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Vegan travel: comfortable and delicious.
Vegan travel lets more and more people spend their holiday in line with their values. Yet missing transparency and thin offerings make the search hard—even though many of the changes would be easy to make.
Vegan travel is not only about finding vegan restaurants. It touches every part of being on the road: from cruelty-free shampoo to local trips and attractions that work without camel rides and snakeskin bags.
Today's paradox: good, but complicated
Why vegan travel should become the new normal
Vegan travel should not be a niche offer—it should simply be part of travelling. Because a sustainable lifestyle does not end at your own front door.
Right now it is hard work: information about the vegan options at the buffet is rare, partnerships with attractions that harm animals—a snake show at the hotel, discounted tickets for elephant rides—are not obvious, and cruelty-free products in soap and shampoo dispensers are still far too rare.
And most of it needs no financial investment at all—neither from travellers nor from accommodations and tour operators. What it needs instead is a different awareness, transparency and accessible offers, so that travel in line with animal welfare worldwide becomes the new normal.
Clearing up the stereotypes
Vegan travel is exhausting and expensive? Not at all.
Vegan travel—surely that is exhausting, expensive and only for eco nerds? Not in the slightest. Here is how vegan travel enriches your next trip:
“A vegan diet is disrespectful towards the traditional dishes of local people.”
No. Look for an open dialogue, talk to people, explain yourself. It often leads to fascinating conversations and a lot of understanding for different ways of eating. You are not the problem—the system is.
“As a vegan traveller I have to go without.”
Even when it takes some lateral thinking, travelling vegan enriches your trip in many ways. Searching for vegan food takes you into completely new corners of your destination, you ask residents and get into conversation, you talk with the chef or the waiter about the way you eat, create new dishes together and inspire others in the process. On top of that, plenty of delicious traditional dishes are already “accidentally vegan” or easy to veganise.
ChargeHorizons
What we do—together for a changed future
We bring transparency to the travel industry: with our sustainability dreamcatcher you get direct insights and can see which hotel keeps animal suffering going with your money—and where you can support something good instead.
Community building: through the community feedback in the ChargeHolidays app you learn first-hand from other vegan travellers how good the vegan buffet really was—and you become effective yourself by sharing your own observations.
We advise hotels on how to improve animal welfare. By connecting them with partners such as vegan food suppliers and makers of vegan hygiene products, we offer a simple and fast alternative.
We advise travellers—whether on business or on honeymoon. With us you get a holiday you can enjoy with a clear conscience.
Learn something new on our blog: first-hand reports and insights from travellers and locals through to NGOs working for nature and animal protection.
We are out there for you at trade fairs, TED Talks and conferences. Because only when we bring vegan travel onto the stage does it reach people's minds and hearts.
Do you have ideas on how vegan travel could get even easier? We would love to hear from you.
Next step
Curious, or ready to get active?
Read more on the blog, become a sustainable travel ambassador, or download the app and help shape the industry.