Responsible Tourism Award Tour Operator Finalists - Ultimate Safaris - 2018
Ultimate Safaris
True to its name, Ultimate Safaris provides visitors to Namibia with exactly that: The ultimate safari experience. For the conservationists at heart, Ultimate Safaris offers two peculiar conservation-themed safaris with one focusing on big cats, while the other targets giraffes. The latter tour includes three nights spent in the field with giraffe-researchers, who share their first-hand experiences of their work performed in the field with the interested visitor.
When travelling with Ultimate Safaris, be sure to book a couple of nights at their //Huab mobile camp situated in Damaraland. Apart from its ultimate exclusivity, it offers the unique opportunity to jointly track desert-adapted rhinos with the local rhino rangers.
Ultimate Safaris has from the outset been synonymous with pioneering safaris in Namibia. The company registered a separate non-profit organisation - the Conservation Travel Foundation (CTF) - which ensures that 100% of all purpose-raised funds are directed to worthy projects, as Ultimate Safaris contributed by carrying all costs related to the administration of the foundation.
“In conjunction with our valued partners, we are therefore able to re-invest into the Namibian environment and its people in a transparent and sustainable way, while following ethical business practices,” the company says. The CTF is driven by its goals and since its small beginnings in 2006, it has grown and become one of Namibia’s non-profit organisations, which have a high impact, with their funding derived from Ultimate Safaris’ conservation-oriented travel clientele.
The company records show that Ultimate Safaris raised a staggering N$ 1.36 million for conservation and rural development in Namibia during the previous year. At 1.5% of overall commercial revenue this fell just a little short of its ambitious target to raise an amount equal to 2% of revenue. The company announced: “This is unprecedented in Namibia as well as much of the rest of Africa and it is our most satisfying achievement for 2017.”
Ultimate Safaris joined the CTF last year and only conducted its second Giraffe Conservation-themed safari in partnership with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and a US-based tour operator. In the process N$ 250 000 was raised to the benefit of a program foreseeing the collaring of giraffe in north-western Namibia.
These four partners also organised two similar conservation safaris for the Desert Lion Project, in the process raising a total of N$ 100 000. This funding will contribute materially towards combating the ever increasing human/wildlife conflict in the north-west of Namibia.
With the aid of Ultimate Safaris, the CTF was able to further donate N$ 5 000 worth of materials to the Art & Crafts-projects of the Mamadu centre.
The company believes that successful conservation depends on meaningful partnerships with the communities in and around the wilderness areas, in which Ultimate Safaris operates, in the process sharing benefits with the local people, who open their hearts and heed the tour operator’s guests welcome into some of the world’s most beautiful natural locations.
Frank Steffen
When travelling with Ultimate Safaris, be sure to book a couple of nights at their //Huab mobile camp situated in Damaraland. Apart from its ultimate exclusivity, it offers the unique opportunity to jointly track desert-adapted rhinos with the local rhino rangers.
Ultimate Safaris has from the outset been synonymous with pioneering safaris in Namibia. The company registered a separate non-profit organisation - the Conservation Travel Foundation (CTF) - which ensures that 100% of all purpose-raised funds are directed to worthy projects, as Ultimate Safaris contributed by carrying all costs related to the administration of the foundation.
“In conjunction with our valued partners, we are therefore able to re-invest into the Namibian environment and its people in a transparent and sustainable way, while following ethical business practices,” the company says. The CTF is driven by its goals and since its small beginnings in 2006, it has grown and become one of Namibia’s non-profit organisations, which have a high impact, with their funding derived from Ultimate Safaris’ conservation-oriented travel clientele.
The company records show that Ultimate Safaris raised a staggering N$ 1.36 million for conservation and rural development in Namibia during the previous year. At 1.5% of overall commercial revenue this fell just a little short of its ambitious target to raise an amount equal to 2% of revenue. The company announced: “This is unprecedented in Namibia as well as much of the rest of Africa and it is our most satisfying achievement for 2017.”
Ultimate Safaris joined the CTF last year and only conducted its second Giraffe Conservation-themed safari in partnership with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and a US-based tour operator. In the process N$ 250 000 was raised to the benefit of a program foreseeing the collaring of giraffe in north-western Namibia.
These four partners also organised two similar conservation safaris for the Desert Lion Project, in the process raising a total of N$ 100 000. This funding will contribute materially towards combating the ever increasing human/wildlife conflict in the north-west of Namibia.
With the aid of Ultimate Safaris, the CTF was able to further donate N$ 5 000 worth of materials to the Art & Crafts-projects of the Mamadu centre.
The company believes that successful conservation depends on meaningful partnerships with the communities in and around the wilderness areas, in which Ultimate Safaris operates, in the process sharing benefits with the local people, who open their hearts and heed the tour operator’s guests welcome into some of the world’s most beautiful natural locations.
Frank Steffen
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