Kodama

About us

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Mother of Pearl cloud over Abisko.

Kodama Travel is an online travel marketplace that prioritises wildlife welfare. We work exclusively with high-quality suppliers committed to responsible travel. However, we are not a wildlife-only marketplace. Our offerings encompass a diverse range of travel experiences, including city breaks, authentic cultural experiences, outdoor adventures, and wildlife encounters. We can also help you design tailor-made tours to selected destinations.

Our mission is to make booking responsible travel experiences easy, ensuring that travellers no longer need to rely on marketplaces that are complicit in animal and community exploitation for their travel needs.

Our conservation mission

We are founded by conservationists. We believe true luxury in travel lies in connecting deeply with a place and its people, appreciating and protecting its ecosystem and biodiversity, and returning home with a renewed appreciation of the world. We hope you will enjoy the experiences we lovingly curated.

We advocate for using income from responsible travel to support local conservation efforts, providing an incentive to preserve ecosystems rather than exploit them for unsustainable economic activities.

In some destinations, reducing the number of tourists is essential to protect fragile ecosystems. Therefore, we have excluded certain destinations from our offerings and decided not to work with cruise lines.

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Snow leopard, Qinghai, China

Founder Note

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I'm Amy, founder of Kodama Travel. I'm a former consultant turned conservationist. I hold a BA in Geography and an MSc in Conservation from University College London (UCL).

Kodama was born from my love of nature and wildlife. As an avid traveller, I've explored 34 countries so far, and I'm constantly in awe of our planet’s beauty. At the same time, I’ve seen firsthand the exploitation of wildlife and local communities in the travel industry. Kodama is my way of creating change — a start-up with a big vision: to make travel a force for good and to put an end to animal exploitation. I believe responsible travel should be the norm, not the exception.