Profile
The trips organized allow travelers to fully enjoy the nature of the country visited, while encouraging long-term development, discovery and true understanding of the regional and the local peoples’ history. The trips also allow local traditions and cultures to be discovered and fun is had by all through various sports and activities.
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The Founders
The founders, Karim Haggar and Anthony Chamy, are childhood friends that live in Montreal but are lucky enough to travel the world. Anthony is born and raised in Montreal but spent most of his summers in Egypt, where his parents were born. He obtained his B.Com degree at McGill and has recently returned from a 13-month-long traveling job that took him around the globe. He has, for the past 3 years, worked in the marina industry helping a European company expand in the American hemisphere.
Karim, on the other hand, is born and raised in the great Mediterranean city of Alexandria, and has been living in Montreal for several years now. He has an Industrial Engineering degree from l’École Polytechnique de Montréal and a Master’s degree in Innovation Management. Karim is currently a Ph.D candidate and an active researcher for the MINE project (Managing Innovation in the New Economy). The MINE project is currently the largest management research project in Canada.
Objectives and Vision
We want to be the tour operator of choice that shifted the paradigm of tourism from individual consumption to cultural and environmental conservation.
We are looking to reinvent the tourism industry. We would like to become the tour operator of choice when it comes to enthusiastic travelers searching for world discovery. We want to have a positively significant impact on the planet’s environment and its conservation.
Mission
First of all, we are dedicating ourselves to sustaining the growth of this company in the long term. Second of all, we are dedicating ourselves to our clients, the travelers, by offering them customizable trips that will suit their needs by helping them to live unique, intense and unforgettable experiences.
We pledge to mark the lives of the people who accompany us and to give them the trip of a lifetime. We also promise to continuously innovate and reinvent ourselves by finding solutions that better align tourism with long-term sustainable development.
Finally, we pledge to bring together the travelers and the nature that surrounds them, as well as the local peoples of the regions visited, and this with the intent to integrate the tourist in the local culture and to have them benefit from the destinations’ nature. To have the traveler live unique experiences while conserving the environment and the cultural integrity of the destinations.
We offer affordable, alternative vacations while bringing the tourist closer to the country's natural and social environment!
Social Responsibility
We contribute to improving the ecosystems we visit as well as positively influence the international cooperation by bringing people closer together. Here's how:
- Our trips are ones of exploration of nature and discovery of culture through which we facilitate the good values we believe in (those of the responsible tourist as well as the good old fashioned traditional values of the local populaiton).
- We offer the necessary tools to the group leaders (Creative Organizers) in order to allow them to share their passion and patriotism towards their country of origin while creating strong bonds between the travellers.
- The travellers end up bringing the organizers closer to their country of origin and favor the creation of sustainable development community projects apart from the standard commercial activities derived from putting people together!
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