Local travel company wins tourism award

Adventure Alternative, which is based inPortstewart won the gold award in the Best for Poverty Reduction category. Now in their 11th year, the World Responsible Tourism Awards are headline sponsored by the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Tourism, and were founded in 2004 to celebrate the most inspiring stories in responsible tourism. Best for poverty reduction is awarded to a tourism organisation with a creative and long-term approach to reducing poverty among local communities. Over 20 years, Adventure Alternative has developed companies in Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania, Malaysia, Morocco and Russia using responsible tourism and equitable contracts to create sustainable livelihoods and help people out of poverty…READ MORE