ETHICAL TRAVEL

What Ethical Travel Means to Us

We acknowledge that global travel has significant sustainability shortcomings and we do our best to minimize our impact

Our trips are imbued with a cultural consciousness informed by an awareness of the intersections of climate, cultural ethnicity, racial identity, socio-economic class, gender, global imperialism, colonization, resource extraction, and indigenous sovereignty
We truly are all connected
And this connection comes with responsibilities, which we take very seriously

We research the history, political challenges, peculiarities, and raw beauty of every region
With an emphasis on the women’s history of our host country

And we listen
To the locals, to our international female partners, and to the everyday workers of every place we go

We seek first to do no harm
We do not travel where our impact is causing damage and the locals do not want us
We support local restrictions on over tourism
We travel softly and in small numbers - this is the main reason we set our tour maximum at 10 guests

We stay in environmentally low-impact and locally owned hotels wherever possible

We never use AirBNB
This company directly contributes to the loss of worker housing across the globe, and we support local regulations to ban short term rentals

We partner with local female guides and suppliers who are mindful of the sustainability needs of their region’s people and ecology

We prioritize the purchase of locally and especially indigenous-made goods

As a women-led and focused organization, we seek out the same in our international partners

To counter our carbon impact
For every tour we run, we pledge 5% of our profit to One Tree Planted - The highest profit pledge in the industry

Measurable Outcomes

To date: Our tours have planted 5,076 trees world wide as part of One Tree Planted’s Womens Empowerment Fund

“The Women's Empowerment Fund for Reforestation was established to address two critical objectives: promoting environmental sustainability through reforestation, and advancing gender equity by empowering women in leadership roles within the environmental sector. The fund emphasizes supporting reforestation projects that have the highest need of funding and actively involve women at all levels of decision-making and implementation.”

  • By 2050, climate change may push up to 158 million more women and girls into poverty.

As climate change pushes millions of women into poverty, UN Women calls for a new feminist climate justice approach, UN Women

  • If all women smallholders receive equal access to productive resources, their farm yields could rise by 20-30%.

Facts & Figures, UN Women