Traveling transforms us: it opens our minds, connects us with other cultures and gives us experiences that we remember forever. But it also transforms the places we visit.
The big question is: how do we ensure that this impact is positive?
At Enjoy Travel Group we believe that sustainable tourism is not a trend, but a more conscious and respectful way to travel the world. That is why we have created this practical guide with recommendations to take care of destinations, protect nature and enjoy trips that leave footprints… but good footprints.
This guide brings together three essential areas:
✔️ General good practices for any traveler
✔️ Tips for protecting flora and fauna
✔️ Recommendations for caring for beaches and coastal areas ✔️
Think of it as a travel companion: close, clear and designed to help you before, during and after your adventures.
1. How to be a responsible traveler (and have more fun in the process)
Sustainable travel does not mean giving up comfort. On the contrary:
means experiencing the destination in a more authentic way.
Here are some practices that make a difference:
- Be informed in advance: each destination has its own rules, cultural sensitivities and conservation policies. Traveling prepared is traveling better.
- Choose efficient means of transportation: walking, cycling or public transportation not only reduces your impact, but also allows you to discover places that do not appear on maps.
- Commitment to sustainable accommodations: establishments that take care of resources and apply real sustainability actions.
- Say goodbye to unnecessary paper: make your trips lighter, more convenient and digital.
- Take care of energy: turning off lights or air conditioning seems small, but it multiplies its effect on a tourist scale.
- Connect with the local culture: respect and enjoy the customs of the destination. The best version of a trip is always the most authentic.
- Minimize your waste and go for local products.
Small gestures that, when added together, have a big impact.
2. Caring for nature also means traveling
Flora and fauna are part of the charm of each destination. To protect them is to protect the experience.
- Knows the rules of the protected areas.
- Avoid getting too close to the animals or disturbing them: their welfare depends on it.
- Be especially careful on roads that cross natural areas.
- Do not touch baby animals or nests: this may cause them to be abandoned.
- Avoid fires in natural areas: fires are one of the greatest threats to habitats.
- Never take animals or plants, not even “to see them up close”.
- If you practice activities such as fishing or hunting, do so only in authorized areas and seasons.
Traveling responsibly in nature means being a visitor, not an intruder.
3. Clean beaches, living seas
The sea gives us some of the best postcards of the trip. It is our duty to take care of it.
- Do not throw away cigarette butts or garbage: they are highly polluting and take decades to degrade.
- If you dive or snorkel, avoid touching or stepping on the seabed.
- Do not use gel or shampoo in beach showers.
- Respect the rules of coexistence: the environment belongs to everyone.
- Use biodegradable sunscreen to avoid harming marine life.
- Whenever possible, arrive on foot or by bicycle.
- Reduce single-use plastics.
- Consume local products and support the local economy.
- Manage your waste correctly.
- And above all: it inspires other travelers to do the same.
Better travel is possible. And it starts with you.
Our goal as Enjoy Travel Group is to help you get to know the world… and also to take care of it.
Each of these practices makes your travels more authentic, respectful and enriching.
If you like to share, teach and multiply good deeds, here below you will find our three downloadable decalogs for you to use, have on hand and share with whomever you want.
