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Despite its beauty, the Highlands and Islands is one of the least affluent regions of Scotland. The further north you travel, the more evident this is.
By bringing the benefits of tourism to this remote area and using local services and produce, we help to support local businesses, create employment and contribute to the overall sustainable development of the region. Our strict 'leave no trace' policy ensures that our presence in these beautiful regions will not have a negative effect on this fragile environment.
This concept will be explained by our guide at the start of the trip and practised throughout. Through responsible guiding, we will enable our clients to develop an understanding of the existing and future issues which affect these valuable wilderness areas.
These trips are based in locally owned guest houses. Photography trips provide a valuable source of revenue for these small businesses outside of the main tourist season. The guest houses use locally sourced food whenever possible, and also employ part-time staff, thus contributing to the local economy. All of our Scotland-based trips start at railway stations to encourage travel by rail to Scotland.
Our photography expert, Colin Prior, is passionate about protecting wild places and feels that forming a connection with the wilderness is a vital element to capturing its spirit in a photograph. Awakening these connections amongst our clients has knock on benefits as they realise the value of wild places and perhaps make some small changes to their own lifestyle to lessen their individual impact on our fragile environment.
All of our trips start and finish at or close to railway stations, as this makes it much easier for our clients to travel to the Highlands by rail. We encourage travel by train or bus in all of our joining instructions that we send to clients, and also have a section on our website which includes links to train timetables and booking services to make it easier for clients to choose to travel by rail.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
