Vegan Travel Asia by VegVoyages Gets Nominated For The “World’s Responsible Tourism Award"

October 3, 2021

The first vegan tour company ever to be nominated in the history of the World Travel Awards has been nominated yet again – but this time for the prestigious “World’s Responsible Tourism Award 2021”. This award was established by the World Travel Awards to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence and progress in the field of responsible tourism across the globe. 

“We are so happy to receive this nomination, as this will bring even greater recognition to and give us a greater opportunity to help raise awareness that traveling vegan is very much a part of traveling responsibly and sustainably. Long ignored or discounted in many responsible, sustainable and eco-friendly travel checklists and discussions, we hope this nomination will help us change that,” said Zac Lovas, Co-founder of VegVoyages. “The odds are against us, but we’re determined to give it a good fight to make “vegan” finally part of responsible, sustainable and eco-friendly travel discussions, conversation and checklists! Traveling vegan is an important part of traveling more responsibly - for people, the environment, animals, the sustainability of tourism, and the planet.” 

As we know, the negative effects caused by animal agriculture and exploitation remain 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.

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.

Should responsible travel be about making travel sustainable and non-exploitive for all living beings - humans and animals alike?  If you answered yes, please help Vegan Travel Asia by VegVoyages raise awareness and bring this important conversation to the next level by casting your vote and sharing this voting link...

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ABOUT VEGAN TRAVEL ASIA BY VEGVOYAGES:

Vegan Travel Asia by VegVoyages is a team of 5 close friends from 4 different countries (India, Indonesia, Nepal and USA) and 4 different faiths, who came together to combine their diverse backgrounds and mutual passion for animals, people, cultures, travel and storytelling. They create and organize cultural tours that focus on bridging cultural gaps through cultural immersion and local interaction with local communities while enjoying 100% local vegan food along the way. Starting with 3 trips in India 17 years ago, they now organize up to 27 trips a year in 9 different countries. 

For Vegan Travel Asia by 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 ecosystems they are visiting.