Category: Projects

Opening Horizons: Disadvantaged Students Explore Sustainable Tourism in Laos

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Posted: February 25, 2025

In the lush landscapes of northern Laos, a group of 26 disadvantaged students recently experienced a day that may well shape their futures. Through the generous support of Responsible Travel’s “Trip for a Trip” initiative and Tiger Trail, these young learners embarked on an educational adventure through Luang Prabang’s sustainable tourism destinations, gaining invaluable insights

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Learning Through Travel: How Responsible Travel UK’s Trip for a Trip Programme Inspired Disadvantaged Students in Luang Prabang

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Posted: January 17, 2024

Responsible Travel UK (RT) runs a Trip for a Trip programme (T4T) – they have helped 5000 disadvantaged children to go on a fun day trip. These day trips are not only fun – they also show the children why tourists flock to their country in the hope children might see the benefit that tourism

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Better future in store for Laos’ elephants

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Posted: January 15, 2024

Laos is still referred to as the country of a million elephants, but today there are only about 800 left in the country, of which only half still exist in the wild. The elephant is an iconic symbol of Laos and the animals are a big tourist draw, even though the population is dwindling rapidly.

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Jungle Jar Workshop Update

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Posted: December 20, 2023

Meeting House Complete and Workshop Coming Soon: The meeting house in Ban Huay Fai that is used to produce Jungle Jars, a community initiative setup during COVID is finished, and as soon as the village gets electricity (late January), we’ll be opening the doors to a brand new training workshop. This exciting space will provide

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Laos-China Railway Schedule and Pricing

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Posted: July 3, 2022

We are not a ticketing agent and provide the information below for your convenience only. See China-Laos Railway Company for current information. The bullet train, named Lane Xang, opened on 2 Dec 2021. The streamlined “China-standard” bullet train, or the Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train, designed and built by Chinese companies, can run at 160

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Guides complete COVID-safe training

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Posted: March 30, 2022

In anticipation of increasing numbers of tourists in 2022, today guides from Tiger Trail Travel are completing their Lao Safe COVID-19 training. Under the current COVID guidelines governing international tourism to Laos, tour guides and drivers constitute one of the major points of contact for tourists and great hygiene standards at all times is a

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Project Kajsiab – Helping Women and Children in Bokeo Province Laos

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Posted: March 31, 2021

Kajsiab Family Project Initiative helping mountain village people in Bokeo Province, Laos COVID-19 Update – March 2021 Let us all remember:“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” For now, all self-sustainability activities at our project are closed. We have no income to feed 46 people at Kajsiab

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Luxury Homestay Opens in Khmu/Hmong Village

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Posted: July 26, 2019

The village home stay is built from clay bricks and provides a little bit of luxury where sensitive and culturally interested travellers can enjoy an ethnic interaction responsibility while staying in ecologically built accommodation that supports the community with ongoing income.

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