Profile: Ron Gluckman, a travel writer in Asia

Ron Gluckman is an American journalist who has been based in Asia for 16 years, working out of Hong Kong, Beijing and Bangkok. He’s travelled around Asia extensively and written for publications including Time, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Ron’s break in travel writing came by accident when he was researching background for a [...]

Lonely Planet’s Tom Hall picks his top five destinations

Working for one of the world’s largest travel guide companies has its perks, and for Tom Hall, as an editor and spokesperson for sustainable and responsible travel, it’s allowed him to fulfil his travel dreams.
Tom first started working for Lonely Planet eight years ago, and he’s enjoyed the experience.
He said: “I’ve been working for Lonely [...]

PRETOMA: Looking after turtles in Costa Rica

The Programa Restauracion de Tortugas Marinas (PRETOMA) has been looking after turtles in Costa Rica for over a decade. The organisation was setup in 1996 to assist with the yearly nesting of turtles on some of Costa Rica’s beaches. The turtles are diminishing in numbers and PRETOMA offers placements where volunteers look after and care [...]

Inspire Kenya: Animal conservation and community work

Inspire Kenya is an organisation that as Matthew Muckle, who founded and owns the company states: “Offers volunteering breaks for people to go and do worthwhile things in Kenya.” These worthwhile projects include working with orphans, wildlife conservation and Inspire Kenya now offers media placements at the Kenyan Times.
The company has been going since 2006 [...]

Quest underseas: responsible and sustainable dive ecotourism

Chris Williams
Operations Manager, Quest Underseas
http://www.questoverseas.com/underseas/
What does your organisation offer?
Offers people a chance to research marine conservation and get diving experience at the same time, in an ethical way because they are giving something back to the community.
Where do you run trips?
We have two destinations, Honduras and Mozambique.
We try to run trips that allow our volunteers [...]

Health advice for travellers

Claire Stringer, Travel Health Nurse Advisor
Offers advice to the medical industry on issues around travel health
How would the travel advice you give to a volunteer differ to from that you give to an ordinary traveller?
The circumstances can be very different and varied, we would give specialist advice to those who are volunteering. If they are [...]