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Tour Operators Promoting Sustainability (TOPS)

These tour operators are going the extra mile to promote sustainable tourism! As members of the Rainforest Alliance's Tour Operators Promoting Sustainability (TOPS) program, they've made a special commitment to conserve natural resources and provide sustainable livelihoods for the local communities where they work.

Click on each company's name to learn more about their exciting tours, destinations, and sustainability initiatives.

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Costa Rica

Aventuras Tierra Verde

Aventuras Tierra Verde is an inbound tour operator in Costa Rica founded in 1995. We are known for offering top-quality service because of our high-quality, unique itineraries and trips that aim to promote environmental conservation and sustainable development in Costa Rica.

 

Costa Rica Reps

Costa Rica offers visitors everything from active volcanoes to isolated tropical beaches; both Caribbean and Pacific coasts; wetlands and the last tropical dry forest reserves on our continent; and your choice of rain, cloud, or transitional forests!

 

Costa Rica Sun Tours

We believe that sustainable tourism can minimize negative effects from travel by helping conserve the environment, preserving local cultures, and promoting authentic cultural exchange. Our goal is to make sure that generations to come are able to enjoy the vast natural and cultural riches of beautiful Costa Rica.

 

Horizontes

Each program designed by Horizontes aims to be a perfect vacation and an enriching life experience that combines all the elements of fun, safe adventure, learning, and personal growth, while promoting a greater understanding of nature and humankind. Horizontes aims to create appreciation of Costa Rica's conservation areas and contemporary culture.

 

Il Viaggio

We offer different services including reservations for hotels, lodges, resorts, bed & breakfasts, or whatever kind of accommodation our client would like. We organize a wide variety of activities and tours and have a luxury transportation service for land, air, and water travel.

 

Swiss Travel

Swiss Travel is the leading tour operator in Costa Rica and proudly offers complete services for individual, group, incentive, and cruise ship travelers, always with a view towards responsibility and respect towards our environment and people, framed by our incredible tropical biodiversity.

 

Travel Excellence

Since 1996, Travel Excellence has offered innovative ideas that allow maximum enjoyment of the natural wealth of our country. As an inbound tour operator, we offer all of the specialized services required to manage a high-quality business, offering customers trips for relaxation, adventure, and education that will make them want to come back again and again.

 

Valle Dorado

We offer personalized, flexible, and fast service as we take care of every detail of your Costa Rican vacation. Travel arrangements including hotel reservations, car rentals, sport fishing, diving, river rafting, domestic flights, airplane charters, canopy tours, aerial trams, honeymoons, nature tour packages and others are part of our daily activities.

 

Ecuador

Ecoventura

Darwin's Enchanted Isles - a volcanic archipelago on the equator 600 miles west of the Ecuadorian coast - are one of our planet's most precious and unique ecosystems, home to an extraordinary profusion of exotic, often endemic flora and fauna. This remote island group, with its dramatic and desolate beauty, is home to some of the most unique species in the world.

 

Surtrek

Founded in 1993, Surtrek Ecuador & Galapagos Tours is an Ecuadorian tour operator specializing in custom, first-class, and luxury travel for groups and individuals who seek unique and unforgettable experiences in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, and South America.

 

Guatemala

Four Directions

Four Directions arranges historic-cultural and natural tours in the Maya world - Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The company was founded in 1996 to offer visitors the opportunity to learn about and experience the Maya culture, providing first-class, efficient, and sustainable tourism services that aim to include the communities and protect the environment.

 

Martsam

It is our pleasure to offer our wide variety of tours and travel services in the Mayan world. They have been designed with our clients' interests in archaeology, nature, culture, conservation, and adventure in mind.

 

Viaventure

Viaventure is a tour operator that operates in Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, creating trips that are fun, memorable, and exciting as well as organized, unique, safe, and stress-free.

 

Mexico

Explora, Ecoturismo y Aventura

In Chiapas, the options offered by nature tourism are varied, from rustic cabins in the jungle to complete sailing expedition packages on kayaks and rafts, to penetrating into the depths of the earth while exploring caves. Chiapas is attractive to the tourist looking to connect with nature and the indigenous people of this land. We always express absolute respect to the natural and cultural environment of the sites we visit.

Nicaragua

Careli Tours

Careli Tours proudly promotes tourism destinations such as the indigenous communities of the Pacific and Caribbean coast; the colonial cities of León and Granada; the three UNESCO biosphere reserves of Bosawas, Isla de Ometepe, and Indio Maíz-Río San Juan; 25 impressive volcanoes, 6 of them still active and 12 with crater lakes; and more.

 

Detour Viajes y Cultura

DETOUR Travel & Culture is an in-bound tour operator dedicated to providing sustainable tourist services for stays or expeditions throughout Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

 

Gray Line Nicaragua

Gray Line Tours is a leading tour operator in Nicaragua and Central America. It is affiliated with the renowned Gray Line Worldwide, which provides tourism and business travel services worldwide.

 

Green Pathways

Green Pathways is a sustainable tour operator based in Nicaragua, offering tours that are inspired by the treasures of the natural world. From the jungle-fringed Rio San Juan to the cool mountains of Jinotega, we have created eco-adventure tours to the most beautiful regions Nicaragua has to offer.

 

Matagalpa Tours

Matagalpa Tours specializes in taking you to the extraordinary, less explored areas of Nicaragua. The main focus is on trekking, rural community tourism, agrotourism, mountain bike tours, and jungle expeditions in northern Nicaragua. In addition, we offer complete Nicaraguan packages with a socio-economic focus that include visits to labor, women, Fair Trade, and farmer organizations.

 

ORO Travel

ORO Travel aims to constantly improve our programs and offer unique products, whether it’s a private gourmet picnic on the beach, an exclusive dinner at the private colonial home of a local personality, or kayaking through natural canals formed by scattered tropical islands, where thriving plant life and exuberant bird life can both be seen.

 

Solentiname Tours

Solentiname Tours is the only tour operator and destination management company in Nicaragua with the TINKTO Independent Tourism Guide Seal of Quality. We offer services for groups, families, incentive travelers, conferences, and conventions.

 

Va Pues Tours

Offering personalized travel services, including customized itineraries, day tours, transportation services, accommodations, and knowledgeable guides, our team of professionals comes with extensive and in-depth knowledge of Nicaragua’s premier destinations and lesser-known regions.

 

Peru

Condor Travel

We invite you to be part of a marvelous trip to the best destinations in South America, where you will be not just a spectator, but an important actor in the well-being that your visit creates in each place.

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