Responsible Tourism News

Providing Safe Drinking Water to Ginette Harrison School, Nepal

By Mountain Kingdoms on 03 May 2020
Categories: Responsible Tourism

Mountain Kingdoms, along with a number of its clients, has recently donated over £600 to the Shiva Charity which is continuing its amazing work in Nepal.

Pleased to achieve the AITO Project Protect Award

By Mountain Kingdoms on 18 Mar 2020
Categories: Awards & competitions, Responsible Tourism

At the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) AGM this month, Mountain Kingdoms' Responsible Tourism Officer, Julia Sharpe, was proud to be awarded Mountain Kingdoms certificate for completing the AITO Project Protect programme. 

Climate Emergency Plan

By Mountain Kingdoms on 02 Mar 2020
Categories: Office news, Responsible Tourism

At Mountain Kingdoms we are committed to Responsible Tourism and ensuring that all our holidays are undertaken in a way which is socially, environmentally and culturally sound. As part of this commitment we have now joined the Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency initiative.

New Water-to-Go Reusable Bottle Campaign

By Mountain Kingdoms on 01 Jun 2019
Categories: Responsible Tourism

Here at Mountain Kingdoms we have teamed up with the revolutionary company, Water-to-Go, which has developed a multi-use drinking bottle with a filtration system that eliminates over 99.9% of all microbiological contaminants including viruses, bacteria, chemicals and heavy metals from any non-salt water source. A filter will typically filter 200 litres or last for approximately for three months of daily use. Any drinking source can be used from a tap in a hotel bathroom, to a stream or even a puddle!

May e-newsletter - Responsible Travel

By Mountain Kingdoms on 24 May 2019
Categories: e-Newsletters, Responsible Tourism

Responsible and sustainable tourism continues to remain at the very core of everything we do as a tour operator,

Take a look at our May e-newsletter here for more information about our recent and on-going Responsible Tourism initiatives.

Responsible Tourism Update

By Mountain Kingdoms on 01 May 2019
Categories: Responsible Tourism

2018 saw a continuing commitment by Mountain Kingdoms to responsible and sustainable tourism with the ongoing support of many charities and projects around the world as well as the exciting launch of our Water-to-Go reusable bottle campaign.

Good news from Kerala after the devastating floods

By Mountain Kingdoms on 22 Jan 2019
Categories: Responsible Tourism

Here at Mountain Kingdoms, we were all very concerned to see the havoc that the floods wrought in Kerala in August last year. We were keen to find a small grassroots charity that would be able to actively assist those affected, and were pleased to be able to donate funds to Kerala Partnership (KP) who were already on the ground and ready to help.

Help Mountain Kingdoms help Kerala

By Mountain Kingdoms on 11 Sep 2018
Categories: India, Responsible Tourism

We were very saddened to see the devastating effects of the severe flooding in Kerala in Southern India last month. It is a destination which is very popular with Mountain Kingdoms’ clients and although none of our tours are affected, there are areas which have been truly devastated by the catastrophic flooding.

Worthy cause - Simien Mountains Mobile Medical Service-UK

By Mountain Kingdoms on 11 May 2018
Categories: Ethiopia, Responsible Tourism

For the past seven years, Wendy Lovatt and her husband, Brian, have been running a medical project in Ethiopia called the Simien Mountains Mobile Medical Service (SMMMS). They started the project after trekking through the Simien Mountains with Mountain Kingdoms and seeing first-hand lack of basic medical care and health services available to rural communities.

Mountain Kingdoms bake for charity

By Mountain Kingdoms on 16 Mar 2017
Categories: Nepal, Responsible Tourism

Last week Mountain Kingdoms had their own Bake Off and helped raised a tasty sum of £245 for the Nepali Children's Trust

The team baked hundreds of small cakes to feed the the 500 runners who took part in an off-road race in the Forest of Dean organised by Rogueruns. For every runner who took part, Rogueruns gave 50p to Mountain Kingdoms for their bakes. The £245 raised was then donated by Mountain Kingdoms to the Nepali Children's Trust who support the Newlife Centre orphanage in Nepal.