CHAPTER 15

Sustainable Travel for Social Good: The Altruvistas Journeys Model1v

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time.But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

—Lila Watson

Imagine if communities worldwide retained 50 to 70 percent of the tour package costs, what that would contribute to protect bioreserves, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and national parks as well as to build schools and hospitals in the surrounding community’s infrastructure? Imagine the shift that could be made in the well-being of the 73 percent of the world’s population that lack basic necessities. The travel industry needs to embrace a vision of tourism that addresses equity systemically. The experience ...

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