Responsible Travel
Everybody can be a responsible tourist when they travel with i-to-i, as responsible travel is at the very heart of what we do. We make meaningful travel experiences possible with our sustainable volunteer projects abroad which embrace community development, conservation, building and teaching projects across over 30 destinations.
We do everything we can to ensure that everybody who travels with us gets all the information, guidance and support they need to make a positive contribution while they volunteer overseas. We also only work with locally run and locally organised projects that are designed to have a positive long-term impact on communities abroad. Many commercial volunteer travel companies set up their own projects overseas to meet the demands of international volunteers. This isn't something we'd feel comfortable doing so the volunteer projects we work with have been set up by local communities, for the local community. They are wholly organic and have grown out of the genuine needs and demands of local communities.
When you volunteer overseas, you may come into contact with social differences that you do not always feel are right or morally agree with. As a travel organisation, we do not accept or condone certain cultural behaviours and work closely with local communities to lead by example and always seek to ensure we offer a caring and safe environment for our volunteers and the communities they benefit; responsible travel in the truest sense of the word.
