Gourmet alpine walking holiday, France

People

We use local guides rather than imported ones and pay them the going rate in France.

For accommodation, we favour independent locally run accommodations rather than big chains to ensure your money goes straight back into the local community.

We also choose local suppliers who match our environmental values. We are committed to promoting the food of the region and have chosen our gourmet accommodation suppliers with care to ensure they use locally produced or home grown food.

During the tour your guide will tell you about the local culture and and stories of the evolution of the landscapes and forgotten villages and general life in the Alps to help you gain an insight into this fragile community which in turn helps engender respect and appreciation for it.

We believe that the better you know and understand places and people the more you respect them. The accumulated knowledge over time helps to nurture conservation values.

We offer this trip from May to October to encourage a tourism season outside the busy winter and summer holidays to help develop the local economy towards a more sustainable all year round activity.

We work closely with the Tourist Office and support their projects for sustainable tourism and in particular the impact of tourism on local agriculture (the traditional way of life in the area).

We are committed to promoting the culture of the region and ensuring that tourism has a positive impact. Through supporting local accommodations and local guides and visiting mountain refuges and giving clients detailed information about how to behave when in the national park we try to ensure that people behave with respect for the environment and local people.