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Tour operators with porter's policies
UK tour operators with policies on porters' rights and working conditions (last updated updated June 2009):
• Acacia Adventure Holidays
• Action Challenge UK Ltd
• Adventure Alternative
• Afica Exclusive
• Andean Trails
• Audley Travel
• Austral Tours
• Baobab Travel
• Charity Challenge
• Classic Journeys
• Community Action Treks
• Dragoman Adventure Holidays
• East African Adventures
• Exodus Travels
• Explore Worldwide
• Far Frontiers
• Footprint Adventures
• Gane and Marshall
• High Places
• Himalayan Kingdoms
• The Imaginative Traveller
• IntoAfrica UK
• Intredpid Travel Pty Ltd
• Jagged Globe
• Journey Latin America
• KE Adventure Travel
• The Mountain Company
• Muir's Tours
• Nepal Trekking
• Mongoose Travel
• Peruvian Secrets Ltd.
• Rainbow Tours
• Ramblers Holidays
• Realworld-Travel.com Ltd
• Safari Consultants Ltd
• Simply Tanzania Tour Company
• Steppes Travel
• The Adventure Company
• Tribes Travel
• The Himalayan Adventure Company
• The Imaginative Traveller
• The Mountain Company
• The Ultimate Travel Company
• Tribes Travel
• Trips Worldwide
• Tucan Travel
•White Peak Expeditions
• World Expeditions
UK tour operators who do not have, or have not demonstrated to Tourism Concern proof of, policies on porters' rights and working conditions (last updated February 2006):
• Acacia Adventure Holidays
• Africa Exclusive
• Africa-Reps
• Chile Tours
• Circle of Light International
• Crusader Travel
• Exclusive Americas
• Kuoni Travel
• Nomadic Thoughts
• Oak Travel
• Okavango Tours & Safaris
• Pettitts
• Preston Reid
• Pulse Africa (UK)
• Quest Travel
• Safari Drive
• Safari Link
• Scott Dunn
• Sherpa Expeditions
• South American Experience
• Tana Travel
• Tanganyika Wildlife Safari
• Tanzania Odyssey
• Tim Best Travel
• Trans Indus
• Veloso Tours
• Western & Oriental
• Wildlife Worldwide
Trekking regions covered by this campaign are the Himalayas, Nepal; the Inca Trail, Peru; and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Please note that neither list is definitive. The first list is of tour operators who have demonstrated proof of their policies on porters' rights and working conditions to Tourism Concern, and given us permission to make that information public. The second list is of tour operators who either do not have policies on porters' rights and working conditions, or have not demonstrated proof of those policies to Tourism Concern. If you would like more information on the porters' policies of these operators, please contact them directly.
Please note also that inclusion in this list does not denote a Tourism Concern 'seal of approval'. This is rather a list of those operators who are working with Tourism Concern in our porters campaign, using or developing guidelines on porters' working conditions, often based on those suggested by Tourism Concern. We acknowledge that the usefulness of written statements has limitations, but we feel that it is useful nonetheless to have information on operators' policies standardised.
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