After nearly five years of offering world-class adventures, trips, and tours, we know better than anyone how inspiring, enriching, and horizon-expanding travel can be. At Tunqui Expeditions, we strongly believe that travel should also improve the lives of the people and places we visit.
That’s why our People, Places, and Planet plan outlines the ways in which we persistently and passionately strive to improve lives through travel: the places we explore, the people we meet, and the planet we cherish. This includes our commitment to ensuring that our adventures are Nature Positive – giving back far more to the planet and its ecosystems than we take.
Scroll down to view our Tunqui sustainability reports.
Click below to learn more about the two key pillars of our People, Places, and Planet plan:
Economic empowerment for local communities and marginalized groups
Job opportunities for local residents and those who need them most
Promoting and supporting gender equality worldwide
Educational opportunities, even in the most remote parts of the world
Highest standards in child protection
Preserving traditional and cultural heritage
Disaster relief efforts to support our destinations in times of crisis
Our Trips
We strive to support local businesses (guides, accommodations, food establishments, and experiences), which not only boosts the local economy but also makes our trips more meaningful.
Wherever possible, our tours visit and contribute to community cooperatives and local social enterprises.
We actively promote human rights and equality in all our travels, maintaining high welfare standards for our guides and porters.
We avoid (and when necessary, actively remove) artificial cultural experiences that do not respect local communities.
Instead, we actively support the preservation of cultural and traditional heritage through our itineraries and expert local guides.
We adhere to a strict child protection policy, meaning we do not engage in orphanage tourism and limit school visits.
We are also part of the ABTA Orphanage Tourism Task Force, which covers the entire sector.
For more information on how each of our trips supports local communities, look for the Sustainable Travel section in our trip notes.
Helping our destination communities recover and rebuild after the impact of COVID-19
Providing educational experiences for underprivileged children to help them learn about their own cultural and natural heritage
Training porters and offering scholarships for guides in Cusco
Supporting grassroots initiatives for hard-to-reach communities in the Sacred Valley
Ensuring all our Inca Trail porters get to visit Machu Picchu themselves
Our Nature Positive Commitment, which includes:
Reducing our carbon footprint by 50% by 2030
Rebuilding 100 square meters of natural habitat for every passenger
Investing directly in projects that support carbon removal and nature restoration
Eliminating single-use plastics
Upholding the highest standards of animal welfare
Supporting nature restoration through our trips and ongoing commitment
We take a Nature Positive approach in all our adventures—putting nature conservation and biodiversity restoration at the center of our decision-making, travel design, and community engagement.
Our People, Places, and Planet plan works to improve lives through travel: for the places we visit on our adventures, the people we meet along the way, and the planet that welcomes us. Here, we outline the Places & Planet pillar of our plan.
Our planet is facing unprecedented challenges—not only the climate crisis but also the collapse of biodiversity. The unique ecosystems we continue to explore on our adventures are vital to the survival of our global society, yet they are increasingly under threat.
Placing nature and biodiversity restoration at the center of our decision-making, travel design, and work in local communities
Ensuring that everything we do not only reduces negative impacts but actively supports the regeneration of nature
Travel still has an impact through carbon emissions, waste, pollution, and ecosystem exploitation
We seek to eliminate and reduce these negative impacts while compensating for them through our efforts to restore nature whenever possible
Our trips already avoid and reduce some of the worst tourism impacts on nature – for example, our use of eco-lodges and hotels with lower environmental footprints and our strict animal welfare policy.
We contribute to nature regeneration by committing to reforestation and supporting local conservation efforts during our trips.
We always seek to expand these efforts significantly, including ambitious carbon management, waste reduction, and biodiversity restoration goals.
At Tunqui Expeditions, we are committed to ensuring that our adventures contribute to a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving planet.
