Tour operator Responsible Travel has added five new tours and created a Nature Positive Map for customers to see how tourism is protecting wild spaces.
New ‘Travel Appetizers’ tours include three domestic trips as well as options in Kosovo and the Galapagos Islands.
A four-day stand-up paddleboard adventure on the River Wye with the chance to spot otters, kingfishers and deer and listen to local folklore starts from £658 per person.
A 14-day Grand Rail Tour of Scotland, from £2,595, features the Highlands and islands with local knowledge and support from guides when exploring Mull and Iona, Skye and Orkney.
Responsible Travel’s new Thames sailing barge holiday, over six days on a spritsail sailing barge of six-11 passengers, gives guests the chance to learn how to sail the boat, watch for wildlife and sketch or photograph the coast. It costs from £1,026.
Further afield, a Galapagos wildlife yacht safari with ecologist and BBC presenter Mike Dilger is on a mono-hull motor yacht with a maximum of 14 passengers. The eight-day trip, from £4,390, departs in April 2022 and excludes flights.
A seven-day Kosovo multi-activity holiday, from £795, includes tours to waterfalls and limestone peaks – with cave trekking, hiking and kayaking – as well as the country’s medieval villages, historic cities and rich culture.
The company’s Nature Positive Map allows visitors to read about some of the most important places on the planet – from key carbon sinks to the habitats of endangered orangutans – and how tourism is restoring, protecting and fighting for nature.
A spokeswoman said the operator would continue to add to the resource and said: “We’ve always believed that tourism has huge potential to protect the places worldwide we most rely on for climate stability and biodiversity.
“From community tourism projects in the Congo to reforesting UK native woodland, our new living map explores how some of the holidays we offer are actively helping to save the places – and wildlife – we can’t afford to lose.”
Meanwhile, Responsible Travel has had its first reviews since Covid after restarting tours in Thailand and Cuba.
“It’s been a long two years for communities dependent on international tourism,” the spokeswoman said. “Our partners have been delighted to welcome guests again.”
The operator also plans to mark World Wildlife Day (March 3); International Women’s Day (March 8) and International Day of Forests (March 21) next month.
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