Travel While Doing Good
As we continuously create authentic travel experiences, we also keep responsible travel at heart—empowering communities through our products, and empowering our clients to be a part of the solution in preserving traditions, supporting communities, and protecting the environment across Asia.
Go Local Experiences
We’ve prepared a range of must-have experiences for explorers who want to get a truly authentic immersion. In partnership with local communities and groups, you’ll discover an Asia like no other on your journey.
We Care for Animal Welfare
Many of the experiences we offer involve watching or interacting with animals, and while these can have social, economic, environmental and educational benefits, we’re fully committed to the protection of animals to create a truly positive experience for you.
Our ethical animal programmes include:
- Committing to protecting animals and wildlife in the region.
- ‘Stop sell’ on all tours that involve elephant riding and reviewing all other products that involve animals.
- Working with partners that align with our stance and actions on animal welfare.
Partner Communities
We work with communities and organisations across Asia, from non-government organisations to indigenous communities to empower them and help in the preservation of their intangible cultural heritage.
Our other partners include:
- PHARE Circus: a troupe which employs alumni of Phare Ponleu Selpak (PPSA), a non-profit arts school in Battambang, Cambodia, providing underprivileged children and young adults with artistic education and vocational training.
- Living Land Farm: a community enterprise in Luang Prabang, Laos, founded by locals who wanted to make better use of their land, eventually turning it into a community farm and craft centre.
- Jungle School Gombak: a leadership experiential program that empowers the people of Gombak, Malaysia to share their cultural knowledge and expertise.
- Hang Kia Commune: A mountain community in Vietnam that houses the Mong Ethnic Minority.
- Ock Pop Tok Living Crafts Centre: A textile and artisan institution in Laos, founded on the principles of fair trade and sustainable business practices.
- Kaiphaen Restaurant by TREE: A training restaurant that employs underprivileged Laotians and turns them into world-class, skilled, hospitality personnel.
- Pour un Sourire d’Enfant: A Cambodian non-government organisation dedicated to the welfare of underprivileged children.
- And so many more!
Corporate Social Responsibility Activities
We also participate in and mount activities as part of our corporate social responsibility. These programmes include food drives, trash collection, marathons, and more, all geared towards welcoming explorers and locals alike to a better Asia. We support initiatives and groups such as:
- Pencils for Kids: An organisation dedicated to helping children in developing countries attend school. We’ve been supporting their missions across Thailand, to provide school supplies for underprivileged children. Most recently, we sponsored a charity golf classic to raise funds for one of their missions.
- Laos Friends Hospital for Children: DTH Travel joined the hospital’s half-marathon to support its cause in raising awareness for the important work it does, providing medical care for children in Laos.
- Bangaan Elementary School: A school in Nueva Viscaya, Philippines. They’re one of the recipients of DTH Travel’s donations, both monetary and in kind, from weekly soup kitchen programs and more, to keep its undernourished kids healthy.
Sustainable Practices in Offices
We believe in putting our advocacy in practice even in the little things, so our commitment to sustainability also translates to our office policies—from waste management, eco-friendly fixtures, to daily office-wide Earth hours. Our actions include:
- Partnering with local social enterprises: such as Mad Travel, Rags2Riches, House With No Steps, and Bambike to support the marginalised communities they employ.
- Ensuring sustainability even in corporate giveaways: we prioritise working with eco-friendly suppliers and small businesses that support local communities.
- Waste Management: we do our best to segregate and recycle waste such as paper, glass, and aluminium.
- Eco-Friendly Fixtures: as much as possible, we opt for energy-saving tech and rely mostly on natural light.
- Office-wide Earth Hours: we encourage our team to switch off the lights, while they’re out for lunch, and always after they leave their desk at the end of a working day.
- Reduction of Single-Use Plastics: we provide reusable cutlery and glasses in our office to cut back on plastic waste.