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Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation

Filed in archive Sustainable Travel on November 25, 2008

An interesting service came to my attention recently, called Elevate Destinations. The service bills itself as 'travel that matters" because a percentage of the profits goes to local communities and to environmental Preservation.

Among their offerings, Elevate Destinations has a package to Thailand designed "especially for Travel + Leisure's Transformation Vacations portfolio."

Karen Bryan wrote about Elevate Travel for us here at Wandalust back in April and said that she "would be a lot happier if Elevate Travel put a figure on what percentage of their profits are donated to non-profit organisations in the host country." At the time, Elevate Destinations said simply that "a percentage" was donated. Since that time a set level of 5% has been established - which makes the company more transparent.

Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation
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Elevate Desintations recently got called upon to help EcoLogic celebrate its 15th anniversary as a leading conserver of critical natural resources in Central America by taking donors on "an exclusive trip to visit EcoLogic's projects in the Pico Bonito National Park in Honduras." Eleven people, including representatives from the Clinton Foundation, received an intimate tour of important carbon offsetting and watershed projects in the park-projects which, according to Elevation Destinations, are working to combat the destruction of the park's precious resources, loss of biodiversity and degraded watersheds by strengthening community participation in natural resource management.

Elevate Destinations, a "Responsive Travel" company based in Cambridge, MA, organizes donor travel for many A-list international organizations, including EcoLogic, KickStart, Direct Relief International, and WaterPartners International, among others. The company plays an increasingly significant role for small to mid-size non-profits, who appreciate the value of donor travel, but do not have the resources to organize a trip themselves.

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