An eco-conscious journey begins before you’ve even left home and starts with the items you take with you and use on your trip. The goal should always be to reduce your consumption, ditch the frills, and try to leave as little waste in your path. Read on to discover innovative products to help reduce your impact during your travels.

South Africa aims to encourage inclusivity and purposeful transformation by mobilising sustainable tourism practices that address the socio-economic, cultural and environmental impacts of tourism. Here we explore how South Africa is cementing itself as a sustainable destination.

Compassion and tourism can go hand-in-hand, and both are crucial to building a healthy, inclusive and sustainable future for our world. This blog post explores several awarded tours and community and wildlife-related volunteer projects that you can get involved with on your next trip to South Africa.

Learn all the in's and out's of how Viatu chooses sustainable destinations for conscious adventurers! 🌎✈️

Wilderness Safaris is widely recognised as Africa’s foremost ecotourism operator. Travellers are given life-changing journeys in some of the most remote and pristine areas in Africa and, in doing so, help conserve Africa’s spectacular biodiversity and share ecotourism’s benefits with local people.

While meeting the needs of every guest, Onguma Safari Camps also serves its host community and natural environment through projects that develop the local community and protect the surrounding wildlife population.

Read Viatu’s comprehensive sustainability strategy right here.

African Monarch Lodges have placed themselves at the forefront of contemporary sustainable travel in Namibia. With a broad vision of empowering local communities and conservancies, they ensure that guest experiences are well managed to give back to the people and wildlife affected most by tourism.

With a staggering 300 days of sunshine each year, Namibia is a year-round travel destination. And although some may prefer to avoid the heat of high summer, it has tremendous solar energy-generation potential.

In this episode of Explained, we will highlight some of the animal species that national parks and community-conservation efforts in Namibia have played a crucial role in conserving, and where your best chances are of seeing them!

In recent years, overtourism has severely damaged local environments and communities. Enter sustainable tourism, the movement that respects local people, the traveller, cultural heritage, and the environment. So how can travel be sustainable? Read on to find out. 

‘Sustainability is our philosophy’ is Gondwana Collection’s core message. Their efforts span from wildlife conservation to water preservation and social awareness - making them a regenerative travel powerhouse.

Being environmentally friendly while still managing to travel may seem impossible to do, but we’ve got some tips that’ll make a world of difference.

To avoid negatively impacting the people and places we visit when travelling, we ought to practice being responsible and sustainable tourists, and this guide will show you how.