Politically correct destinations: “Tourists have enormous power” ^Featured

Some people want to lie in their holiday not only on the beach or look for attractions, but do something good, engage. That goes by you national is in a volunteer project and taught English or count birds. Or you just visited a country that behaves ethically – or attempt.

A hit list of States each year publishes the nonprofit organization ethical traveler. 2016 are mainly small island States in the Caribbean or the South Pacific here, but also a huge country like the Mongolia.

The organization based in Berkeley, California, United States observed the political and social conditions in emerging and developing countries since the mid-1990s. Once in a year, she chooses ten countries that intensified efforts to human rights, environmental protection and the social services and create “a vibrant, community-based tourism”.

Tonga in the South Pacific and the Cape Verde had made progress towards the equality of homosexuals, however, and Dominica in the Caribbean has been praised for the exemplary access of to healthcare. You can read more about the individual efforts of these countries in this photo gallery.

“Travellers have not only curiosity, but enormous power,” it says on the website of ethical traveler. They could develop not only their personal experience, by they visited foreign countries, but also politically and economically somewhat get going. You create but also an international exchange, sometimes a lot of money in the country. “Our meetings affect not only our lives, but also on the lives of people, their world we enter.”

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