EXO Travel & EXO Foundation

EXO Travel and EXO Found­a­tion were “Good Tour­ism” Part­ners from May 2023 to Decem­ber 2025. This is the archive page for their “GT” Part­ner messages.

EXO Travel logoEXO Travel’s pur­pose is to expand hori­zons & cre­ate last­ing pos­it­ive impacts through travel. It comes from our desire to keep our jour­ney pos­it­ive and inspir­ing. To con­tin­ue grow­ing as a com­pany and as people. To con­tin­ue to inspire our guests to keep explor­ing, dis­cov­er­ing and trav­el­ing while also tak­ing care of our plan­et and to give back as much as we can.

We have always believed in travel as a force for good and, since day one, sus­tain­ab­il­ity has been at the centre of everything we do. And, as a cer­ti­fied B Cor­por­a­tion, we have a clear roadmap for that jour­ney as we strive to become an even more pos­it­ive influ­ence on our des­tin­a­tions, the envir­on­ment and all of our stakeholders.

EXO Foundation logoEXO Found­a­tion aims to make des­tin­a­tions bet­ter places for people to live in and for trav­el­lers to vis­it. We are a non-profit organ­isa­tion based in South­east Asia sup­port­ing loc­al grass­roots organ­iz­a­tions in nine coun­tries: Cam­bod­ia, Indone­sia, Japan, Laos, Malay­sia, Myan­mar (Burma), Thai­l­and, Viet­nam, Singapore.

Our vis­ion is to be a driv­ing force in act­ively fos­ter­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and improv­ing pos­it­ive soci­et­al and envir­on­ment­al changes through the pro­mo­tion of respons­ible tour­ism. Our ambi­tion is to pave the way for main­stream­ing good prac­tices with­in the travel industry in Asia. We aim to max­im­ise the poten­tial for tour­ism to become a tool for poverty alle­vi­ation and sus­tain­able development.

From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali


From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali

Tour­ism built Bali’s repu­ta­tion but nearly broke its reefs. Now, the same industry is becom­ing a force for recovery.

Led by Liv­ing­seas Asia, a pion­eer­ing dive oper­at­or in Padang­bai, a grow­ing num­ber of vis­it­ors are return­ing not to take, but to give back. They are reviv­ing cor­al eco­sys­tems one dive at a time.

Read More From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali

Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so


Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so. Photo by Ezra Kaunang for NTTI

Per­haps 80% of the plastic in our oceans gets there via rivers. In Man­ado, Indone­sia the grass­roots No-Trash River pro­ject uses simple bar­ri­ers to catch plastic waste, pre­vent­ing it from reach­ing the Bunaken Mar­ine Park and spoil­ing its dive tour­ism hotspots.

Learn more from Anna Cler­ici, co-founder of the No-Trash Tri­angle Ini­ti­at­ive which is an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

Read More Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so

Thailand’s waterways to become quieter, cleaner as electric engine secures finance


POSITIV's EV Boat electric boat engine secures EXO finance which may mean Thailand's waterways are set to become quieter and cleaner

A social enter­prise design­ing low-car­bon, com­munity-based tour­ism exper­i­ences has launched Thailand’s first elec­tric long­tail boat engine, the EV Boat, redu­cing car­bon emis­sions by 96% and cut­ting fuel costs dramatically.

What will POSITIV Group do with a USD 20,000 micro­loan from EXO Foundation’s Reset Tour­ism Fund?

Read More Thailand’s waterways to become quieter, cleaner as electric engine secures finance

How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam


How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam

In the heart of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, plastic waste is more than an envir­on­ment­al issue; it is a com­munity challenge. 

Anh Duong Cen­ter is facing up to the chal­lenge by turn­ing plastic waste into products, learn­ings, and livelihoods. 

Their innov­at­ive school-based mod­el has earned recog­ni­tion from the 2025 EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards in the ‘People’ category.

Read More How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam

You’re invited: Learn about best practices at the EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards


EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards empowering sustainable tourism in Asia

You’re invited to the cere­mony of the third edi­tion of the EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards to take place on Octo­ber 1! 

This spe­cial event will hon­our out­stand­ing organ­isa­tions ded­ic­ated to pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able and respons­ible tour­ism, cel­eb­rat­ing their achieve­ments with well-deserved recog­ni­tion and awards.

What to expect …

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As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?


In Bali, water is essential to culture as well as life. As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?

The travel & tour­ism industry can be expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water, par­tic­u­larly in com­munit­ies and des­tin­a­tions in which it operates. 

Industry stake­hold­ers need not see this as a bur­den, but rather as a com­pel­ling oppor­tun­ity to mean­ing­fully engage with loc­al people on secur­ing tra­di­tion­al water sup­plies, all the while devel­op­ing more sus­tain­able water and waste man­age­ment sys­tems of their own.

Nic­olaus Sulistyo sheds light on IDEP Found­a­tion’s Bali Water Pro­tec­tion (BWP) ini­ti­at­ive; an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

Read More As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?