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Guardian and Observer Ethical Travel Award, 2007

Posted by Richard Hammond at 06:48 on Monday 29 October 2007

The Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited have announced the winner of their Ethical Travel Award - Under the Thatch, "a privately owned collection of unusual self-catering properties in Wales". Read GreenTraveller's review of Under The Thatch's Romany Caravan in southwest Wales...

Second: Village Ways, "a community project based in Binsar wildlife sanctuary in Uttaranchai, India". Read GreenTraveller's feature Ethical Holiday: Village Ways.

 

Third: Tribes Travel, "in recognition of its continued efforts to promote and

encourage fair-trade travel".

 

Read GreenTraveller's features: Ethical holiday:Kahawa Shamba, Tanzania, Is it OK to visit remote tribes? and In the footsteps of Bruce Parry: Visiting tribes - the ethical way.

 

For details of this year's Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited Travel Awards ceremony in Seville, see Travel Awards 2007.

 

Last year's Ethical Travel Award was won by Fair Trade in Tourism, South Africa. Read the article, by Andy Pietrasik, on Guardian Unlimited.

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