Tangled World

No zoo in the Masai Mara

Many of travel industry colleagues in Kenya fought since late 2008 to stop a ‘cheetah zoo’ being built inside (of all places!) the Masai Mara. Building started quite a while ago, and even whilst conservationists and others fought to

Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

        In 1998 Ecuador’s largest tour operator and conservation-in-tourism pioneer, Metropolitan Touring, established Fundación Galápagos-Ecuador. This is the first ever initiative by tourism’s

A socially-responsible trek in Peru

Mountain Lodges of Peru wins international TO-DO contest Two years after the opening of the first trans-Andean lodge-to-lodge trek to Machu Picchu, Mountain Lodges of Peru (MLP)

A community camp in a World Heritage Site

   Kosi Bay in South Africa is at the very top of KwaZulu Natal’s east coast (Maputaland), just below the Mozambique border. It is

How do pigs help jungle otters?

Giant otters have happily made a recent return to Garzacocha Lake in the Ecuadorian Amazon.  Why? All thanks to pigs!  As part of their programme of social responsibility, La Selva Jungle

Indigenous people involved in tourism

Being in the tourism industry and specifically interested in responsible and ethical tourism, when I think of indigenous people and tourism I tend to think of specific cases of community-based tourism.  Two excellent examples of this are shown below