Overview
Nepal Travel Designer (NTD) is a sustainable tourism enterprise based in Nepal. NTD is a privately-owned for-profit travel company with an objective make sustainable impact in the communities and lives of tourism workers such as guides, porters, and cooks
Description
Nepal Travel Designer (NTD) is a sustainable tourism enterprise based in Nepal. NTD is a privately-owned for-profit travel company with an objective make sustainable impact in the communities and lives of tourism workers such as guides, porters, and cooks.
The organization promotes eco-friendly destinations in Nepal rich in Culture, Ethnicity, Heritage, and Nature. All our trips are community-based, which means that we work together with the local community members who can benefit from our travel programs and also generate additional income.
Vision
Be the leading sustainable travel company by promoting Nepal’s cultural heritage, ethnic diversity, natural beauty, and spiritual boundaries to create impact in the communities we serve.
Mission
Create Innovative and Impactful travel destinations and experiences for mutual benefit of local communities and our guests.
Core Values
People and Environment First: We always prioritize environmental and social protection and benefits. Biological diversity has a huge cultural value for present and future generations and an important reason for conserving it today. Biodiversity is an important aspect of cultural identity and human cultures coevolve with their environment. Nature provides many inspirational, aesthetic, spiritual and educational needs of people from all cultures throughout humanity.
Sustainable Impact – Our team ensures that each trip is designed to make the utmost impact in our travel destinations. We do our best to design our trips to create sustainable communities and ecosystem.
Fair Trade – We promote Fair Trade tourism. Our operating partners and workers like guides, porters, cook, etc receive fair wage and fair payment. We provide best capacity building training to our staff and minimize their exposure to harsh working conditions whenever possible. We have utmost respect to the environment and marginalized communities. We follow 10 principles of Fair Trade.
Community Engagement – It is our greatest interest to partner with local communities to promote tourism in Nepal. For this, we form deep relations with the community, identify areas where community members can participate in our trips, and ensure that they make an income out of it. It is important for community to be engaged to ensure sustainability and long-term development.
Experiential Learning – We continuously learn throughout our life and journey. All our trips are designed with ane experiential learning component, whereby our guests learn about different aspects of Nepal, and our partner communities and us as a whole learn from our guests. We promote a cooperative and co-learning opportunities to create deeper bond.
