Different Travel in the Media

Press Clipppings

See below for some articles we have been featured in. If you see us mentioned somewhere, do let us know where and when or send a link/scan to info@different-travel.com.

5-Nov-09: The Gazette and Herald: Malton businessman Rob Davies climbs Kilimanjaro to raise money for Ryedale Special Families

26-Sept-07: Jaunted
Volunteer Travel: Experience the Real Peru

18-Aug-07: The Guardian - Saturday travel section: Mini Gaps
Can't spare a year? Get a gap fix in a fortnight - see Way to Goa

Jun/Jul-07 Wanderlust: Is Voluntourism doing any good? The Debate
Different Travel promotes that well organised, ethical voluntourism benefits locals in Wanderlust magazine

17-Apr-07 Telegraph: Avoiding the guilt trips on a feel-good holiday.
Doing something "worthwhile" with your annual leave has always held a certain appeal for those with a social conscience: digging a well in an African village, perhaps, or painting an orphanage in India has got to be a better way to spend time than lying on a beach topping up the tan.

06-Sep-06 Glasgow Herald: You can't save the world, but holidays spent helping others make a big difference.
Painting and digging may not be your idea of an overseas holiday, but Rebecca McQuillan found her small contribution went a long way

27-Jul-06 Guardian Unlimited: Give and Take: Volunteering Holidays
How much can be achieved in just two weeks? Justine Reilly heads to Sri Lanka to find out.

Press Releases

22-Jan-08:
Volunteer Tourism 'one of the best ways to ensure tourism helps reduce poverty'

10-Aug-07:
Conservative Party Rwanda social action project boosts volunteer travel firm

04-Jun-07:
Different Travel Calls for an Ethical Code of Practice for Volunteering Companies

04-Dec-06:
Voluntourism growing because of 'ethical revolution' says Different Travel

Press Requests

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