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What if going on vacation was your way of giving back?

Travel changes people...people change the world.

Our purpose: to create your perfect, memorable, immersive, fun journey, which uplifts you, and benefits the local people and wildlife you meet.

Your purpose: to explore, experience, engage, have fun, learn and recharge. To benefit the local people and wildlife you meet. 

 
You, making a difference simply by taking the trip of your life. 
 

Once you come to know a country, you appreciate what it has to offer, and want to preserve that for other travelers, for years to come.   

 

Each Purposeful Travel journey includes a giveback component. By choosing where we stop for lunch or spend the night, or who we work with on the ground, we support local projects which train and employ community members. destinations.  

 

Additionally, a percentage of each journey goes to global initiatives such as clean rain water catchment tanks. By choosing a Purposeful Travel journey, you are ensuring that your visit does not go unnoticed. You will leave a legacy, an assist, a hand forever stretched out in compassion and friendship.​

 

We thank you.

"We loved our day with these amazing Kenyan women, and will treasure these hand woven baskets they made us , but we were not quite sure what to do with the chicken. Do chickens need passports?"
 
About us and our mission
 

The team at Purposeful Travel believes that travel can also be a win-win where both visitor and visited positively impact each others lives. 

 

After many years of traveling for pleasure and as members of the tourism industry, we felt compelled to express gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that the people and wildlife in our beautiful destinations had provided. Our mission is to offer other travelers fabulous journeys to amazing world destinations.  

 

Journeys that also benefit those who call those destinations home.

 

By including experiences that are locally staffed, operated and catered, your trip becomes a way of redistributing wealth. No longer a tourist, you become part of a global community of proactive travelers dedicated to social and economic change. 

 

Purposeful Travel journeys include first-hand experiences with a range of diverse projects.  Travelers tell us that exposure to these local community enterprises greatly increased their trip satisfaction, sense of cultural immersion and connection.  We wish the same for you. 

Volunteering with Kenyan ladies and gift

Your next trip can

make a difference...

we'll show you how 

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