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MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® EXPERIENCES

MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences help you give something back to the people, wildlife or places that you visit. They’re available across many of our trips, and we’re committed to having a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER ® experience on at least 50% of our trips by 2025.

These experiences are chosen with care, for travellers who care to make a difference.

Each MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience meets criteria set out in the UN’s 11 Global Goals.

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How do we choose our MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences?

Each MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience is rated against rigorous criteria (and boy do we mean rigorous.) Every experience must…

Advance at least one of the UN’s 11 Global Goals (and be proven to do so)
Be educational to travellers

Find some examples below (available across 6 continents)

💟 People 🧕🏾

Respecting cultures. Championing heritage. We aim to work closely with each and every local community we visit.

Meet the inspiring women of the Iraq Al-Amir Women's Cooperative Society, Amman

Gain a new perspective on a Berlin walking tour led by a Syrian refugee, Berlin

Explore an urban art gallery unlike any other on the streets of Cascais, Lisbon

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Meet the inspiring woman of the Iraq Al-Amir Women's Corporative Society on a MTM experience

Group of travellers on a MTM Experience led by a Syrian Refugee in Berlin, Germany

Group of travellers on a MTM experience walking tour in Cascais, Lisbon

Learn how to be a Gondilieri and work with a female-owned non-profit, Venice

Buy crafts from the Dhonk centre and help turn the tide on tiger poaching, India

Visit the COPE centre, a lifeline for those suffering with physical disabilities, Laos

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Group of travellers on a MTM experience in Venice, Italy

Buy crafts at the Dhonk centre on a MTM Experience in India

Visit COPE a centre helping those with disabilities on a MTM experience in Laos

Eat at TREE Alliance, a restaurant that trains former street kids in hospitality, Cambodia

Help provide bicycles for children with Wheels for Change, USA

Dine at Habibi & Hawara and help train staff with refugee backgrounds in the art of entrepreneurship, Austria

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Eat at Three Alliance on a MTM Experience in Cambodia

Help provide bikes and empower kids with Wheels for Change, USA

Dine at Habibi & Hawara on a MTM experience in Viena, Austria

Help reduce inequalities for underrepresented groups with Second Harvest Food Bank, USA

Support homeless and at-risk people at DC Central Kitchen Brown Bag Lunch, USA

Meet the female weavers who preserve vibrant local traditions at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales, Peru

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Help reduce inequality on a MTM experience with Second Harvest Food Bank, USA

Support the locals on a MTM experience in DC, USA

Meet the female weavers on a MTM experience at the Centro Textiles Tradicionales, Peru

Visit an indigenous community in Tena & meet their shaman, Ecuador

Try your hand at indigenous craft & bush medicine with your Aboriginal hosts from Pudakul, Darwin

Discover the ancient living art of Anangu Dot Painting with Maruku Arts, Western Australia

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Visit the indigenous community on a MTM experience in Tena, Ecuador

Group of travellers with Aboriginal hosts on a MTM Experience in Darwin, Australia

Discover the art of Anangu Dot Painting on a MTM Experience in Darwin, Australia

Buy a lunch from Eat My Lunch & donate a second lunch to a schoolkid in need, Auckland

Discover a local township with a local guide in Cape Town, South Africa

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Group of travellers on a MTM Experience in Auckland, New Zealand

Group of travellers on a guided tour in Cape Town, South Africa

Learn about desert life at the Omandumba Living Museum, Namibia

Join Cree Knowledge Keeper Matricia on a fascinating journey through the Plant Medicine World of Jasper Nat. Park, Canada

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Group of travellers on a MTM experience in Namibia

Get to know Matricia on a Plant walking tour in Jasper Nat. Park, Canada

💚 Planet 🌏

From reforestation to sustainable food production, here’s how you can join forces with those working to preserve our mighty planet.

Visit the Green Bronx machine and learn all about sustainable food experiences, USA

Visit an authentic working farm and learn all about their sustainable practices, Australia

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Green Bronx MTM experience in USA

Visit authentic Aussie working farm Hosanna, Australia

💙 Wildlife 🐼

Helping you witness the wildlife you love in an ethical way, while also doing your bit to protect at-risk species from extinction.

Help rehabilitate rescued elephants at the Elephant Nature Park, Thailand

See baby turtles released into the wild at the Kosgoda Centre, Sri Lanka

Meet cute and cuddly giant pandas at the Chengdu Panda Base, China

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Help give rescue elephants a chance at rehabilitation at the Elephant Nature Park, Thailand

Baby turtles released into the wild at the Kosgoda Centre, Sri Lanka

Meet cute giant pandas in their natural habitat-like setting at the Chengdu Panda Base, China

Witness baby turtles being released into the wild at the Sea Turtle Conservancy, Costa Rica

See injured and orphaned koalas in recovery at Bungalow Bay sanctuary, Magnetic Island.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of a Kiwi conservation & hatching project at Rainbow Springs Kiwi Encounter, Rotorua

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Witness baby turtles being released into the wild at the Sea Turtle Conservancy, Costa Rica

See how injured and orphaned koalas are recovering at Bungalow Bay sanctuary, Magnetic Island.

Kiwi bird conservation & hatching project at Rainbow Springs Kiwi Encounter, Rotorua

Learn how ProTrack rangers protect the Big Five from poaching, South Africa

Meet the rescued baby elephants of David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Kenya

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Learn how these ProTrack rangers protect the Big Five from poaching, South Africa

Meet rescued baby elephants being rehabilitated at David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Kenya

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