Khiri Travel has added The Philippines to its destinations with the acquisition of Travel Authentic Philippines. The Philippines becomes Khiri Travel’s ninth Asian destination, joining Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, and Myanmar. Travel Authentic Philippines (TAP) Country Manager, Paulette Viacrucis, will retain her role with Khiri Travel Philippines. She will be supported by Stuart Tayler, who will lead the development and updating of product offerings from Khiri Travel’s office in Cebu City. Khiri Travel’s priority is to ensure that its Philippine products satisfy the broad range of tour operator clients that it currently serves. These include specialist operators in sectors such as educational travel, adventure, luxury, as well as indivi...
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Cambodia’s multiple award-winning conservation lodge, Cardamom Tented Camp, has joined The Long Run, an international grouping of sustainable nature-based tourism businesses dedicated to conservation, community, culture and commerce. By joining The Long Run as a “fellow member”, the camp commits to work towards the status of a “Global Ecosphere Retreat” – GER – one of the most rigorous sustainability standards in the international tourism industry and one recognised by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. To date, The Long Run has 11 elite GER members, 32 fellow members and 22 travel partners. Collectively, their conservation tourism helps protect around 9.3 million hectares (23 million acres) of forest, grasslands, desert and mountains on six continents. Cardamom Tented C...
Read MoreKhiri Reach, the 16-year old charitable arm of Khiri Travel, has joined Wildlife Alliance’s ambitious long-term One Million Tree initiative to reforest illegally cleared land in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains Khiri Reach, the charitable arm of Khiri Travel, has donated US$15,000 to the One Million Tree reforestation project in Koh Kong and Sihanoukville provinces in Cambodia. The charity has pledged to support the project for at least three years. The project, run by Wildlife Alliance, is planting hundreds of thousands of tree saplings to restore forest areas that were burned or cleared by land grabbers and loggers. The aim is to reforest the cleared areas so that biodiversity and habitat can recover. The Southern Cardamom mountains harbour the world's last wild, unfragmente...
Read MoreKhiri Reach, the charitable arm of Southeast Asia-based Khiri Travel, has won the global 2023 Skal Sustainable Tourism Award in the tour operator category. The foundation won for its submission, “Sixteen Years of Reaching Out in Asia.” Kevin S. Rautenbach, President of Skal international Thailand, received the award on stage on behalf of Khiri Reach, during the opening ceremony of the 82nd Skal World Congress in Malaga, Spain, 2 November. Skal said the 2023 award to Khiri Reach was evaluated by three prominent judges related to tourism and sustainability. The judges’ scores were given to the Skal International general secretariat for assessment. The result was verified by the Skal International senior auditor. “We are grateful to the judges for recognising 16 years of comm...
Read MoreSoutheast Asia based DMC adds experiences in “Signature”, “Select”, “Wow!”, “Personality”, “Sundowner” and “Picnic” categories Southeast Asia based destination management company Khiri Travel has launched new travel products in eight countries in the region. Each Khiri travel experience is listed in one of six categories: Signature, Select, Personality, Sundowner, Picnic, and Wow! The categories give tour operators and travel agents in source markets a quick indication of what to expect. Specifically, Khiri Signature is reserved for special travel experiences not offered by other operators. Khiri Personality is for conversations with renowned local experts such as historians, authors and artists. Khiri Sundowner presents amazing views at sunset with private drinks servic...
Read MoreThe #OpenThailandSafely communications campaign by Khiri Travel and partners has won the 2023 WiT Travel Changemakers Award in the Local Community Engagement category. The campaign was launched in March 2021 to safely reopen Thailand to visitors after its tourism economy had been decimated by the de facto shut down of international travel due to Covid-19. OpenThailandSafely was launched in early 2021 as the vaccine roll outs were picking up pace and tourism economies such as the Maldives and Greece were reopening. The central idea was to allow vaccinated tourists back into Thailand without subjecting them to quarantine. The campaign, created by Khiri Travel in Thailand and supported by 60 travel industry companies and organisations such as the Minor Group, Asian Trails, Capel...
Read MoreKhiri Travel has won “Best Sustainable Tourism Company - Thailand” and “Best Destination Management Company - Thailand” at the 2023 International Travel Awards held in Dubai on 17 June. Award organisers, UAE-based Golden Tree, said: “Khiri Travel has shown itself as a brilliant representative of excellent services in the global tourism industry.” The annual awards are voted by guests, travellers and travel industry players alike. Over a hundred thousand international travellers and tourism industry professionals vote to select the winners across all categories each year. Acknowledging the two awards, Willem Niemeijer, CEO and Founder of Khiri Travel, which is celebrating 30 years of DMC operations this year, said: “Two international travel awards in one evening is testament t...
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