Giving back for conscious travelers just got easier. Today Kind Traveler, the world’s first socially conscious Give + Get hotel booking platform that empowers travelers to positively impact the communities they visit, launches a 2.0 model. The new platform is optimized to make giving back easier than ever with a custom API and booking engine, new features, 45 new hotel choices, 20 new charities for local positive impact, multiple room categories to book, special perks, tree planting options at the time of booking, voluntourism opportunities and a tangible positive impact report with every booking.
Kind Traveler 2.0 Launches, Scaling Kindness & Optimizing Pathways for Positive Impact
Oliver Ridley Project
After the disastrous economic effects of Covid-19, and the launch of the tourism industry's Glasgow Declaration at COP26 declaring the need for urgent climate and community action, Kind Traveler, alongside charities and hotels (from Six Senses, Kimpton, Virgin Hotels and more), partner to make it even easier for travelers to become advocates for:
- Healthy Communities (addressing poverty, education, healthcare + more)
- Wildlife & Ocean Conservation
- Climate Action
Choose a hotel. Give + Get. That’s it.
The technology upgrades create a smooth pathway to charitable giving and better rewards. Travelers now have more hotels to choose from in 22 countries and an optimized route to make a meaningful positive impact in the communities they visit.
Carneros Resort and Spa
- Kind Traveler Perks Reward Kindness: exclusive hotel rates and perks are offered with a minimum of a $10 donation to a vetted local charity, or a charity of choice. Perks vary from waived resort fees, complimentary breakfast, spa discounts, bespoke experiences, resort credit, and more.
- Local Positive Impact Opportunities That Educate: learn why vetted local charities are pivotal to the wellbeing of destinations.
- Measurable Impact Metrics: receive a positive impact report with every booking.
- Transparency: learn about the sustainability, community impact, and wellness initiatives of every Kind Hotel.
- Kind Neighborhood Guides: responsible travel tips & local guides inform conscious travel itineraries.
- 100 Percent of donations raised are given to charity.
- Give Back Beyond Your Donation: with every local charity, learn about activities and voluntourism opportunities.
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW)
What kind of positive impact can you make? Examples of positive local impact you can make on the Kind Traveler platform through donations include:
- Plant 10 trees with One Tree Planted, helping to restore forests and create habitat for biodiversity
- Provide a clean water filter that serves up to 2,500 per day with Imagine Thailand Foundation
- Provide three weeks of food to three rescued wildlife patients with the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW Clinic)
Why should you care? Why now?
Covid-19 decimated non-profit organizations that relied on charitable donations as people had to brace for the unknown. Kind Traveler 2.0 is well positioned to accelerate recovery and mobilize climate action for the 1.4B travelers who took trips pre-Covid-19.
- Covid-19 impact: 97% of charities that depend on foot traffic, events, and other fundraising lost critical funding due to Covid-19 (Source: CAF America)
- 60 million individuals face extreme poverty because of Covid-19, erasing all progress made in poverty alleviation efforts over the last three years (Source: World Bank)
- Climate crisis declared at COP26 shows the earth is in peril unless we take action now
- 1 million plant & animal species at risk of extinction (Source: UN)
