GAPT is a world-wide organization with massive reach. Our GAPT Club members are entitled to front-row access to all events, exclusive offers on travel and related products from our partners (The Luxury Voyage, All Girls Travel, The Honeymoon Travel, and such), premier networking opportunities, and much more.
Self-Employment Through Tourism
Developing countries and rural areas around the world have massive tourism potential, yet these communities are left behind. Self-Employment Through Tourism programs are designed to empower local people and facilitate them with relevant resources to foster growth and self-sufficiency. These programs are centered around developing local tourism while providing self-employment opportunities. The mission is to use low-cost methods to provide long term solutions. Every person and every place are unique in their culture, and this uniqueness is one of the driving forces behind the growth in tourism. In 2018, 1.4 billion tourists are expected to travel the world; that number has been consistently growing over the years and is forecasted to continue increasing. As a result, tourism—a major socioeconomic activity of our times—provides livelihoods and creates jobs for millions of people in communities around the world.
Economic Regeneration amongst rural communities through tourism
In recent decades, Tourism grew exponentially and shows no signs of slowing down. Despite being known as an industry that is dominated by urban space and urban population, research shows that rural areas and rural populations play a key role in sustaining the constant growth of the tourism sector. In sensitive areas with weakening agriculture and soft local industries, tourism development and promotion can potentially revive the economy. GAPT is committed to taking steps to resuscitate such rural communities and regenerate their economies with the help of tourism. Partnerships with local governments and NGOs are used to generate self-employment in the local tourism industry. These programs are intended to generate self-sufficiency and sustainable tourism.
Sustainability is the need of the hour.
Sustainable Tourism emphasizes on the concept, “Giving more than you take.” At GAPT, we encourage travelling sustainably, to give more than you take. A practice that we have fostered into our travels. With every new experience, we try to understand how our presence affects a society and its environment, by doing so, we try and give more than we have taken.
By definition, sustainable tourism is tourism that respects both local people and the traveller, cultural heritage, and the environment. It seeks to provide people with an exciting educational experience that benefits the people of the host country as well. By practice, sustainable tourism is every little aspect of your travel and how you choose to do it. Do you carry a bottle or water to fill in? Or do you buy plastic bottles that are wasteful and cannot be recycled? Do you try to understand the l0ocal culture? Or are you irrelevant towards it?
At the GAPT we raise awareness and motivate travellers to be more mindful of their journeys.
Sustainable Practices
Travel is widespread, it is now easier than ever to be a global citizen. This ease of transport comes with its downsides, one of them being the lack of awareness of sustainable travel. The Sustainable Practices program aims to give Peace Ambassadors the resources required to participate in the sustainable tourism industry, which we believe is the key to the future.
