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How this holiday makes a difference

This Selous Game Reserve & Mafia Island holiday involves 5 nights at the remarkable Chole Mjini Lodge. The lodge has been set up as a partnership between researchers Jean and Anne de Villiers and the people of Chole Mjini. It aims to promote tourism and directly benefit the local community - and it succeeds.A significant proportion of the revenue received for every guest goes towards community development projects. So far this has facilitated the building of a kindergarten, school and small hospital, and there are more projects in progress. We believe that sensitive and sustainable tourism is an invaluable help to developing the communities and preserving the environments of sub-Saharan Africa. So we encourage more people to visit Africa; promoting the positives through enjoyable and informative trips – whilst maximising the benefits these generate for the local economies, environments and host communities in Africa.

We aim to be a very fair company – to our travellers, to those who work for us and with us, and to the areas and communities which host our travellers.

We actively support areas where our traveller’s visits will help to conserve habitats and develop local communities. We aim to work with suppliers who provide local employment and training and who offer good quality, environmentally and culturally sensitive activities. We encourage local community participation in tourism projects and over the years we have supported a number of successful, small-scale conservation, community and educational projects in Africa.

Responsible tourism is at the heart of what we do and as part of our trips we also encourage our travellers to do their bit with informative suggestions on how to best support the local economy, minimise their footprint on the environment and to be culturally sensitive of the area they are visiting.

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