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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.
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?
Here are some of the incredible MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experiences you can do with us to support People, Planet, Wildlife.
People
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Meet the inspiring women of the Iraq Al-Amir Women's Cooperative Society, Amman
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Gain a new perspective on a Berlin walking tour led by a Syrian refugee, Berlin
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Explore an urban art gallery unlike any other on the streets of Cascais, Lisbon
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Learn how to be a Gondilieri with a non-profit organisation of passionate female vogatrici, Venice
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Buy crafts from the Dhonk centre and help turn the tide on tiger poaching, India
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Visit the COPE centre, a lifeline for those suffering with physical disabilities, Laos
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Eat at TREE Alliance, a restaurant that trains former street kids in hospitality, Cambodia
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Learn about Indigenous heritage art at the Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School, Canada
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Use your spare change to help provide bicycle and empower kids with Wheels for Change, USA
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Help reduce inequalities for underrepresented groups with Second Harvest Food Bank, USA
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Support homeless and at risk people at DC Central Kitchen Brown Bag Lunch, USA
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Meet the female weavers preserving vibrant local traditions at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales, Peru
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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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See the immense pride the Djabugay people take in demonstrating their culture at Tjapukai, Queensland
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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 hand out Heart Parcels food to the city’s homeless for an evening, Wellington
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Learn about Tikanga and Kawa, Māori customs and protocols, while staying at a traditional marae, Rotorua
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Let a resident guide you around a side of Cape Town few travellers get to see, at a local township, South Africa
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Learn the ways and customs of living in the harsh Namibian landscape at Omandumba Living Museum, Namibia
Planet
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Leave your mark by planting 5 trees in the Haukadalur valley, Iceland
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See how the Green Bronx machine teaches about sustainable food experiences, USA
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Learn about the climate impact on the Great Barrier Reef at a Reef HQ Experience, Queensland
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Take 3 for the sea’ and help keep Bondi Beach free of plastic & litter, Sydney
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Enjoy a fresh farm-to-table meal with all ingredients sourced from the surrounding bush at Blue Duck Station, Mt Ruapehu
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Take an underwater observatory tour with a marine biologist and learn about marine conservation, Marlborough Sounds
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Visit the furry residents of Gut Aiderbichl, a sanctuary for aging farm animals
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Help give rescue elephants a chance at rehabilitation at the Elephant Nature Park, Thailand
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See baby turtles released into the wild at the Kosgoda Centre, Sri Lanka
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Meet cute giant pandas in their natural habitat-like setting at the Chengdu Panda Base, China
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Witness baby turtles being released into the wild at the Sea Turtle Conservancy, Costa Rica
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See how injured and orphaned koalas are recovering at Bungalow Bay sanctuary, Magnetic Island.
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Take a behind the scenes tour of a Kiwi bird conservation & hatching project at Rainbow Springs Kiwi Encounter, Rotorua
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Learn about the wildlife recovery programme at Lochmara on a guided conservation tour, Marlborough Sounds
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Learn about the Giraffe Centre's efforts to protect the world's tallest animal, Kenya
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Learn how these ProTrack rangers protect the Big Five from poaching, South Africa
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Meet rescued baby elephants being rehabilitated at David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Kenya