Voluntouring:
Travel with a purpose.
Voluntouring as a way to mobilise manpower and resources, exposing travellers and communities to each other
Why Voluntouring?
What's in it for HC?
- Improving tourism in rural areas stimulate local business opportunities naturally through demand.
- Crafts business and specifically Courier-crafts is closely tied to viable tourism industry.
- Tapping into Volunteer drivers with local knowledge
- Bringing local and foreign tourists to a tourist area that might not be a prime destination or route.
What's in it for Self Drive tourist and Voluntourist?
- Opportunity to go 4x4 in Souther Africa and visit, meet and interact with rural communities and fragile cultures
- Volunteering – contributing to destinations and communities they visit/ed – get involved.
- Opportunity to join an expedition, guided by one or two divers familiar with the area visited
- Guide expeditions to an area.
- Host a paying Voluntourist during the trip / have a 1 on 1 guided 4x4 tour and community involvement
What is in it for Self Drive tourists industry?
- Improved image and PR for self drive industry.
- Social development and involvement in areas visited by Self drive tourist.
- Establishing and maintaining viable routes, points of interest and destinations.
What is in it for communities?
- Demand for products and services, craft, accommodation, fire wood, food, fuel, entertainment etc.
- Outside expertise brought in through consultants and volunteers.
- Training in business, skills training and technology.
