VISITOR TO INDIA | TOUR OPERATOR OR TOURISM SERVICE

As a Visitor to India

As a visitor to India you have enormous purchasing power and exactly how you spend your money has immediate effect on your hosts and at the wildlife destinations you visit. Well thought through and responsible nature tourism can be a positive conservation tool and can be a tool in eradicating poverty. Alternatively, poorly conceived and badly run nature tourism can have a very detrimental effect on your hosts and their livelihood, and ultimately wildlife conservation.

Joining one of the TOFT Members tours or travel programmes will mean you can or will donate a small sum from your Holiday price to Tiger Conservation.

But you can help us further by:

• The campaign is aimed at every tour operator in the UK, and ultimately from around the world, taking clients into India and specifically to wildlife destinations. It is also aimed at all the providers of nature tourism services in India.

  The campaign maintains an inclusive approach believing that the best results will be achieved by collective will power and partnership by all those of us involved in the nature tourism equation.

  If you would like to join Travel Operators for Tigers as a UK or International Tour or Travel Operator:

  Your responsibilities will include:

• Support, endorse, help, publicise and advocate the Code of Conduct for all those involved in the deliver of your service to your clients. This includes sending the code to:
  i) Your agents in India
  ii) Your leaders and guides in India
  iii) Your accommodation and service providers in Tiger reserves
• Add the Visitors Code of Conduct to
  i) Your pre departure literature
  ii) Use in your client briefings where appropriate
  iii) Highlight clients, leaders and guides ability to record infringements or bad practice through the TOFT comments email comments@toftiger.org for appropriate recording and action by the TOFT Executive and NGO's
• Add a minimum of £15 (US30 or EU30) per client to a fund jointly managed by Global Tiger Patrol and the Environmental Investigation Agency. This can be collected in the best way possible for your organisation. E.g. Added to tour price, added to invoice, collected by leaders or guides in host country etc. Each quarter you will be asked to submit funds collected on an 'honesty basis' to the appropriate account.

  Each travel operator in return:

  1) Can state its support for Travel Operators for Tigers in literature and brochures and incorporate a Travel Operators for Tigers 'logo' when required

  2) Will be linked to the two recipient charities' websites as a 'Travel Operators for Tigers' partner

  3) Will be acknowledged as a member of Travel Operators for Tigers campaign in literature and PR that is undertaken to promote tiger tours and better tiger conservation efforts in India and Nepal.

  4) Will be informed of projects, initiatives, training and activities that are carried out by Travel Operators for Tigers and the recipient charities.

  5) Will be given examples of projects and interesting conservation initiatives that are possible to include on your clients' itineraries.

  6) Will be provided with good examples of best practice for your service providers to follow or imitate.

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