It’s that time of year again. 27 September is World Tourism Day, where we celebrate everything to do with travel. Things are a little different this year, but that won’t stop us. We live in an everchanging world, where issues of sustainable travel and animal welfare are becoming important...
Posts Tagged with Responsible Tourism
We take ‘responsible tourism’ seriously at On The Go Tours, making sure that the people and the communities that we visit on our travels reap the rewards from the tourism that we generate in their areas.
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The Wild Tiger Challenge: Promote the cause!
We’ve teamed up with online conservation initiative Tiger Nation for the launch of the ‘Wild Tiger Challenge’ a custom-built app on Facebook which raises the profile of India’s tigers and tiger conservation in India. Read on to find out more! What is Tiger Nation? Tiger Nation uses ID technology,...
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Top 10 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest (4 minute read)
The Amazon is synonymous with South America. It’s the largest of the rainforests, supporting a huge number of plants and animals and hugely important to our own survival. Taking up most of the Amazon Basin, the Amazon rainforest is mostly contained within Brazil and stretches into Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and smaller parts of...
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Tiger update from India
On The Go Tours supports a range of local organisations in the destinations that we visit. One of them is TOFT (Travel Operators for Tigers) which ensures that the local environmental efforts in India to conserve these amazing animals are sustained and successful. Here’s an update from three of...
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A sustainable approach to tourism
At On The Go Tours we take the issue of responsible tourism very seriously, and we try to ensure that the countries that we visit benefit from tourism. Travel should be a rewarding experience, not just for the tourist, but also for the local people that we encounter. One...
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India’s Tiger – A phoenix rising thanks to tourism
I hosted a prestigious lecture a couple of years ago, as the Founder of Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT), by an eminent Tiger biologist and he had got me thinking. “Even today,” he had said, “With well over 200,000 square km of forests still left in India, and at a...
