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We are Nepal Conservation Travel

“Crafting travel experience for a clear conscience”

Nestled in the heart of the Himalayas, Nepal is a country of magnificent natural beauty. Rising from pristine lowland jungle where wild tigers and rhinoceros flourish, up through the precipitous hunting grounds of the snow leopard to the soaring peaks of Everest, Nepal’s rugged land attracts a million visitors every year. Sadly, tourism is harming the very fabric of Nepal’s social and natural environment.

We believe that tourism should further improve, not destroy, the natural world. We are a group of humanitarians, conservationists, animal welfare figures, hospitality professionals, and responsible tourism ambassadors together, who have joined hands in the quest of redefining the quality of Nepal's tourism practice.

Nepal Conservation Travel aims to introduce a model tourism practice that educates, entertains, enriches, connects, and empowers our clients in intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical and communal sense, while ensuring that no children’s future is robbed, no harm comes to any animal, no human's dignity is compromised, and no traces are left in the nature. Our goal is to bridge the gaps in the tourism benefit-sharing and to strengthen conservation by making it beneficial for all human and non-human entities.

Programs

  • EcoEscape

    EcoEscape offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of Nepal’s natural world safe in the knowledge that your very presence is contributing to its conservation. From four categories of eco-escape engagements we create an assemblage of all the aspects with a highlight on the category you have chosen to be your main focus.

    Booking Available for Well-being

    With exclusive services of invigorating massages and healing therapies eco-escape offers many opportunities to take ample care of your bodily health and well-being. We have exclusive ancient Ayurvedic and Naturopathy stay-clinic package that offers healings and treatments to ailments that need holistic methods like food therapy, mud therapy, herbal remedies and so on. Hikes, treks and physically engaging activities in the communities will help you keep physically fit.

  • EcoEscape

    EcoEscape offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of Nepal’s natural world safe in the knowledge that your very presence is contributing to its conservation. From four categories of eco-escape engagements we create an assemblage of all the aspects with a highlight on the category you have chosen to be your main focus.

    Booking Available for Spiritual Immersion

    Exclusive sittings with revered Buddhist gurus at the leading monasteries, special Pujas, butter lamp ceremony and much more, we provide you a range of activities and packages that will help reawaken your spiritual being and help you get closer to the meaning of life and inner peace. Our exclusive offers on remote monastery trips, a luxury trip to Buddha’s birth place, an exclusive course with a guru at a monastery are like no other. Beginners to advanced meditation classes run by renowned teachers is another highlight among our services.

  • EcoEscape

    EcoEscape offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of Nepal’s natural world safe in the knowledge that your very presence is contributing to its conservation. From four categories of eco-escape engagements we create an assemblage of all the aspects with a highlight on the category you have chosen to be your main focus.

    Booking Available for Nature Interaction

    We offer a unique opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of Nepal’s natural world safe in the knowledge that your very presence is contributing to its conservation. It is a combination of luxury accommodation, fascinating conservation activities and the best wildlife viewing Nepal has to offer. This enables you to relax and have some quality time in some of the most beautiful and pristine habitats on the planet. 

  • EcoEscape

    EcoEscape offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of Nepal’s natural world safe in the knowledge that your very presence is contributing to its conservation. From four categories of eco-escape engagements we create an assemblage of all the aspects with a highlight on the category you have chosen to be your main focus.

    Booking Available for Cultural Enrichment

    Finely crafted cultural experiences such as the back-door access to the town of artisans in ancient cities of Kathmandu, exclusive cookery classes on authentic local cuisines, world famous cultural festivals and engaging with local communities such as paddy plantation and so much more, we take pleasure in showing you the real, authentic side of Nepal in the most classy style.

Nature-Nurture
Nature-Nurture

An Experiential Learning Program

"If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it."

- David Sobel

Nepal Conservation Travel partners with schools internationally to organise biological field trips, wildlife volunteering placements, service learning programs and exchange programs. Nepal is a popular choice for excursions in biological sciences by virtue of being a safe, accessible country with a rich bio-diversity and immense potential for community development.

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Our Ethics

Child Protection

With years of experience of having led international school trips and some of our founders having worked in the field of education and child development NCT is very sensitive and mindful around the topic of child protection. Different schools and institutions have different operating protocols and policies regarding child-protection and here at NCT we prefer to get sensitised and oriented about specific protocols in such case.

Community

A model of equitable benefit sharing with the community has a great potential in making responsible tourism an efficient tool for transforming community behaviour for an all-round common good. NCT by the virtue of its foundational ethics ensures that its partner communities benefit and do well with each dealing with NCT. With the idea of engaged visitation, NCT allows its clients to maximise the good that they can bring to any community. Meanwhile, NCT with the design of its programs ensures that the community gives back in the form of a great experience, knowledge, spiritual awakening, love, and support to our clients such that it becomes a dignified partnership, a quid-pro-quo with no one ending up being the victim of charity.

Please immediately report any discrepancies you might feel or notice to the management at [email protected].

Animal Welfare

With one of the world’s highest diversity of ethnicities and cultures, Nepal is considered to be a culturally compassionate society where almost all animals are revered. However, a few exceptional cases of cruelty on animals in the form of traditions and fast increasing commercialisation of animal abuse are hindering the clean and compassionate image of Nepal. NCT not only advocates continued upgrading of Animal Welfare status in tourism practice but also actively encourages ethical alternatives to tourism activities that abuse animals in the name of entertainment and tourism.

Please immediately report any discrepancies you might feel or notice to the management at [email protected].

Humanity

NCT believes in the fair treatment of staff and team members,  and equality among all with any gender identity. Our vision is to pioneer the movement of ending unacceptable practices such as child labor, underpaid exploitation of ground staff and pay difference among different genders, which unfortunately is not uncommon in the practice of Tourism in Nepal as of today.

Please immediately report any discrepancies you might feel or notice to the management at [email protected].

Ecological

Enabling environmental protection through the market-based tool is the main idea behind NCT. All of our activities are fundamentally designed to aid environmental protection and conservation. Tourism like many other businesses contributes to the sheer pressure on the environmental components of both global and local concerns. Tourism practice, more than ever before, now needs to be mindful of and responsible towards the adverse impact it can have on the local environment. NCT adopts a do-no-harm policy whenever possible or exclusively uses compensational mechanisms to offset the adverse impact of its activities whenever complete avoidance is not possible.

Please immediately report any discrepancies you might feel or notice to the management at [email protected].

Cultural

Meaningful tourism and considerate exposure can bring in a lot of value to a cultural setting, however, practices indifferent to cultural sensitivities and vulnerabilities can have a detrimental impact. NCT has its own protocol created considering the local cultural sensitivities so that our clients can be sensitised about the cultural vulnerabilities and about possible positive and negative impacts they can have. We are mindful of this and we actively engage in identifying ways to bolstering the cultural integrity of the local destinations.

Please immediately report any discrepancies you might feel or notice to the management at [email protected].

Child Protection
Community
Animal Welfare
Humanity
Ecological
Cultural