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Take
an alternative holiday:
A Fair Trade Tour makes
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What is a Fair Trade
Tour?
 Promotion
and awareness in the concept of Fair Trade is
growing worldwide.
Fair Traders:
- Provide opportunities for producers in developing
countries to access markets.
- Enable producers to receive a fair price for
their commodities and products.
- Ensure appropriate working conditions, avoid
exploitation of women and children, empower
communities through democratic management, encourage
bussiness transparency and promote a concern
for the environment.
- Work to reduce inequalities and disadvantaged
trading agreements between developing and developed
countries.
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in other industries, Fair Trade must be promoted
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All too often, benefits
are not given back fairly within the destination
countries and to the communities who own the very
resources that make tourism successful. Instead,
local people can suffer a deterioration in their
livelihood and wellbeing as a result of negative
environmental, social and cultural effects from
tourism activity.
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Phu Phiang aims to practise "Fair
Trade" by working towards a fairer
and sustainable tourism in Thailand.
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Our main "Goals
of Fair Trade" are to:
- Create close partnerships with local communities,
local guides and local entrepreneurs and businesses.
- Ensure there is a mutual benefit for all
involved in our activities and that fair prices,
wages and compensation are always given as
appropriate.
- Make a point of giving travellers an understanding
and appreciation for local cultures that will
provide a positive impact on host communities.
- Take care that our activities involve only
a sustainable use of natural resources, keeping
damage to the environment and ecosystem to
a minimum.
- Adhere to work standards set by the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) including those
relating to child labour, health and safety,
and human rights.
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