Small group tour in Thailand

Planet

To help reduce single use plastics and promote reusable alternatives, we’ve installed refillable water stations at nearly all of our overnight stops, and at many of our activity locations.

We advise all our travellers to bring a reusable water bottle when they travel, but for those that don’t we also sell INTRO branded bottles on all our trips.

Beach cleanups are a regular occurrence on INTRO trips. Just like you, we want to protect our oceans, waterways and marine life, so you’ll often find us and our awesome travellers collecting rubbish as we go. As well as our impromptu cleans, we’ve also partnered with organisations like Trash Hero in Thailand, and Gili Eco Trust in Indonesia, to further promote the message.

We’ve seen first hand how tourism can contribute to the abuse and mistreatment of animals, and it devastates us. To help end this, we support and visit a number of local animal welfare groups, we ensure no animal is ever hurt or negatively impacted by our activities, and we’ve even adopted a number of rescue animals at the properties we own.

As part of our goal to make a real positive impact to the environment, we partnered with Eden Reforestation Projects in 2019 to plant 10 trees for every booking we received. And as a result we’ve planted tens of thousands of trees, aided reforestation, rehabilitated wildlife and reduced poverty in multiple local communities. However we wanted to go even further and achieve true sustainability, so in late 2023 we began a new partnership with Path Net Zero to accurately measure our tours emissions, and Veritree to plant trees to offset those emissions. We are now very proud to say that every INTRO tour is 100% carbon neutral.

People

At our property Sarana Bungalows in Koh Phangan, Thailand we collect group members and guests old clothes, toiletries and leftover coins they no longer want and distribute it to Charlie’s Children Charity, who work with disadvantaged children and the mentally handicapped to give them clothes, food, toiletries and medical equipment like crutches etc.

Our local guides / legends are the backbone of our operations and a very special part of the INTRO family. Several times a year we offer the opportunity for one or more of our local guides to travel to another one of our destinations or choose an experience they may not normally get to do, courtesy of and with love from us.