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THE BEGINNING : Make Travel Fair was established at the end of 2006 as an online platform to communicate some of the global issues associated with travel, and to encourage education amongst travellers. We now offer a human-powered research service to assist travellers with fully exploiting the vast amounts of travel information available online. The future for Make Travel Fair is in helping drive a change in attitudes towards travel. It's not about being green, tagging an 'eco' prefix onto a service being offered, nor about creating a new industry called 'responsible travel'. It's about unleashing the potential of travel to educate, engage and inspire. The new year will see Make Travel Fair working hard to build a sustainable business with social development goals, one of which is to create a bursary for young people who want travel and 'learn the world'.

Tentative Steps

By Stephen Chapman

Make Travel Fair is not a campaign or an instruction but an education, an inspiration to help us move forward in the right direction...

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.

Stephen Chapman

Founder, Make Travel Fair

If you want to change the world, first let the world change you

What we're about

Make Travel Fair is all about educating people who want to learn more about their impact on the world around them.

The yellow american school buses are synonomous with education and are also a cultural icon of the United States of America that has been preserved since 1939. Yellow was selected for the school buses because it allowed their black lettering to be seen more easily through the weary sleep-filled eyes of morning travellers. We hope that Make Travel Fair will enable even the most world-weary eyes to see and understand some of the more important issues that face us today.

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