These are Adventures to Peru’s key principles and goals for operating its tours and business in an environmentally and socially responsible way.

• Use locally owned infrastructure for accommodation and transport where possible.
• Use the most reputable over-land transport company or airline available.
• Spread the financial benefits amongst local people and operators.
• Provide employment and leadership opportunities for local people.
• Respect local customs and culture and insist that visitors do the same.
• Provide safe trips for our staff and travelers.
• Educate travelers and our operators about how and why we choose to travel this way.
• Limit the negative impacts to daily lifestyles of local people not involved with our groups.
• Limit the physical impact of trips in all destination communities – particularly sensitive natural and cultural environments.
• Provide support to organizations and local communities visited by our groups.
• Provide fun enjoyable trips to our travelers.
• Provide opportunities for travelers to interact with local people.
• Actively ban leader and passenger participation in, or endorsement of, commercial sexual activities or illegal drug use on our trips.
• Actively discourage the participation of our groups in activities which exploit animals – wild or domestic.
• Use local operators that adhere to Adventures to Peru’s Responsible Travel Philosophies and that provide the best possible service to our travelers and staff.
• Work to prevent the exploitation of children in tourism.
• Support and encourage fair employment practices.
• Give our travelers the best possible value.