lamu to Lima – come a wide range of conservation and community-related challenges, many of which are being addressed locally, for example: in Morocco, the Kasbah Du Toubkal in the High Atlas mountains was restored in conjunction with the Berber people of the nearby Imlil valley, using local labour and traditional methods, and is now run by staff from the Ait Mizane tribe in the surrounding villages. In the Amazon rainforest of Ecuado
