As a result of a series of typhoons, the Batad Rice Terraces in Ifugao, a World Heritage site since 1995, are in danger. The Batad community will be open to voluntourists, who will be able to help as well as have a taste of traditional Ifugao life and culture.

Bringing Progress to Paradise is the story of climbing expedition leader and attorney Jeff Rasley’s trek to a village in a remote valley of Nepal called Basa back in October 2008. What he found was a people thoroughly unaffected by Western consumer-culture values. We will be giving away two copies of Bringing Progress to Paradise by Jeff Rasley…

Volunteer work with a luxury vacation — is that possible?

More and more luxury tour operators are offering alternative travel including voluntourism to satisfy the growing demand for meaningful travel without sacrificing upmarket amenities.

Youth travel specialist STA Travel is expecting a boom in voluntourism as more young people want to give back to communities in their travels.

Looking ahead to 2011 and wondering what some of the hot topics in green travel?

According to Europe’s first eco-tourism conference held in Estonia, some of the trends delegates expect to see in 2011…

It’s hard to imagine that traveling four days for six days of volunteer service in Africa would be enough time to bring about anything but a severe case of jet lag. But the trip was eye-opening!

International travel for me isn’t about sightseeing; my adventures are to help orphans have a better life…

An emerging travel trend that combines spiritual, green, experiential travel and voluntourism, “meaningful travel” is an evolving niche in which the traveler is in a position to help the people of the destination through donating money, adopting a cause, volunteering or getting involved.