Advice on locally run holidays
TIPS FROM OUR LOCAL TOUR OPERATORS
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THE REAL ADVANTAGE OF BOOKING WITH A LOCAL OPERATOR
“We gained many cultural insights into Tibet and the Buddhist faith, and were helped very much by our excellent Tibetan guide and our driver. A particular memory is the traditional evening meal we enjoyed at a colonial style venue in Kathmandu with Newari food, music and dancers. This was arranged as a surprise by our hosts, Manakamana Treks.”
– Thomas Miles, on a Tibet cultural tour
“I was most impressed with this company, gave them a call from Northern Croatia confirming arrival a couple of days early, wanted accommodation and they found me a lovely apartment and picked me up, supplied tea coffee bread and a wonderful welcome. Found other people had cancelled tour so they put me on another, plus looked after me on my free days going out of their way to show me around outer areas of the region, lent me a mobile, Nada and Branco are pearls.”
– Gloria Bentley-Reaney, on a Croatia walking holiday with Adria Adventures
“You will never feel like you're in a hotel, you feel you just live there for a week, absolutely nobody disturbs you, it is a place to enjoy peace, nature and you are being treated really well. You may not see the staff but even the smallest detail is cared for. Attention to detail was to the extreme of lighting up candles on the stairs to access your room and inside the room while you were having dinner and having a hot water bottle per person in the bed every night (something most welcomed at that altitude in this time of the year). These sort of treats I have never experienced, not even in 5 star hotels.”
- Carmen Garcia, staying in Morocco's Kasbah du Toubkal
“The most memorable part of our holiday was when Eskinder, head of the tour company, surprised me and my husband with T-shirts and enrolment in the World Food Walk. The tour operator really took the time to specifically organize something that me and my husband spoke of, even though it is out of the ordinary for tour companies to do something like that.”
– Mark and Diane Williams, on holiday in Ethiopia with Highway Tours
“There were many memorable parts of the holiday – arriving on the first afternoon to find a beautifully home-cooked meal (and wine) in the fridge ready for us to heat up, cycling for miles along the coast... having sangria at the local bar, shopping in the market for fresh fruit and vegetables... there were too many memorable things to list! We all had a brilliant time and I can't thank Alan and Vivian enough for the warm welcome we received and the thoughtfulness they demonstrated while we were there. They are super hosts and really did think of everything we might have needed.”
– Jane Edwards, on holiday with Cycle Catalan

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Tips from our travellers
TRAVEL LIKE A LOCAL!
At Responsible Travel, we think our travellers provide the best and most honest opinions about the holidays they have been on – and the most reliable reviews of our local operators.
We have selected some of the most useful local tour advice that our guests have provided over the years to help you make the very most of your holiday.
“Our best experience from Kathmandu was probably dinner on the last night with Achut in a fantastic Nepalese restaurant...nothing beats dining with locals who knows the right places. We absolutely loved how the trip was planned and can't recommend our tour operator highly enough! We have found new friends for life in Achut and Keshav as well as the lovely guides in Tibet – and we hope to go back and visit them one day!” – Christina Berthram Poulsen, on holiday in Tibet
“It was nice to meet, stay and eat with the local people. We got so much more out of the trip than if we had been staying in a big self contained hotel. It seemed that wherever possible the operator had used local people, which made for a far more interesting trip... It was our first trip to Croatia and it was such a perfect way to see the country.” – Sarah Hilliar, sea kayaking holiday in Croatia
“Eskinder went more than the extra mile to organise our trip, and looked after every detail… of special note was our young female guide Kidist, an inspiring example of a women in Africa and a privilege have her company. We were privileged to spend much of our time with Ethiopian drivers and guides, and with Eskinder himself, who talked freely with us about everything imaginable, and we returned home having had not just a wonderful and exciting holiday but also some understanding, and huge respect, for all things Ethiopian and especially its people.” – Christine Browning
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