Our Approach to Travel

Trove adheres to these rules when building and running programs, to ensure that trips will serve their three stakeholders: travelers, local businesses, and local economies:

🏕️ Local Expertise

Our local travel partners are some of the best in the industry, and we work with them to build us the trips that locals would want to experience. This includes locations and experiences that you couldn’t find online - the best neighborhood restaurants, the most beautiful hidden beaches, the best way to get through the city during rush hour, and the food stand that sells the best snacks. We don’t pretend to know our destinations better than someone who lives there full-time.

💴 Greater Economic Impact

Our partners optimize for economic impact in communities where we travel. We prioritize local businesses and have long-term partnerships that are mutually beneficial for travelers, travel companies, and vendors. A lot of travel revenue unavoidably ends up in the hands of big international companies (think airlines, gas companies, distributors) but we and our partners work hard to ensure the ground costs that we control end up in communities. Including our guides and local partners themselves.

⛑️ Layered Safety & Risk Management

Our partners operate year round with young travelers and service groups and have a focus on preventative safety, vendor vetting, and risk management. This same local expertise and presence is that makes the programs special is the same information that a deep understanding of communities and environments, risks and security. Paired with the global perspective from cross-national a multi-tiered approach to manage the safety of our travelers and everyone they meet along the way.

🗺️ Global Reach

In partnering with folks from around the world who we know personally, have worked with professionally for years, and who collaborate with each other, we have the benefit of both deep local knowledge and cross-cultural learning. We facilitate and share what we can with all partners and they share with each other, which improves our approaches to development, economic models, risk management, trends in travel, sustainability, and ideas for fun excursions. This is core to how we were founded, and is critical to our operational model.

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