Solidarity Tourism

Solidarity Tourism can be seen as a gateway to respond to the challenges of tourism, taking into account that this concept goes beyond the mere fact of organizing a trip, it has to do also with the links that are created with the local community and the positi- ve impacts for them, the departure pro- cess, but also reception process etc. And above all, solidarity tourism is responsible for the environment and the people who inhabit it, and promotes a model of tourism that is accessible to everyone. Solidarity Tourism is therefore the opposite of “mass tourism”. A tourism that respects all ethnicitie, cultures, sexual orientations, identities and people with disabilities.

Solidarity tourism as an opportunity to ally the challenges of local development with the challenges faced by youth these days. By creating a more aware business market we can create more sensible and adequate responses to the needs of the youth, namely providing job opportuni- ties that are safe and fair, later on giving the possibility to younger generations to fixate themselves not just in big urban cities but even in their homelands no matter how underdeveloped they seem to be. At the same time by fixa- ting locals we also guarantee the pre- servation of one's community traditions and cultural heritage, a healthy local economy and specially can aim to pro- tect the surrounding environment.