03 Feb 2010

The Responsible Fringe Meeting held on 02 Feb 2010 at the Dechenling Garden Restaurant was a grand success. Over 50 individuals, including 17 students and faculty from three leading tourism institutes - SMSH, NCTTM and NATHM - participated in the event organized by socialtours.com travels and Silver Mountain Institute of Hotel Management, and sponsored by Everest Summit Lodges.

We are deeply passionate about people and nature! Therefore, we make serious efforts during our trips at creating an enabling environment where this interaction can happen. Combine this with well designed trips, responsible travel practices and negation of carbon footprint, and you have with us an irresistable holiday offer, aimed to exceed your holiday expectations, with utmost regard to your safety, gentle on our environment and at the same time maximizing contribution to the local economy.

Interestingly, our youngest client was a 7 year old girl who went trekking with us. We have taken a 11 year old boy and his family over a 4600 m pass, taken a visually impaired woman over a 14 day trek during the monsoon, and recently had an 83 year old volunteer working at a school in Kathmandu. People from various parts of the world have travelled with us - Canadians, Americans, British, German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, German, Austrian, Greek, Indian, Scottish, Irish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Austrialian and the list is growing..