Responsible tourism

Through responsible practices, tourists and tourism businesses can minimize their negative footprint of tourism on the environment and increase employment and income opportunities for local communities.

The resources below provide you with useful tips information that can help your holiday make a difference to those communities you will meet on your journey in the Himalaya.

For responsible travel information most relevant to a visit to the Nepal Himalaya, please visit responsibletravelnepal.com. Also useful is the travel community website exoticbuddha.com.

For more general information, please see the World Tourism Organisation’s code of conduct (10KB pdf), and the UN Environment Programme’s tips for travelling with less environmental impact.

Kathmandu Environment Education Project (KEEP)

KEEP Nepal is an organisation based in Kathmandu. KEEP’s website is a very useful, up-to-date and well organised information source. We strongly recommend you to visit it!

http://www.keepnepal.org/