I’m committed to travel with purpose.
I believe travel can be a force for good: for the people who call a place home, for its wildlife and for the environment. And the places that look after all three tend to look after you best too. So often, the moments my clients remember most are the ones where they got involved: an evening round the fire with rangers, a morning at a community project, snorkelling a coral nursery with the marine biologist who tends it, a meal in someone’s home.
So when I plan your trip, I’m thinking about more than where you’ll stay. Who’ll be looking after you, and how they’re looked after. Whether your money reaches the communities that make the place special. What’s on your plate and where it came from. How the wildlife you’ve come to see is treated. And how much care the place takes of its environment.
You won’t need to think about any of it. You’ll feel it, though: in the welcome, the food, the surroundings. That’s what turns a good holiday into an extraordinary one. And if you’re curious, I’ll happily tell you the good your trip did along the way.
TTG Sustainable Travel Hero 2026Recognised for work in responsible travelThe people I work with are stewards of their corner of the world. These are some of their stories.
Greater Kruger, South AfricaA night at their headquarters: a walk with the rangers to find and destroy snares, dinner by lantern light, and their stories round the campfire.
The world’s first all-female anti-poaching unit, set up by Transfrontier Africa in 2013. The rangers patrol unarmed, and through their Bush Babies programme they teach conservation to children from the same villages as the poachers.
Yala, Sri LankaNights in a small, family-run tented camp right on the edge of Yala National Park, with wildlife in and around camp and no long drive to the park gate.
Around Yala, leopards sometimes take livestock at night, and farmers can respond with traps or guns. My partners in Sri Lanka, working with a local safari camp, have funded a secure enclosure for a farmer’s cattle, so the herd is safe after dark and the leopards are left alone. Enclosures like this have been cutting cattle losses in villages around Yala for years, and this is where theirs begins.
Jaipur, IndiaThe old walled city from the seat of a pink electric rickshaw, driven by a woman who knows every lane and is proud to show you her Jaipur.
The company belongs to the women who drive for it. It was set up by ACCESS Development Services, a not-for-profit, to give women from low-income households in Jaipur a new kind of work. The drivers are trained, then become shareholders who own and run the business themselves.
Miranda Seymour, founder of Seymour Escapes, was named a TTG Sustainable Travel Hero in 2026, recognised for her work in responsible travel. She runs her business as part of Travel Counsellors, which holds Travelife Partner status for its commitment to sustainable travel, and she has been featured in Forbes and The Independent.
St Kitts and Nevis have quietly reinvented themselves, says this Travel CounsellorFeatured · June 2026
Madagascar is back on the radarQuoted · May 2026
Nine expert tips for sustainable travel and eco-friendly holidaysQuoted · March 2026For partners and the tradeIf you’re doing interesting work, I’d love to hear about it. miranda.seymour@mytc.com
Stories from the places and people doing things well.
No. I plan all kinds of trips, from family villas to safari to a week of doing very little by a pool. Responsible travel shapes how I choose places, not what you’re allowed to want.
Not in the way people often expect. At the luxury end, the places doing things well are often smaller and owner-run, and they’re priced like any other hotel of their standard. Where there is a premium, it tends to buy things you’d want anyway, like fewer guests, better guides and more privacy.
I ask direct questions about staff, community, sourcing and wildlife, and I look behind any certification rather than taking it at face value. If the answers don’t stand up, the hotel doesn’t make my list.
It’s an annual recognition from TTG, the UK travel trade publication, of travel advisors for their work in responsible travel. Miranda Seymour of Seymour Escapes was named one in 2026.
Carefully. I’m wary of anything involving direct contact, and I look for independent partnerships and credentials rather than taking words like “sanctuary” or “rescue” at face value.
Tell me what you’re after. A few lines is plenty to start.
Let’s Start Planning