Many of us are part of a generation raised on gap years, fast food, low budget travel, the internet, mobile phones, and are at the beginnings of adulthood. The other end of the continuum are fit, healthy babyboomers entering retirement, ready to turn their hands to some independent travel around a world that has opened up drastically during their lifetime. If we are not to trample upon and destroy the very delicate nature of the people, the places and the economies that we seek to experience, our journeys must be made with very tentative and respectful steps, approached with an almost academic concern for their preservation and positive advancement. Similarly, our everyday consumption of food, goods and resources requires closer examination and mediation in order to harmonise our global future.
Make Travel Fair was setup in May 2006 to help educate people on the issues that they should be aware of when embarking on a trip abroad, and even when staying at home. We live in an increasingly well networked world of consumerism, and we do not have to travel far before our actions can influence the livelihood of someone on the other side of the world and have a huge impact on the state of our natural world. Make Travel Fair is not a campaign or an instruction but an education, an inspiration to help us move forward in the right direction and to encourage us to think more carefully and clearly about the footprints we leave behind us.
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