This piece from TTG Media, a travel publication, explains why visiting orphanages in detrimental to children, families, and communities and how travel agencies can help end orphanage voluntourism. The article highlights Intrepid Travel's decision to remove orphanage tours from their offerings in May 2016 and their collaborative efforts with advocacy groups like ReThink Orphanages and others to "lobby the Australian government and make it the first country in the world to declare visits to overseas orphanages illegal," in the hopes that the UK and other nations will follow. The article suggests that travel agencies can alert their clients to the impacts of orphanage volunteering and provide alternative offerings in its place.
