Best Tour Operator for Cultural Engagement, 2009
Responsible Tourism Awards Winner, World Travel Market, November 2009
What the judges said
"These community-owned and managed projects in the Indian Himalaya offer unique and authentic cultural experiences by facilitating mutual cultural engagement at every level. This has brought previously vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals from the Dalit community into focus as porters and committee members, while enabling tourists to experience rural landscapes in non-intrusive and rewarding ways and make a significant contribution to local economic development in the villages they walk through."
The Times Green Spaces Award, 2008 - Winner - Best Place to Stay Worldwide
The Times newspaper and Times Online ran a competition based on Green Tourism, with candidates nominated by Times readers. Village Ways was put forward by one of our guests who visited in March 2008.
We were selected as one of six finalists in the category 'Green Spaces, Best Place to Stay, Worldwide'. The editor of Times Online visited Village Ways in October to judge our credentials.
On December 2nd, we were awarded 1st Prize in that category, giving Village Ways the accolade of being the Times' Green Spaces 'Best Place to Stay, Worldwide, 2008'.
'This is a genuine way to see inside rural life in India, all of its smiles, smells and joy at a very cheap price and in stunning surroundings. And it is a very worthy winner of an award.'
Steve Keenan, The Times, editor timesonline travel
We were selected as one of six finalists in the category 'Green Spaces, Best Place to Stay, Worldwide'. The editor of Times Online visited Village Ways in October to judge our credentials.
On December 2nd, we were awarded 1st Prize in that category, giving Village Ways the accolade of being the Times' Green Spaces 'Best Place to Stay, Worldwide, 2008'.
'This is a genuine way to see inside rural life in India, all of its smiles, smells and joy at a very cheap price and in stunning surroundings. And it is a very worthy winner of an award.'
Steve Keenan, The Times, editor timesonline travel
The British Guild of Travel Writers, 2007 - Winner, Best Overseas Tourism Project
In November 2007 Village Ways won The British Guild of Travel Writers' 'Best Overseas Tourism Project'.
Guardian Travel Awards, 2007 - Second Place, Ethical Travel category
At the 2007 Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited Travel Awards ceremony in Seville, Spain, Village Ways was awarded 2nd prize in the Category 'Ethical Travel' (November 4th 2007)
