Help Tourism

Why do we like them?

Help Tourism have been at the vanguard of sustainable tourism initiatives in India for well over a decade. They have developed some incredible adventure and activity programs, including trekking in the Himalayas, tiger, rhino and bird spotting in the National Parks and Reserves networks, elephant safaris and heritage and cultural tours in a fascinating and diverse region of India. Uniquely, all these programs are designed with specific sustainable development and conservation goals in mind. Their engagement with the local communities is a model to be admired - the organization has single-handedly implemented 26 Community Tourism projects in the remote forest and mountain villages of this region.

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What do they say?

We are your adventure travel experts for the Eastern Himalayas and North East India. At the heart of all our activity programs is an understanding that tourism can be a tool for conservation and sustainable development. Since 1991, we have supported various communities in the region in creating and establishing quality tourism destinations with a unique local flavor. Help Tourism provides purposeful travel to natural areas to understand the cultural and natural history of the environment without concealing actual threats. The special taste of our adventure tours and active travel programmes originates from a meaningful combination of four local and home grown ingredients:

H-eritage
E-nvironment
L-ivelihood
P-eople

with TOURISM being the professional “Chef de Cuisine”.

Help Tourism regularly conducts campaigns for sustainable development at local levels and encourages activities that confirm community development through tourism minus its negative effects. Help Tourism provides local communities with training and consultancy enabling them to build up capacity and safeguard ownership and links them globally.

Our Mission :

Linking Protected Areas and World Heritage Sites with people's livelihood by giving them ownership through tourism as a first step towards meaningful and sustainable conservation.

Our Vision :

Involving local people into community tourism initiatives between the Protected Areas of the East Himalaya, and helping them to create extension forests. Gradually mature these initiatives with wildlife management by creating Community Reserves to use them as migration corridors for wild animals between the Protected Areas.