Our Regenerative TRAVEL vision
At Get Out Stay Out, we know that true profit comes not just from financial gain, but from building a holistic legacy that benefits everyone involved. A future-fit business is one that values the impact it has on both people and the planet, ensuring that our every endeavor contributes to the well-being of our shared home.
If you have a visionary idea or initiative that could create a regenerative impact on local environments or support communities in need, we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to inspire socially-conscious travelers and make a difference together.
What is regenerative travel? Watch this short film about New Zealand's Tiaki Promise to learn more:
OUR PEOPLE
With a lifetime of adventure in his backpocket, and over ten years experience as a mountain and expedition leader, Peter is your guide to the outdoors. We have decided to focus our offering on the Himalaya and Andalucia – where Peter is well connected and has spent a great deal of time; and Scotland, which is where his adventure story began as a wee bonnie boy.
Peter Vinthagen Simpson – Mountain Leader, Adventurer, Dancer
Our Mission: adventure on nature’s terms
We stand at the precipice. We all know that - ask any natural scientist, read any climate report. What should we do? How can we contribute positively to change? So that we can take a step back from the brink? We can make it our mission to change our personal lifestyles and try to inspire others to do the same. We can read up and debate with colleagues at work, friends at the pub and family at home. We can protest; block bridges, streets and squares. We can do a lot as individuals. We can also try to influence politicians, organizations and companies to change behavior and include environmental thinking in just about everything they (we) do. Carbon dioxide should be as obvious a parameter as price and convenience. We can do a lot collectively. Like pretty much all my guide colleagues, I am an animal lover and nature lover - it kind of goes with the territory. We hike, we camp, we drink water from mountain streams, we strive to leave no trace. And we worry about the environment. At the same time, we work in an industry that makes a living from people traveling, sometimes long distances. Measured in carbon dioxide emissions, there is a marginal difference between an expedition trip to Kilimanjaro where pretty much everything we spend ends up in local pockets and an all-inclusive casual trip to Phuket where the money stays at home and there are no meetings. And it doesn't matter, in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, if I take the train to Laponia if I then meet up with a bunch of guests who took a flight there from Taipei. Therein lies our dilemma. Can travel be sustainable? As an travel experiences company, we are fully convinced that we contribute positively in terms of sustainable economic development at the local level; we are fully convinced that we contribute positively when it comes to challenging prejudices about unfamiliar cultures; and I am utterly convinced that our guests, just like me, become better versions of ourselves, by challenging the body and the mind in the way we do. But is it enough? We stand at the precipice. No, of course not. There are more holes in my arguments than critically endangered animal species. But in short, I am convinced that if you see the world, the animals, the glaciers, the changes, you want to do what you can so that the younger generations of the world have the same opportunities to make their own journeys of discovery at home and in distant lands. Let's start there. Welcome to Get Out Stay Out.