By choosing to travel responsibly, you become an advocate for change.
Join us in living a life well-travelled, where every journey becomes a chance to connect deeply, engage fully and leave a positive impact.
We work with you to ensure your travels support conservation, empower communities and help protect the planet’s most fragile ecosystems.
For more than three decades, we’ve championed travel as a force for good. In 2019, we launched the Steppes Fund for Change to further this commitment, ensuring every journey we curate contributes to a better world. Because of travellers like you, we’ve helped plant new forests in Brigg, supported groundbreaking research into nuclear fusion energy and partnered with transformative projects worldwide.
With your help, our profit has a purpose. Last year we donated £168,753 to impactful organisations like World Land Trust, Galapagos Conservation Trust, Seawilding and The Long Table. Our benchmark is to donate no less than 1% of our annual revenue to projects linked to carbon removal, carbon avoidance, nature restoration and community development.
When you choose Steppes Travel, you’re choosing a Certified B Corporation that meets the highest standards of social and environmental impact. Your holiday isn’t just a getaway, it’s an investment in a better future for people and the planet.
You can see our profile on B Corp here.
Travel has an environmental cost, but it can also be a catalyst for positive change when approached responsibly.
That’s why we measure and offset the carbon emissions from your flights – whether booked through us or not – through World Land Trust’s forest protection projects. Flying in premium cabins has a significantly larger footprint than economy, so if you upgrade, we encourage offsetting the additional emissions. By doing so, you directly support ecosystem regeneration and biodiversity conservation.
Responsible travel goes beyond offsetting flights, however; it’s about making informed choices at every step. Working with ecollective, we continuously assess and reduce our carbon footprint across all aspects of your journey. Every detail is designed with sustainability in mind, maximising the positive impact of your holiday.
With the help of ecollective, we established a carbon baseline for Steppes Travel at the start of 2025, measuring the emissions of our operations at home and our supply chain overseas. This measurement will not only help us take steps towards offering you a more carbon-light holiday, but it will strengthen our resolve to maximise the positive impact of your travels. By selecting stays with our carefully chosen partners, you’re directly supporting properties that prioritise conservation, community and carbon reduction.
While there’s no universal standard for measuring the positive impact of tourism, we believe that applying a climate action strategy of reduce, remove and restore moves us closer to ‘net positive’ travel.
We align our efforts to enhance the positive outcomes of your travels with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Not only do these goals offer a comprehensive guide to solving the challenges facing our world, but they act as a focal point around which we can all rally.
By focusing on three key areas – conservation, community and carbon – we ensure that your journey supports meaningful change. Whether it’s funding reforestation, backing local community initiatives or championing wildlife protection, your trip directly contributes to causes that matter.
Travel is a privilege, and your choices shape its future.
Here’s how you can ensure your journey has a meaningful impact:
We hope you’ll join us in refining the way we travel, ensuring it remains a privilege for future generations to cherish.
There’s nothing better than travel that’s as positive to your wellbeing as it is to the wellbeing of your hosts and their homes. To see how we put these principles into action, explore a hand-picked selection of our holiday ideas, properties and experiences for yourself.
Our knowledge, curiosity and expertise set us apart, driving us to create remarkable holidays and Beautiful Adventures tailored perfectly to you, carefully curated to help protect and conserve our planet.
Are you ready to Discover Extraordinary?
