When traveling it can be hard to know where your money ends up. Although we would like our money to benefit the local community, there are middlemen who manage to get in between us, taking big margins. We think these hidden power dynamics often come at a great cost to locally owned businesses/cooperatives and their communities, especially those in the Global South.
A United Nations report [1] shows that out of every $100 spent in the Global South, only $5 stays in the local economy. We want to help change this.
Our shared vision as an open cooperative is to contribute to the Commons by creating Free/Libre Open Source Software to accelerate the transition to an environmentally regenerative and economically just travel ecosystem. We want to shape protocols that meet the needs of passionate local adventure hosts.
