Voluntourism ‘One of the Best Ways to Ensure Tourism Helps Reduce Poverty’ Claims Different Travel
The Different Travel Company – a UK based volunteer travel company - have today claimed that properly managed volunteer travel is one of the best ways to ensure tourism assists poverty reduction. Pointing to a number of the projects to which Different Travel take their volunteer tourists,... - January 30, 2008
Conservative Party Rwanda Social Action Project Boosts Volunteer Travel
Fresh from volunteering on social action projects in Rwanda with David Cameron and the Conservative Party, trip organisers Different Travel highlight the benefits of short-term volunteering and voluntourism. - August 13, 2007
Different Travel Calls for an Ethical "Code of Practice" for UK Volunteering Companies
With Volunteers Week encouraging people to take up volunteering, voluntourism company Different Travel has called for ‘Code of Practice’ to regulate the ‘voluntourism sector’, prevent abuse of volunteers, and ensure that the projects bring genuine benefit to the developing world. - June 07, 2007