DEFINITION AND PEDAGOGY OF FUNDAMENTAL TRAVEL

Tourism is without any doubt the activity that stimulates the attention and analysis of the largest multitude of specialists, as economists, ecologists, ethnologists, psychologists, sociologists, politicians and many others. It is correct then to ascertain that Tourism is an important encounter crossroad for all of these sciences.
We can classify three different sectors where Tourism exercises its influence: Economic, Geographic and Human.

After a commercial-oriented tourism with its solely economic goals, the latest decades witnessed the birth and constant growth of a different perception about travelling: new concepts like Environment Preservation, Cultural Integrities, and Social Consciousness had been the answer to the planetary awakening towards the process of creating Sustainable Development in Social, Environmental and Economic issues.
New forms and definitions of tourism were born: Responsible Travel, Ecotourism, Eco-Volunteering, Community-Based Travel, Voluntourism, and Ethno-Travel.

All of these concepts follow the main ethics of Sustainable Tourism: low impact on the environment, respect towards local population and their traditions, helping local economy, employing strictly local workforces, as well as to promote the conservation of the ecosystems and cultural identities.

Fundamental Tourism is meant to take a step even further, placing the Human Factor in the core of the concept.

Man’s quest to nourish his evolution and acknowledgment is definitely his deepest ambition while living in modern civilization communities: socially conscious individuals constantly seek answers and idea to keep these aspirations alive. Spare time emerges then as Quality time and travelling becomes one of the greatest opportunities to self development, personal growth and soul awareness.

Back to the origin, emphasizing the essential, Fundamental Tourism is constantly oriented towards environmental respect, cultural integrity, and economic equity in all of its activities.

The main aspect of its feasibility will be the incorporation of a specific and personal Action/Development Project to the ethical concepts above-cited. These Aid and Assistance individual achievements will be undertaken by travellers to help a person or a community in the lands they are visiting and exploring.
Conceived, prepared and developed by qualified professionals, the Fundamental Tourism programs aim to optimize the cultural exchanges, provide an authentic and enlightening discovery travel, within profound integration conditions.

All of these details certify the Fundamental Tourism as a concept capable to offer all the necessary conditions to a fair equilibrium among the three different aspects, Environmental, Economical and Social, primal necessities for a real understanding of the needs of sustainability.