Responsible Travel
We design our work at the intersection of a few simple commitments:
→ Prioritising slow travel, small groups, and unhurried engagement.
→ Respecting the integrity of landscape, livelihood, and everyday life.
→ Offering meaningful journeys shaped by lived narratives and local knowledge.
→ Working in active collaboration with communities, with shared agency and fair participation.
→ Acknowledging that all travel carries impact, and consciously working to minimise harm while strengthening long term value.
These commitments help us remain accountable to the places we work in, the people we collaborate with, and the travellers who journey with us.
Our Responsible Travel approach
The experiences we design carry responsibility.
Travel does more than move people across geographies. The experiences we design therefore carry responsibility.
→ It shapes perception, influences local economies, and quietly alters how places are understood and remembered.
→ They must reflect context, strengthen dignity, and allow both host and guest to engage with awareness.
→ What follows is how that responsibility takes form in practice.
Culinary experiences
When you dine with us, you taste tradition.
Food is more than sustenance. It is identity, it is life, it is part of the circulatory system of a place.
→ Sourced from local farms, shaped by season, and rooted in inherited practice, it carries agricultural rhythms, memory, and labour within it.
→ What appears on a plate reflects soil conditions, climate, preservation techniques, and shared knowledge passed across generations.
→ When you eat with us, you are not simply dining; you are participating in an ecosystem of interdependence that sustains both land and livelihood.
Traditional Stays
We prioritize traditional stays.
Architecture is local knowledge made visible.
→ Built with vernacular materials and indigenous techniques and available resources.
→ Structures that responds to rainfall, terrain, seismic conditions.
→ They are shaped by necessity, ingenuity, and generational learning.
→ These built forms hold climate intelligence and social meaning within them.
→ When you stay in these spaces, you encounter not just shelter, but accumulated wisdom that continues to evolve with time.
Growing with the locals
Local Growth and Livelihood
Livelihoods are foundational to continuity.
→ From cooks and guides to farmers and drivers, participation extends beyond employment into shared agency and skill development.
→ We ensure fair compensation and direct between 65 to 70 percent of trip expenditure toward local partners and service providers, so economic value remains within the communities that host us.
→ Responsible tourism, for us, also extends to supporting local self help groups, collaborating with regional organisations, and contributing to research and conservation efforts that strengthen long term resilience.
Our TOurs, Small Groups
Small groups shape lighter presence.
→ By limiting numbers, we reduce pressure on fragile ecologies and intimate social environments.
→ Fewer people allow for quieter engagement, slower movement, and conversations that are not crowded out by noise.
→ Scale directly influences impact, and we choose to move in ways that respect that relationship.
slow travel, time travel
Our journeys are structured yet unhurried
→ Slow travelling gives you room for pauses, walks, shared meals, and conversations that unfold naturally.
→ Intentional slow paced journey allows you to bond with the locals and the place.
the impact
Minimising Negative Impact, Maximising Positive Impact
All travel carries consequences. We do not claim neutrality.
→ Our responsibility is to remain aware of our footprint and to act with restraint and intention.
→ We work consciously to reduce disruption while strengthening social, cultural, and economic resilience over time.
→ The aim is simple: that what remains after we leave is continuity, not strain.
If you are curious about travelling thoughtfully across the Northeast India, feel free to reach out.
We welcome conversation, questions, and shared curiosity.
Talk to us
Email: hello@talesofnortheast.com
Contact: +91 7005630408, +91 8011662032