PROJECTS
The tourism industry needs collaboration, not competition. We’re as proud of our projects, as of the partnerships with tourism-based social enterprises, businesses and DMOs that enabled them.
Co-authoring a Sustainability Report for a luxury hotel group
Client: Mandarin Oriental
Partner: Bouteco
Location: Global
Boutique consultancy Bouteco engaged Shivya Nath to co-author luxury hotel group Mandarin Oriental’s Sustainability Report 2023. From transparency and imagery to a greener format and greater accessibility (through an audio recording of the highlights), this report tries to challenge impact reporting in luxury hospitality in many ways.
Pioneering community-led storytelling in India, with a focus on climate change
Partners: Digital Empowerment Foundation, Himalayan Ark
Location: India
In collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation and Himalayan Ark, Climate Conscious Travel developed India’s first community storytelling platform - Voices of Rural India. We work with storytellers from tourism-dependent rural communities on the art of digital storytelling, and empower them to share stories of climate change, sustainability, natural heritage and cultural traditions, in their own voices.
Creating self paced courses for purpose-driven travel creators and tourism businesses
Partners: The Shooting Star Academy, Kiwano
Location: Global
In collaboration with The Shooting Star Academy, Climate Conscious Travel developed in-depth courses for aspiring travel storytellers, sharing long term success strategies to get paid to travel - and have a positive impact on the world in the process. For Kiwano, Climate Conscious Travel developed a module a community tourism for travel businesses, including accommodations and tour operators.
Courses:
Offering pay-as-you-like conscious travel writing workshops
Partners: Deer Park Institute
Location: India
As visiting faculty at Deer Park Institute, a Buddhist monastery turned learning centre, Shivya Nath, the founder of Climate Conscious Travel, offers donation-based travel writing and storytelling workshops - accessible to budding travel writers and storytellers from all backgrounds.
Workshops:
The Art of Conscious Travel Writing: Discovering Meaning in Our Outer and Inner Worlds
Making community tourism and climate documentaries that spotlight local voices
Partners: Planeterra, Himalayan Ecotourism, Waste Warriors
Location: Peru and India
Climate Conscious Travel partnered with social enterprises across Peru and India to create a series of travel documentaries based on community tourism, Indigenous-led businesses, women empowerment initiatives and grassroots climate action. These documentaries have been awarded and screened at 18 international film festivals so far, including those in Cambodia, Brazil, Turkey and India. The docufilm on the first women-led trek in the Tirthan Valley became an award-winner at the prestigious Inspire Global Media Awards (London, 2025).
Short documentaries:
First women-led trek in Tirthan Valley
Indigenous-led businesses in Peru’s Sacred Valley
Women waste warriors in Dehradun
Micro films:
Building a platform to inspire sustainable travel in the world’s most exciting cities
Partner: iambassador
Location: Global
Climate Conscious Travel has partnered with boutique digital marketing agency, iambassador, to build Sustainable Cities, a global platform that invites travellers to (re)discover their favorite cities around the world, through a conscious lens. The platform aims to bridge the gap between intention and action, by conscious choices more accessible to travellers. If you’re a DMO interested in joining this project, please contact info@sustainablecities.travel