Kodama Travel

About us

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Mother of Pearl cloud over Abisko. Nature forever fascinates us.

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 include a wide range of travel experiences, from city breaks and authentic cultural experiences to 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 travellers no longer need to rely on marketplaces 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 using income from responsible travel to support local conservation efforts, providing an incentive to preserve ecosystems rather than destroying them for exploitative economic activities such as ranching, agriculture or development.

In some destinations, reducing the number of tourists and tour operators is essential to protect fragile ecosystems. We’ve been appalled by footage showing enormous groups swarming around a whale shark, cutting off its movements, or cruise ships unloading masses of travellers into delicate environments such as Antarctica. For these reasons, we have excluded certain destinations from our offerings and chosen not to work with cruises.

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Resplendent Quetzal, Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica

Founder Note

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📷 Norwegian fjord

I'm Amy, founder of Kodama Travel. After spending five years in the management consulting world, I moved to work for an animal welfare charity for two years. Discovering that conservation is my passion, I pursued an MSc in Conservation at University College London (UCL), graduating with a Distinction in 2023.

Kodama was born out of my love for all creatures, great and small. As an avid traveller who’s been to 33 countries and counting, I am saddened to see the ongoing exploitation of wildlife in the travel industry, and I'm determined to put an end to this as my life's mission. Kodama is a start-up with an ambitious vision: to end cetacean captivity, animal performance and exploitation, and community displacement caused by tourism. Ultimately, I believe responsible travel should be the norm, not the exception.