Travel Choice

List of the existing Ecotourism Enterprises and their service location

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About Travel Choice

 Your Travel Choice Makes a Difference

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Find an Eco-Trip

Here's how!

By choosing responsible travel, you can have the fabulous vacation that you've dreamed of, while ensuring that your dollars are benefiting the environment and the local people at your destination.

What is Responsible Travel?   
Five Easy Steps   
Helpful Internet Resources   
What You Can Do While Traveling   
"Green-Washing"   
Flying Responsibly  
Responsible Travel Myths   
What is Certification?   
Travelers' Phlanthropy

What is Responsible Travel?

Responsible travel is travel with a purpose. When choosing destinations, accommodations, and tour operators, consider which ones work to protect the environment and benefit local cultures and communities.

Who Travels Responsibly?

Anyone can be a responsible traveler! You can get back to nature, or bathe in luxury...  hike into the rainforest, or explore the city... stay close to home, or travel to the exotic location of your dreams. Responsible travel provides many options and is often very affordable.

Five Easy Steps: Planning Your Trip

Making informed choices before and during your trip is the single most important thing you can do to become a responsible traveler. With a little planning, you can improve the quality of your trip, while making a real difference to the people and places you visit.

1. Search the web: Look for websites specializing in responsible travel, ecotourism, or sustainable tourism.

2. Consult guidebooks: Choose guidebooks with information on your destination's environmental, social and political issues, and read before booking. Guidebooks vary in quality, even within a series, but Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and Moon are among the best.

3. Make contact: Call or email tour operators that have firsthand knowledge of the place you are considering visiting. Check the websites of all accommodations.

4. Ask questions: Let tour operators/hotels know that you are a responsible consumer. Before you book, ask about their social and environmental policies. For instance: What is your environmental policy? What percentage of your employees are local citizens? Do you support any projects to benefit the local community?

5. Choose wisely: Are the businesses you're considering certified? Do they have eco-label ratings, or have they won eco-awards?

Helpful Internet Resources (working..)

Travel Choice

Your travel choice makes a difference

Travel to amazing destinations and immerse yourself in another culture, while traveling in a way that conserves the environment and supports the livelihoods of the local populations. EFB members around the country, region and globe have been working to create destinations, lodges and tours that can challenge and fulfill your passions.

The ability to search Travel Choice is powered by a new system. Over the next few weeks EFB members will be updating their area of operation which will increase the number of search results. As it is a new system, please email us if you have any problems or questions travel@ecotourismbd.org

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