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…

  1. Advance at least one of the UN’s 11 Global Goals (and be proven to do so)
  2. 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.

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Discover the touching stories of Middle Eastern and African refugees as they take you along a canal cruise, Amsterdam

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Discover the traditional art of Lao textiles at the women-owned and run Ock Pop Tok

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

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

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

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

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

Eat at Three Alliance on a MTM Experience in Cambodia

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

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Eat authentic food and empower local chefs at the ‘Bistro of Second Chances’, Sicily

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Help support education, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for the people of Africa's largest slum, Kenya

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Learn about desert life at the Omandumba Living Museum, Namibia

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

Planet

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

Zip Lining Costa Rica

Spend time with the SINAC organisation, learning about local trees – and planting them too, Costa Rica

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Learn rural tasks like how to train a sheep dog and crack a stock whip with this authentic New Zealand farm experience, New Zealand

Wildlife

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

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See how Elephant Nature Park in Thailand helps rehabilitate rescued elephants

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

Penguins At Boulders

Meet the penguins of South Africa and learn about Shark Warrior Adventure Centre’s conservation efforts, South Africa

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

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

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

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

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

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