Golden Trail Travel is committed to responsible travel, ensuring that we maintain the long-term viability of our vacation destinations. Travelers and those who arrange the experiences are being held more and more accountable as the number of people visiting Southeast Asia keeps rising. In collaboration with our partners, we work to deliver the best services to our customers while respecting the environment and society and encouraging responsible travel.

What is Responsible Travel?
In a nutshell, responsible travel is travel that improves the places people visit and call home. Traveling responsibly is becoming more and more popular worldwide. A recognition of the need of responsible tourism on a worldwide scale led to the founding of Vietnam's Responsible Travel Club.

The World Travel Mart (WTM) created World Responsible Tourism Day, which is celebrated annually in November. World Responsible Tourism Day is supported by the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel and Tourism Council.

Why Responsible Travel?
Some benefits of responsible and prudent travel include the following:
1. lessens negative impacts on society, the economy, and the environment.
2. raises the standard of living in host communities by giving the locals more economic benefits.
3. improves the working environment and accessibility for the tourism industry.
4. includes the community in choices that affect their daily lives.
5. contributions to the preservation of culture and the environment.
provides more enjoyable experiences for guests by encouraging closer links with the local community. raises tourists' understanding of regional customs and social, environmental, and cultural issues.
6. provides work for those with physical limitations.
7. encourages civility between guests and hosts.
8. boosts confidence and sense of community.
9. initiatives to lessen the consequences of climate change

CODE OF CONDUCT:
 Achieving social responsibility
1. Provide capacity building and actively involve the local community in planning and decision-making in order to make this a reality;
2. Assess the operation's social implications to reduce adverse effects and increase beneficial ones;
3. Make an effort to ensure that tourism is accessible to all and that it is a socially inclusive experience, particularly for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations;
4. Take action against the exploitation of individuals for sex, particularly with regard to children; 
5. Preserve and advance social and cultural diversity while exhibiting consideration for the host culture;
6. Attempt to ensure that tourism improves education and health.
 
Achieving environmental responsibility
1. Assess how tourism-related facilities and activities affect the environment over the course of their entire life cycle, taking care to minimize any negative consequences and optimize any positive ones;
2. Cut back on waste and overindulgence while using resources sustainably;
3. Consider how much and what sort of tourism the environment can handle, protect fragile ecosystems, and, when appropriate, restore natural diversity;
4. Promote education and knowledge acquisition among all stakeholders engaged in sustainable development;
5. Ensure that best practices are implemented and strengthen the capacities of all parties involved; to achieve this, consult experts on environmental and conservation matters;
 
Achieving economic responsibility
1. Take into account the financial implications before boosting tourism, and prioritize programs that improve local communities and decrease their detrimental effects on way of life;
2. Maximize the benefits to the regional economy by fortifying links, reducing leakages, and ensuring that communities benefit from and engage in tourism;
3. Produce superior products that complement, symbolize, and draw attention to the area;
4. Encourage tourism in a way that preserves the natural, cultural, and social integrity of the destination; 
5. Adopt moral business practices, charge fairly, build partnerships, and employ staff who are aware of global labor standards;
6. Provide appropriate and sufficient support to small, medium, and micro businesses to guarantee the prosperity and long-term viability of tourism-related enterprises.

How are we doing this?
We just launched the Golden Trail Travel benevolent fund to help out local communities. We will be able to rehabilitate schools, buy cattle, and provide amenities for low-income highland houses and their kids with the help of this fund. As Golden Trail Travel joined The Responsible Travel Club of Vietnam in 2024, it has been actively supporting the local communities in all of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This loose network of different tour operators, non-governmental organizations, and individuals is committed to creating, implementing, and growing responsible travel for a tourism industry that is sustainable.