TROPIC’s innovative programs have garnered international awards from the beginning. Our ‘Amazon Headwaters with the Huaorani’ and the innovative ‘Huaorani Ecolodge’ were instantly recognized as a new collaborative model for tourism.

We began with the idea that by providing clients with exciting, hand-picked journeys, proving that responsible tourism could be a way to provide economic support to communities, while helping preserve their cultures and natural environments. It was novel concept, but faith in the idea inspired us from the start, and TROPIC’s first project in collaboration with the recently contacted Huaorani people became an award-winning venture.

Over the years, TROPIC has increased its scope, providing travelers with other exciting, transformative adventures in exclusive destinations developed in partnership with host communities in other parts of Ecuador, Peru and soon Chile. Creating alliances with these communities has meant authentic, creative journeys and real experiences for travelers, and has kept TROPIC at the forefront of premium, responsible tourism.

On March, 10th, 2023, we became a signatory to Tourism Declares, an initiative that supports tourism businesses, organizations and individuals in declaring a climate emergency and taking purposeful action to reduce their carbon emissions as per the advice from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030.

We have committed to the following five actions:

1. Develop a ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ within the next 12 months, which sets out our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade. If you would like to see the action we are taking now, and have been taking since July 2019, please see Travel Positive: Certifiably Responsible.

2. Share an initial public declaration of our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’, and update on progress each year.

3. Accept current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the travel services sold by us.

4. Encourage our suppliers and partners to make the same declaration; sharing best practice amongst peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community

5. Advocate for change. We recognise the need for system change across the industry to accelerate a just transition towards carbon-free tourism.

Please consider also declaring at www.tourismdeclares.com, and follow on @tourismdeclares on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin

Tropic declares a Climate Emergency, announces the launch of its Conservation Initiatives and the Galapagos Forest Initiative.