Charitable Travel launches hub to encourage holidaymakers to volunteer while away
Melanie May | 31 May 2022 | News
Social enterprise travel agent Charitable Travel has launched the ‘Big Holiday Help’ – an online hub of volunteering projects available to holidaymakers seeking to give back to the local community during their travels.
The ‘Big Holiday Help’ resource has information about hands-on opportunities to make a positive impact on the community, ecosystem or environment whilst on holiday. Opportunities range from helping with dog walking at an animal shelter in Greece, and joining a beach clean in the Caribbean, to planting trees in Florida or taking part in wildlife conservation monitoring programmes in the Canary Islands.
Melissa Tilling, CEO of Charitable Travel, which also offers travellers the opportunity to donate 5% of the cost of their holiday to charity, commented:
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“Holidaymakers are becoming increasingly benevolent and passionate about having a positive impact in the destinations they visit. Our new ‘Big Holiday Help’ hub highlights the great work being done in local communities around the world and enables visitors to dedicate a little time during their break to get involved with local projects to make a real difference whilst on holiday.
“We have over 50 responsible, well managed and well governed voluntourism projects listed so far, in popular holiday destinations including Spain, Greece, Portugal, USA and the Caribbean. The range and impact of these is astounding and this will continue to grow as we add further destinations.”
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.