We Promote Responsible Tourism

We Promote Responsible Tourism

Responsible Tourism is all about ‘making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit.’ When we visit beautiful places, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our holidays have a positive impact on local people and their environments.

The Bodhi Tree is all about providing authentic holiday experiences that enable you to get a little bit more out of your travels, and give a little bit more back to the locality and the local people. At Bodhi we have always believed in inevitable simple guiding principles for the way in which we want to approach tourism.

• Every destination is someone else’s home. So, respect the people and the place.
• Even as we derive enjoyment from the facilities, we need to leave the destination as it is.
• Our interface with the local community should benefit it and enrich it.

The entire Bodhi Tree team strives to market holidays that have a greater and positive impact on local communities and their culture and living. As part of this ideology, you won’t find sparkling floors or costly painted walls in our office. We have designed our office with locally available materials like used wooden benches and chairs, coir carpets made by co-operative factories in Alleppey, un-flamboyant lighting etc. In addition, all our files and folders are made from recycled paper and the welcome kit for guests, that includes detailed itinerary, hotels vouchers etc., come in a recycled newspaper bag. We recycle as many materials as possible including paper, cardboard, printer cartridges, cans, plastic and tetra packs. We commit to being a ‘paperless’ office, except for essential documentation, and use both sides of paper before recycling. Printed materials are kept to a minimum and our business cards, awards etc are printed on recycled paper/card. Our business is 100% web-based. Moreover, we have a policy of using local suppliers wherever we can, so as to bring as much income to the local area as possible. We use local guides for sightseeing tours-you’ll discover more about local culture and lives, and they will earn an income. Remember that local people have different ways of thinking and concepts of time; this just makes them different not wrong. So, cultivate the habit of asking questions, rather than the Western habit of knowing the answers in advance. Join this drive to be proactive and give back to the local community and nature by doing your bit to this eco-friendly initiative called Responsible tourism.