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How Berber Tours Was Born • How We Operate Our Tours In Morocco
 MISSION STATEMENT
Berber Tours is committed to promoting low-impact tourism — supporting the local economy whilst retaining respect for traditional customs and way of life.
Our Policy is to employ local guides who are part of their traditional community, thus providing a sustainable income whilst protecting an established way of life.
SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Berber Tours makes every effort on each expedition to help the local populations where we can. This means hiring local guides, using local suppliers and making sure that they are given fair pay for their services. All too often, the tourist dollars never make it to the local government and most stay with the national level government through government owned travel agencies. By channeling as much of the money as possible to local governments and communities, the local people are given alternatives to selling off mining rights in their rivers, or poaching endangered animals. Tourism becomes a viable option to natural resource exploitation, leaving something wild for future generations to enjoy. Where possible, Berber Tours will also contribute to community welfare through partnerships with local agencies in developing local projects.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Berber Tours is committed to the preservation of the wilderness habitats in the remote regions explored by our trips, which are designed to promote an understanding of these regions' delicate ecosystems. We take a low-impact, self-contained approach, carrying in what we need and carrying out all garbage, leaving the environment unspoiled for future generations of explorers. Berber Tours runs most tours in the southern part of Morocco, in the delicate desert environment and High Atlas Mountains. We foster responsible tourism and require that the people who work for Berber Tours do not leave rubbish anywhere, and respect the environment with preservation of resources, flora and fauna, etc. To minimize the impact of our trips on the environment, where possible we use stoves rather than firewood for cooking meals and we burn any paper garbage from our kitchen, or which we collect from our clients. All food items originally in glass bottles will be rebottled in plastic that can be reused on each trek or recycled. Used cans, foil from the garbage fire and used batteries will be taken back to civilization by our staff and delivered to a local waste management project where these items will also be recycled.How Berber Tours Was Born • How We Operate Our Tours In Morocco |
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