Responsible traveler’s guide

• Feel free to ask your travel consultant for more information about the destination, for these little things that mean everything. Try not to spoil every part of your vacation…
• Take a look at our blog to get to know more about the destination: its culture, its customs and its history.
• Learn a few words of Reo Tahiti to impress people and chit-chat with the locals 
• Leave stress behind
• Pack basics and essentials only, make room for memories

Let's avoid...

• Stereotypes
• To stay focus on your little habits, your daily life
• To take pictures of people without asking
• To venture alone, without a guide, off the marked trails

But rather...

• Keep an open mind and be respectful
• Show your pictures to your "models" or even better, hand them a copy
• Stay on the beaten track and make sure to be accompanied and to inform someone of your itinerary

• Sort your waste and take a small bag with you to avoid throwing it away during an excursion.
• Choose an eco-friendly sun protection
• Take your flask everywhere to avoid using plastic bottles
• Turn off electrical appliances, lighting, air conditioning and shut off the tap
• Try to pick eco-responsible accommodation: try to find the coconut pictogram on our website

Let's avoid

• Keeping the same consumption habits and buying imported products 

But rather...

• Consume local products, stop by small picturesque restaurants which priotarize short circuits and buy craftsmanship
• Swap your sneakers for flip flops and live by the local lifestyle

Let's avoid

• The most popular itineraries during high season when possible 
• Touching artifacts and archaeological vestige
• Picking up seashells on the beach (someone may live in here...) and touching endangered species
   

Read more about the endangered species in French Polynesia (in French)

But rather...

• Think outside the box and choose less crowded destinations which turn out to be as beautiful