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The platform for responsible travel in Namibia

Tourism Supporting Conservation Trust

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TOSCO links tourism to positive outcomes for nature through supporting community conservation

Promoting responsible travel the Namibian way

HOW WE WORK

Linking tourism and conservation through

OUR CLIMATE PROJECTS

Climate

Linking tourism and conservation through

OUR EDUCATION PROJECTS

Education

Linking tourism and conservation through

OUR WILDLIFE PROJECTS

Wildlife

TOSCO (Tourism Supporting Conservation Trust) is the leading organisation in promoting responsible travel in Namibia, by bringing tourism into harmony with nature.

Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide and in Namibia. With its wide-open landscapes, free-roaming wildlife and authentic traditional cultures, Namibia will continue to be an inspiration for travellers from all around the world. For tourism to be sustainable, it needs to support the conservation efforts that secure the natural resources that the industry depends on.

TOSCO is an NGO that offers tourism businesses a platform to link travel to positive conservation outcomes, by supporting the communities that look after it. Rural communities have been central to Namibia’s conservation success story, and so the relationship between tourism and nature can only be strengthened and deepened when travel contributes to poverty alleviation and rural economic development. This way, communities can benefit from maintaining a healthy environment.

This is how TOSCO assists tourism businesses in being the responsible agents that travellers are looking for.

Travel responsibly, the Namibian way!

Our vision is for tourism and nature to flourish in harmony. Tourism members go up as natural ecosystems grow more diverse and spectacular, whilst benefiting local communities for the natural resources that they conserve, in a self-sustainable and infinite way.

We promote responsible travel by linking tourism and conservation within three key themes:

Climate

Support climate change mitigation and climate resilient livelihoods whilst sequestering tourism carbons.

Education

Support awareness and capacity building for sustainable tourism and conservation within the travel community, rural communities and amongst youth.

Wildlife

Support landscape conservation of wildlife species whilst developing tourism-related incentives to conserve.

MEMBERS JOINED TOSCO SINCE 2012

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Namibian dollar invested in conservation since 2012

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By becoming a TOSCO member you join a growing movement of responsible tourism businesses that together want to ensure a sustainable future for travel in Namibia.

Become A Member

TOSCO Buff

N$90.00

TOSCO Water Bottles

N$100.00

TOSCO Cap

N$100.00

Vanishing Kings – Lions of the Namib Desert Book

N$700.00

Vanishing Kings DVD part, A & B

N$350.00

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Agnes Dury

My immense love for the natural world made me want to devote my life to conservation from an early age. My MSc in Tourism, Society, and Environment in the Netherlands grew my passion for the role sustainable tourism can take in conservation. As an avid traveler, I understand why exploring the unknown can be so enriching for many of us and I hope future generations can still enjoy traveling. I am originally from the Netherlands, and arrived in Namibia in 2016. It appeared the ultimate country to learn what successful conservation is about.

I could not have found a better organisation than TOSCO to involve tourism in the conservation equation. I joined TOSCO in 2019, initially coordinating the Desert Lion Program, and then became manager in 2020. Apart from that, I am involved in the Wildlife Credits program on behalf of TOSCO, partnering with WWF Namibia and CCFN. Through TOSCO and working with rural communities and other conservation partners, I really got to understand what successful conservation is about. I am very excited to grow TOSCO further with the team, broadening the connection between tourism and conservation by getting more of the tourism industry to join our movement, and deepening this connection by making conservation an integral part of tourism and the travel experience. I believe TOSCO with its team and programs can make a real difference!

Lara Potma

I am very excited to grow TOSCO further with the team, broadening the connection between tourism and conservation by getting more of the tourism industry to join our movement, and deepening this connection by making conservation an integral part of tourism and the travel experience. I believe TOSCO with its team and programs can make a real difference!