Our Responsible Tourism Policy

The following are Big Planet Adventures' key principles for operating its tours and business in an environmentally and socially responsible way.

• Use locally owned infrastructure for accommodation and transport where possible.
• Spread the financial benefits amongst local people and operators.
• Provide employment and leadership opportunities for local people.
• Respect local customs and culture.
• Provide safe trips for our staff and travellers.
• Educate travellers and our operators about how and why we choose to travel this way.
• Limit the negative impacts to daily lifestyles of local people not involved with our groups.
• Limit the physical impact of trips in all destination communities - particularly sensitive natural and cultural environments.
• Provide support to organisations and local communities visited by our groups.
• Provide fun enjoyable trips to our travellers.
• Provide opportunities for travellers to interact with local people.
• Actively ban leader and passenger participation in or endorsement of commercial sexual activities or illegal drug use on our trips.
• Actively discourage the participation of our groups in activities which exploit animals - wild or domestic.
• Use local operators that adhere to Big Planet Adventures' Responsible Travel Philosophies and provide the best possible service to our travellers and staff.
• Work to prevent the exploitation of children in tourism.
• Support and encourage fair employment practices.
• Give our travellers the best possible value.