When you hear write-off, you may think taxes. Not in this case. This is a writing contest on water conservation. You come up with a proposal to better a part of the world, and a travel company will send you there for your efforts. The four ways ...
Those are the categories: Health, Environment, Education, Sport.
The contest is being put on by a nonprofit called travel2change, and aims "to identify and fund the most creative ideas or proposals for improving the sustainable management of water in travel destinations."
You may have heard that everybody hates a tourist. Some possible reasons: Folks who come to a place, take pictures, spend money and leave behind their garbage.
It doesn't have to be that way. The idea here is to generate proposals and travel ideas that have a positive impact on the lives of local communities, involving a trip where you do something "with" and "for" residents in the place you visit. Drop a stone in the water, and it creates ripples. The same idea applies here.
Back to the four reasons, the person with the best idea for rethinking travel around the theme of water wins a trip to the spot they've chosen, along with support to make the project a reality.
Support for this comes from an international travel company called Kuoni. Winning entries will be chosen by a travel2change jury and a jury of your peers (on the site).
The deadline for the first contest comes soon, as in July 10. But there's more in store, according to organizers. The rest is a secret for now.
Think about it: This doesn't have to be a boring, do-good, all-work-and-no-play kind of trip.
Rethinking travel around the theme of water? The possibilities are endless.
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