At Tours Tasmania, responsible travel isn’t a slogan. It’s how we operate. We carefully consider the impact of every tour on Tasmania’s environment, communities, and culture. From limiting group sizes to supporting local businesses and avoiding overcrowded sites, we design our experiences to protect what makes this island special, now and into the future. We invite our guests to tread lightly, act thoughtfully, and join us in protecting and preserving the places we explore together.
Environmental Responsibility
At Tours Tasmania, we are passionate about showcasing the natural beauty of our island while preserving it for future generations. We love sharing Tasmania’s stunning landscapes, unique native flora, and incredible wildlife with our guests — and we do so with a strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
Before entering our national parks, we educate all guests on minimal impact bushwalking and the Leave No Trace principles. These practices help ensure that our presence has as little impact as possible on the fragile environments we visit.
We operate small group tours, with a maximum of 20 guests per group, most groups are a maximum of 10 guests. This allows our guides to create more personal, high-quality experiences, while significantly reducing our environmental footprint.
Our Tour Guides are passionate about Tasmania’s environment and wildlife. They provide informed and respectful interpretation during our walks, helping to ensure minimal disturbance to wildlife by encouraging observation from appropriate distances and educating guests on how to view animals with patience and care.
To protect the natural areas we visit, all activities are confined to designated walking tracks and boardwalks to avoid damaging sensitive habitats.
In addition to our own initiatives, we proudly align ourselves with environmental ambassadors such as Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary and the Tasmanian Devil Unzoo, who share our values in wildlife conservation and education.
Economic Responsibility
At Tours Tasmania, economic responsibility means more than just financial success – it’s about building a sustainable business that values people, community and ethical practices.
Fair Employment Practices
We offer fair wages and benefits, with work-life balance at the heart of our employment agreements. All staff enjoy weekends and public holidays off, supporting a healthy and happy workforce. As a woman-owned business, we proudly champion diversity and actively promote women’s employment within the tour guiding industry.
Supporting Women-Owned Businesses
We deliberately choose to partner with and support women-owned businesses and professionals across a range of sectors – whether local or remote – championing women’s economic empowerment and fostering diverse, flexible working opportunities.
Ethical Financial Management
Our pricing is transparent and straightforward, with a single global price for each tour. We reject exploitative practices like algorithm-driven surge pricing, focusing instead on fair and ethical business.
Community Engagement
Our tours deliberately include stops at businesses and locations that support local employment and provide high-quality experiences for our guests. This approach helps sustain regional economies while enriching the journey for everyone involved.
Balancing Profit with Purpose
Our people come first – the well-being of our staff is the cornerstone of our business. We prioritize long-term sustainability and a workplace culture where everyone thrives, because we know that without our team, there is no Tours Tasmania.
Social Responsibility
At Tours Tasmania, social responsibility means protecting the communities, environments, and cultural values that make this island so special, while ensuring tourism remains a force for good.
We are deeply aware of the challenges faced by destinations around the world, where unchecked tourism growth and the rise of short-term rentals like Airbnb have displaced residents, strained infrastructure, and diminished the visitor experience. We believe Tasmania must learn from places like Barcelona, Amsterdam and Venice and take a proactive approach to managing growth before it becomes unmanageable.
That’s why we support a tourism model that respects capacity limits, protects local character, and ensures Tasmanians continue to benefit from the industry long-term. We believe it’s okay for places to be fully booked – and that demand can be balanced by encouraging off-season travel. We offer full tour schedules year-round, supporting regional economies more sustainably.
To reduce our own impact, we have intentionally increased the number of small vehicles in our fleet and operate with smaller group sizes. We are committing to creating more thoughtful, flexible, and intimate experiences. Large tour buses can overwhelm quiet destinations and erode the very qualities that make Tasmania special. Small group travel, on the other hand, allows for deeper connections with our guides, local communities, and the Tasmanian landscape, while preserving the peace and integrity of the places we visit.
Through careful tour design, long-standing partnerships, and responsible visitor education, we aim to create meaningful, respectful connections between our guests, the environment, and the people who call Tasmania home.
