The PATA Traveller's Code was approved by the PATA Sustainable Tourism Committee at its April 13, 2002 meeting in New Delhi, India. PATA Traveller’s Code: Sustaining Indigenous Cultures
“Travel is a passage through other people’s lives and other people’s places.”

1. Be Flexible: Are you prepared to accept cultures and practices different from your own?
2. Choose Responsibly: Have you elected to support businesses that clearly and actively address the cultural and environmental concerns of the locale you are visiting?
3. Do Your Homework: Have you done any research about the people and places you plan to visit so you may avoid what may innocently offend them or harm their environment?
4. Be Aware: Are you informed of the holidays, holy days, and general religious and social customs of the places you visit?
5. Support Local Enterprise: Have you made a commitment to contribute to the local economy by using businesses that economically support the community you are visiting, eating in local restaurants and buying locally made artisan crafts as remembrances of your trip?
6. Be Respectful and Observant: Are you willing to respect local laws that may include restrictions of your usage of or access to places and things that may harm or otherwise erode the environment or alter or run counter to the places you visit?

Copyright (c) 2002 by the Pacific Asia Travel Association.This code may be reproduced freely with full credit to the Pacific Asia Travel Association.