Written by Jess Tyrrell

Your experience as a traveller will be shaped as much by where you travel as how you travel, and most importantly, how you travel will shape the impact that you have on a destination and its people. While exploring places old and new, your behaviour and choices have significant and untapped potential to contribute to positive change.

To realise this, we invite you to sign Viatu’s Responsible Traveller pledge, a practical set of guidelines on how to best embrace sustainable travel principles. By committing to these principles prior to your departure you will become a voice for sustainable travel and leave a lasting positive impact and impression on your host country and communities.

So, in a nutshell – and to borrow a page from Palau – make sure you tread lightly, act kindly and explore mindfully. If acting locally while thinking globally sounds appealing to you, join us on an adventure.