Vegan Travel Asia Becomes The First Vegan Tour Company To Be Nominated For A World Travel Award

June 22, 2021

Vegan Travel Asia by VegVoyages has become the first vegan tour company nominee in the 28-year history of the World Travel Awards. As the first vegan travel company to be nominated for a World Travel Award, they are a nominee for the “Asia’s Responsible Tourism Award 2021”. 

The World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Today, the World Travel Awards is recognized globally as the hallmark of industry excellence.

VegVoyages guests being welcomed into the local community in the foothills of the Himalaya

The negative effects caused by animal agriculture and exploitation remains left out of most responsible and sustainable travel discussions.  A significant part of responsible and sustainable travel is by definition to lessen the negative impacts on local environments and resources (including food and water), and to make the increasing amounts of tourism sustainable for communities. A plant-based diet checks all those boxes.

For VegVoyages, traveling vegan is not just limited to the vegan meals they serve their guests. They also avoid all forms of animal exploitation including no animal rides, no zoos, no “selfie ops” with animals and no animal shows. In addition, when they bring their guests to explore national parks and protected marine life reserves – they make sure to do so in a meaningful, educational, and conservation-oriented, and minimal footprint manner, by collaborating with frontline conservationists and wildlife protection organizations enabling their guests to make a positive impact and contribute in a beneficial manner to the eco-systems they are visiting. 

According to the United Nation World Tourism Organization, there were 1.5 billion tourists’ visits worldwide in 2019; this includes almost 11 million foreign tourist arrivals in India alone. On a planet of almost 8 billion people, with declining food and water resources, traveling vegan would seem like a substantial way to lessen our travel footprint on community and environmental resources.

“We want to make a big push that traveling vegan is an important part of traveling responsibly, sustainably and being eco-friendlier,” said RK Singh, Co-founder of VegVoyages. “It really is the “elephant in the room” in responsible, sustainable and eco-travel circles. Most people don’t want to talk about it, but we’re determined to make traveling vegan be an important part of this discussion.”
 
Shouldn’t responsible travel be about making travel sustainable and non-exploitive for all living beings (humans and animals alike)?  Let’s help them raise the awareness and bring this important conversation to the next level by casting your vote and sharing this voting link.

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