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MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences

MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences are conscious travel experiences available on our trips. MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences are chosen with great care based on the positive social or environmental impact they have on their communities and those who experience them.

Using a proprietary assessment tool endorsed by industry experts and developed exclusively for us, MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences are assessed against a robust set of criteria directly tied to the UN Global Goals.

These experiences are rated against a set of criteria to identify the ways in which they advance the 11 Global Goals of our sustainability strategy. We’re committed to integrating at least one MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience across 50% of itineraries by 2025.

Make Travel Matter Experience, meeting monks in Cambodia

What can travelers expect?

Amazing travel experiences that you can trust have a positive impact on the people and places you visit with Contiki.

MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences seeks to encourage the greatest community benefit from travel and tourism, while in turn educating travelers on the Global Goals and the way that daily action can support them. By participating in a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience our travelers will be educated on pressing global issues and local community actions being taken to address them.

How are MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences chosen?

Using our Make Travel Matter E-Assessment, travel experiences will be rated against a set of rigorous criteria, selected from the Global Indicator Framework for the Global Goals, in order to identify the ways in which they advance the 11 Global Goals that our sustainability strategy prioritizes. These criteria also account for the educational component of the experience that is vital in helping travelers become aware of their global citizenship. We are committed to integrating at least one MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience across 50% of all itineraries by 2025.

Here are some of the incredible MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experiences you can do with us to support People, Planet, Wildlife.

People

Respecting local cultures and championing traditional heritage, we work together with the local communities and artisans 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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Make Travel Matter Experience, meeting with the women of Iraq Al-Amir Women's Cooperative Society in Amman

Make Travel Matter Experience, a Berlin walking tour led by a Syrian refugee, Germany

Make Travel Matter Experience, exploring an urban art gallery on the streets of Cascais, Lisbon

Learn how to be a Gondilieri with a non-profit organization of passionate female vogatrici, 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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Make Travel Matter Experience, learning how to be a Gondilieri, Venice

Make Travel Matter Experience, buying crafts from the Dhonk centre, India

Make Travel Matter, travellers visiting the COPE centre in Laos

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

Use your spare change to help provide bicycle and empower kids with Wheels for Change, USA

Dine at Habibi & Hawara in Vienna, supporting their mission to train staff with refugee backgrounds to become successful entrepreneurs, Austria

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Make Travel Matter Experience, eating at TREE Alliance restaurant, Cambodia

Make Travel Matter Experience, Wheels for Change, USA

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 preserving vibrant local traditions at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales, Peru

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Make Travel Matter Experience, Second Harvest Food Bank, USA

Make Travel Matter Experience, supporting homeless and at risk people at DC Central Kitchen Brown Bag Lunch, USA

Make Travel Matter, traditional weaving experience in 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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Make Travel Matter Experience, visiting an indigenous community in Tena, Ecuador

Make Travel Matter Experience, discovering indigenous craft and bush medicine with the Aboriginal hosts from Pudakul, Darwin

Make Travel Matter Experience, discovering the ancient living art of Anangu Dot Painting with Maruku Arts, Western Australia

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

Help hand out Heart Parcels food to the city’s homeless for an evening, Wellington

Let a resident guide you around a side of Cape Town few travelers get to see, at a local township, South Africa

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Make Travel Matter Experience, buying a lunch from Eat My Lunch and donating a second lunch to a schoolkid in need, Auckland

Make Travel Matter Experiences, handing out Heart Parcels food to the city’s homeless, Wellington

Make Travel Matter Experience, travelling around Cape Town, South Africa

Learn the ways and customs of living in the harsh Namibian landscape at Omandumba Living Museum, Namibia

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

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Make Travel Matter Experience, learning the ways and customs of living in the harsh Namibian landscape at Omandumba Living Museum, Namibia

Planet

Learn how innovative organizations are tackling issues that affect the health of our planet - from reforestation to strengthening sustainable food systems.