Check out these photos from our Walking With Lions tour in Antelope Park, Gweru. The pictures really speak for themselves. The chance to get this close to big cats on safari is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and supports a critical conservation project. Stroll through the veld –...
Tag: 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.
Costa Rica – a visual journey
For nature lovers, sun worshippers, photographers, surfers and beach bums alike, Costa Rica is something of a paradise – and comparatively unspoilt. Large areas of the country are still covered in lush rainforest criss-crossed with inland waterways and stocked with a huge variety of wildlife, and...
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...
Top 10 facts about the Amazon Rainforest
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,...
Make a change with Picture the Difference photography competition
Picture the Difference is a new photography competition held in aid of ActionAid, and in conjunction with Bob Books, Powell Allen and On the Go Tours. ActionAid is a charity that works to alleviate poverty and injustice throughout the world. Focussing on supporting the poorest and...
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...
On The Go Tours nominated for two TNT Magazine Travel Awards.
Happy news! Not only is the sun beginning to peek out from behind the clouds here in foggy London town, but it turns out we’ve nominated for two TNT Magazine Travel Awards! The categories that we’ve been nominated for are Best Tour Itinerary (for our...
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...
Giving something back
Working in travel can be a double edged sword sometimes – the effect of tourism on places can be good in terms of the money coming in to the area but can also change the areas we travel to, not always in a good way (places...
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,...