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Meet the people behind the products

If you'd like to see fair trade in practice and meet the people whose lives are changed, take a Traidcraft Meet the People Tour for a unique insight.

First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards 2005These tours allow small groups of people to experience life in local communities.

It is not mass tourism. We undertake tours on fair trade terms to leave those we visit better off and more empowered than before.

Traidcraft has been highly commended in the 2005 Responsible Tourism Awards for Best Tour Operator.

To find out more

Call 0870 444 1774 for a tour dossier, email traidcraft@skedaddle.co.uk or see a list of our tours below.

Our tours

 
Northern Thailand Meet the People Tour
Northern Thailand Meet the People Tour
Thailand is a country rich in cultural and ethnic diversity. It has a remarkable heritage of ancient crafts of all kinds. Setting off from Bangkok, this tour takes us through some of the north-eastern and northern areas seldom frequented by tourists.
 
South Africa Meet the People Tour
South Africa Meet the People Tour
South Africa is a big and truly beautiful country with a unique history and culture. This holiday explores the wide-open spaces, culture, and history of the Northern and Western Cape Provinces of the country.
 
India Highlights Meet the People Tour
India Highlights Meet the People Tour
This long established tour is designed to provide you with an insight into the diversity of this fascinating country while visiting several Traidcraft suppliers and seeing the role and impact of fair trade first hand across foods and crafts producers.
 
Vietnam Meet the People Tour
Vietnam Meet the People Tour
Beginning in Hanoi and ending in Ho Chi Minh City, this journey through Vietnam takes in the beautiful mountains and beaches, and visits the craft producers who supply Traidcraft.
 
Southern Thailand Meet the People Tour
Southern Thailand Meet the People Tour
This exciting journey through Thailand's southern peninsula is for those looking for a more active insight into this beautiful country.
 
Southern India Tea Tour
Southern India Tea Tour
A classic journey across Southern India that gives you an amazing insight into a new culture and way of life. Join us and travel through a landscape of beautiful mountains and coastal areas.
 
Costa Rica and Nicaragua Meet the People Tour
Costa Rica and Nicaragua Meet the People Tour
This tour is a great combination of stunning scenery, wildlife, culture, politics and fair trade. Visiting cloud forests, beaches and hot springs, we will meet coffee producers and sugar and pineapple growers.
 
Sri Lanka Meet the People Tour
Sri Lanka Meet the People Tour
This tour combines producer visits to Golden Palm and Gospel House with a first-hand insight into the ancient history, culture and people of this fascinating country.
 
Cuba Meet the People Tour
Cuba Meet the People Tour
This tour offers a rare opportunity to learn about and enjoy this intriguing country. The striking friendliness of the people helps us to see first-hand how fair trade works.
 
West India Meet the People Tour
West India Meet the People Tour
Western India is famous for its textiles, crafts and cultural and social diversity. This trip explores the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujurat, visiting textile producers.
 
Bangladesh Meet the People Tour
Bangladesh Meet the People Tour
Bangladesh was the first country Traidcraft sourced products from and this tour takes us to visit producer groups who featured in the first ever catalogue.
 
Chile Meet the People Tour
Chile Meet the People Tour
The land of earth, fire and ice, Chile is a stunningly beautiful and varied country. These tours give us a fascinating insight into Chile’s cultural and recent political history as well as experience of its amazing natural scenery.
 
Philippines Meet the People Tour
Philippines Meet the People Tour
A chance to get to know the Philippines and its active fair trade scene in depth, this tour heads south from Manila, visiting cooperatives making crafts, as well as fair trade pineapple farmers.
 
Malawi and Zambia Meet the People Tour
Malawi and Zambia Meet the People Tour
Malawi is a little known gem in the heart of Africa, a small country of diverse beauty, friendly scenery and amazing wildlife. We visit a variety of craftspeople, and the smallholder sugar producers at Blantyre.
 
Peru Meet the People Tour
Peru Meet the People Tour
A two week trip to the "Land of the Inkas" to visit our producers, experience life in the Andes and at the same time enjoy some of the best sites of Southern Peru.
 
 

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As a member of the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT), our Bond provides security for money paid over by customers and for the repatriation of customers in the event of Saddle Skedaddle Limited's insolvency.

For more information, visit our Meet the People Tours website.