Are You Interested In Responsible And Sustainable Tourism? – Here Are Reasons Why You Should Be.
What exactly is Responsible and Sustainable tourism? This is the kind of tourism that puts into consideration the environmental, social, and economic impression of touring.
This entails traveling in a way that conserves the environment, respects the cultures of hosts, and benefits the communities that are being visited.
This involves active decisions towards minimizing negative impact and maximizing constructive contribution to your destination of choice and the people in the destination. This is also supposed to capture the authentic travel experience of the tourist as well.
The world is headed in the direction where three things matter most globally. These things include:
- Humanity
- Environment
Every activity, investment, and organization is geared towards ensuring that service to humanity is of high quality, that nature is taken care of, and that in whatever is being done, at least profits are made.
Responsible and sustainable tourism is a summary of the above goals. When tourists are responsible, the environment is taken care of, communities in the country they visit are taken care of and the organizing operators are able to make profits that sustain the running of the companies.
Come Travel Kenya is committed to ensuring sustainable and responsible tourism at all levels. If this is one of your niches and interests, then here are seven solid reasons why you should keep going. The reasons can give you the basis for recruiting fellow tourists for this noble course.
Environmental Conservation
Working towards the betterment of the world for future posterity is a fulfilling cause. As a responsible tourist, you can participate in helping conserve nature by:
- Participating in civil campaigns against environmentally destructive habits like pollution, poaching, and cultural discrimination.
- Participating in the call for reducing waste by using biodegradable products during your visit.
- Donating towards the running and maintaining of conservancies and animal orphanages
- Adopting animals in orphanages.
Economic Benefits
Tourism is one of the biggest sources of income in some countries, especially in Africa and other developing countries. As a tourist, you can do the following to promote the economy of your destination.
- Promoting local businesses
- Buying art and artifacts from the locals
- Engaging local tour guides for the fee they charge
- Supporting the programs in the conservancy of destination
Cultural Appreciation
Responsible tourism encourages cultural appreciation. Respecting people’s cultures and traditional practices without judging or considering them savage is responsible. This helps in conserving the cultures for the future. You will love your children to learn about the Maasai of Kenya twenty years from now.
You can record videos and support documentation of such practices to conserve them. Who knows what the world will look like ten years from now?
Heightened Travel Experience.
Purposeful traveling is the most exciting. You not only have fun but participate in making your destinations better both environmentally and socially. Your economical input goes a long way in making someone’s life better. Is there a better inspiration for a vacation than this one?
So, when are you adopting an elephant from Kenya? Contact Come Travel Kenya to help you practice Responsible and Sustainable Tourism.
WRITER: Emily Wekulo
