founder’s message
“Travel the world responsibly,
experience it THE Locals’ Way;
Nobody knows THE BEST of local locations THAN the locals.
The best geographic terrains, the best filming/photography sites, the best cultural experiences, the best base camping sites, the best river kayaking/rafting locations, the best fishing spots, the best foods, the best of everything that is local…”
– Mr. Fromer, certified NATGEO Geotourism Ambassador
The Founding International Field Specialist (Mr. Zanjan Fromer) is reaching 200,000+ overseas hours of non-stop, ‘out in the field’/overseas, transitional social economic development. When comparing Mr. Fromer’s overseas hours with a FAA Certification for Pilot License – a Captain or First Officer of an airline flight requires 1,500 hours of total flight time as well as other requirements for certification – Mr. Fromer, Founder of www.GERtoGER.org and www.Responsible.Tours and www.Zanjan-Fromer.com, has sufficiently met those basic LEADERSHIP requirements with his approaching 200,000+ hours of continuous overseas social economic development works; learn more via the aforementioned websites.
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CHOOSE YOUR GEOTOURISM DESTINATION
You’ve done the “A Typical” Sightseeing Trip with standard operators – now it’s time to really explore what most overlook… real cultural adventures with the locals. Just take a moment to image trekking, horseback riding, kayaking, winter fat-bike riding, tracking wildlife, etc., in remotely pristine locations with locals that are not polluted by competitive mass tourism. You can rest assured that you can breath easily, there are no selfie-stick competitions nor shoulder-to-shoulder bumping to get that amazing shot in the outback/bush. Nobody knows outback/bush routes like the locals; www.Responsible.Tours aims to develop customized trips around the world that focus on bush lifestyles, cultures, adventures, fishing, subsistence hunting (ethical for survival), etc., that are uniquely packaged into customized trips.
www.Responsible.Tours’ website is dedicated to Native peoples of the world, its bush-peoples, tribes, locals, variety of travel routes (on and off the beaten path), local-lifestyles, and more! (the founder, “Adventure-Studio.com” and “GERtoGER.org“, is an expert on remote rural lifestyles – he, himself, was born on a remotely located small Alaskan fishing island or “village” called Petersburg, Alaska, and is an Alaskan Tlingit – a Native American)
India’s Ancient Spice Route
Women Inspiring Women – India
Remote Rural Yoga – India
An Astonishing Overland Expedition Across Mongolia
Mongolia’s Karakorum and the Mind-Body Relaxing Tsenher Hot Springs
Horseback Riding from Terelj National Park to Mongolia’s Chinggis Khan’s Statue
DOG SLEDDING ALASKA’S FAMED IDITAROD TRAIL
Tracking the Elusive Alaskan Bison by Fat Bikes in Alaska
Fishing the Monster Pikes of Alaska
GETTING TO YOUR LOCATIONS
ONE STOP ‘GLOBAL’ RESPONSIBLE TOURISM SHOP
We are the TESTED, TRIED AND INTERNATIONALLY AWARDED SPECIALISTS and PRACTITIONERS that are OUT IN THE FIELD;
OUR MISSION is to make RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL
FUN, UPLIFTING and BENEFICIAL!
WE MAKE CHOOSING WISELY EASY
REALLY GET OUT THERE AND EXPERIENCE REAL LOCAL CULTURAL ADVENTURES
Designed, Developed, Managed and/or Promoted by “Real Practitioners and Specialists” for the World’s Enjoyment
Responsible-Tours.org mission is to become the definitive ‘One-Stop-Shop’ global travel platform that focuses on the “Practitioners” and “Specialists” of Responsible Tourism, their associated community travel products (new and classic) and services, etc. These offers are truly unique with a community-spin, they are focused on quality service that allows our global ‘humanitarian’ initiatives to become more sustainable without negatively influencing nor offsetting local incomes and opportunities that are being generated via existing humanitarian trips and initiatives.
It’s our social and economic development mission to advance global business-linkages and assist in ethically sustaining these travel products, services and destinations; especially for rural communities that have natural assets however may not be able to 100% professionally/sustainably link themselves to the greater tourism industry. Hence, Responsible-Tours.org is establishing an alliance of mix-industry professionals and communities ‘from around the world’ with the mission to advance these truly unique products, services, networks, etc., for the greater ‘Global’ tourism industry to enjoy and/or contract (tour operators, travel agents, individuals, etc.).
WE ARE INTERNATIONAL PROS
WE ARE THE ONES WHO DO THE WORKS AND GET DIRTY IN THE PROCESS
Specialists and Practitioners; The Guys and Gals that “actually spent DECADES out in the field”, getting dirty AND freezing our @$s off in -50 plus degrees (remote global locations); not just operating from a desk…
Communities’ Products/Services Development; urban to remote villages
Supply/Value Chains; Assessment, Mapping, Planning and Advancing
Film, Photography, Drone and Mass Media Campaigning; We do it all… which makes it cost effective, productive and efficient
Global Marketing Communities’ Products/Services; urban to remote villages
Destination and Country Development; Multi-Country, Country/National, Regional, Provincial, State, Village, etc.
International Travel Fairs; Rural to International Business Linkage Development
Health & Safety;
And more.
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
PRIVATE, PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS
Value Added Itinerary Development
Responsible-Tours.org is greatly familiar with the needs are requirements of International Tour Operators – you don’t desire to loose your current products but wish to diversify and create value-added programs that will make your travel portfolios more competitive for todays “Community Sensitive Travelers” who look at a company’s CSR before making that important booking… Responsible-Tours.org desires to be inclusive to the greater Global tourism industry via ethical methodologies to ensure “clear and precise” comprehensive partnerships. The world is small, there is no need to drop your current local suppliers unless absolutely necessary, we believe in creating synergies which maintains a ‘win-win’ situation to enhance existing travel products via being a value-added component/experience; example on to an existing 10 day itinerary you may desire to add on 4 extra days of “Responsible-Tours.org” locations to add that CSR component to your company itineraries.
Degree Knowledge vs
Operational Knowledge
Imagine your company or country has $1,000,000 USD to invest in RT…
Do you hire “Degree Knowledge” without any extended operational field experience?
Or hire “Operational Knowledge” a.k.a the guys and gals who have been out in the field for decades doing the works written about in books?
Watch the video to see what ELON MUSK and other GLOBAL LEADERS say?
When success is absolutely required “Operational Knowledge” is paramount as we know ‘first-hand’ all the realities: situational environs; the diverse range of rural operational stresses, psychologies, cross-cultural nuances, social cultural/social political/social economic oppression tactics etc.; the pitfalls to failure (micro to macro); a variety of rapid assessments; tactically planning and small/large action planning; community mobilization issues, lessons learned, etc.; mapping and assessing a vast variety of supply chains and their external influences – other industries, terrains, weather, special interest groups, etc.; advancing value chains; assessing and solving a variety of community issues that commonly arise; domestic/international public-private partnerships; operational risk assessments, mapping, management and coordination to combat fraud, defraud, extremism, etc.; mapping, assessing and coordinating extreme issues concerning weather/rural health/personal safety/etc.; micro to macro tested and tried solutions; product development/strengthening; project management and enhancing interlinkages (tourism, film, photography, expeditions, etc.); destination development; business linkage development; global marketing; international expos; and so much more… that are not often relayed in books and the best Universities.