On Saturday, September 27, 2025, World Tourism Day, the Journey Journey Conservation Fund Public sale returns following final yr’s excellent success elevating $114,000 for essential conservation efforts globally.
Yearly, the nonprofit Journey Journey Conservation Fund (ATCF) gathers outstanding journeys together with prime quality gear, all donated by sustainably minded members of the worldwide journey journey trade. It has develop into the world’s largest and most revered journey journey and equipment public sale benefiting conservation.
Final yr, enthusiastic journey vacationers bid on-line for a number of the world’s most revered and unique journey experiences, elevating important funds for world conservation initiatives. This yr, bidders have one other probability to safe their dream journeys, understanding their investments proceed to make an actual impression on conservation efforts worldwide.
Vacationers can get a preview of the objects that shall be up for bidding from September 27 to October 22 by going to the Journey Conservation Public sale web page. Greatest practices advocate maintaining a tally of a favourite merchandise to be able to not be “scooped” on the final minute. And as each greenback goes to the conservation work of the ATCF, persons are reminded to bid early, bid typically, and bid excessive.
The ATCF’s mission is to harness the worldwide journey neighborhood’s dedication to defending the setting and cultural heritage. In a time when general investments in conservation have declined, grassroots initiatives in biodiverse locations face better challenges than ever. The ATCF helps conservation teams, Indigenous communities, and different organizations—each nonprofit and for-profit—whose work advances our three central pillars: Biodiversity Safety, Local weather Resilience, and Group Resilience. As conventional funding sources have diminished, proceeds from the public sale have develop into much more vital to sustaining these packages. Alongside non-public donations and membership charges, public sale assist now performs an important position in persevering with this important work.
“In simply over seven years, we’re proud to have awarded over $800,000 USD of assist to 53 conservation initiatives in 29 international locations,” says ATCF chair and founding father of Eagle Creek, Steve Barker. “For this yr’s fundraising public sale, the standard of journeys and equipment which were donated is unprecedented and speaks to the dedication the journey journey trade has for the work that we do to guard our wild and pure locations world wide.”
In all, some 75 journey journeys, lodging, and equipment are being auctioned. Donors embody such revered journey corporations as World Expeditions, Hurtigruten, VBT Bicycling Holidays, Wilderness Safaris, Mountain Lodges of Peru, Angama, OARS, Volcanoes Safaris, Polar Latitudes, Quasar, and Enchanted Expeditions. Gadgets for bid this yr embody:
- a once-in-a-lifetime journey cruise to Antarctica
- a 10-day hike in France, Switzerland, and Italy
- a 7-day trek in Peru
- a 3-day hike in Greenland
- a 6-day bike tour of Maryland’s Japanese Shore
- a 4-day eco camp in Chile’s Patagonia
- an 8-day Galapagos cruise
- a 6-day kayaking and whale watching journey in Baja, Mexico
- a 7-day expedition cruise alongside Norway’s coast
- a 12-day biking tour throughout Italy
- a 6-day rafting journey on the Colorado River in Utah
- a 12-day journey in Borneo, Malaysia
- a 16-day trek in Nepal’s iconic Annapurna area
- a 4-day lodge-based gorilla viewing expertise in Uganda
- Flight vouchers on Icelandair
- Gear from manufacturers equivalent to Eagle Creek, Patagonia, Peak Design, Toad&Co, Miir, Unbound Merino, and many others.
- And far, rather more
“The great thing about the ATCF public sale is that you may get hold of an unbelievable journey supplied by a number of the world’s most accountable and trusted operators and on the identical time contribute to the conservation of the locations we love” says Barker. “Due to the generosity of our donors, your journey {dollars} instantly fund the work of the nonprofit ATCF. Our donors inform us that the relationships they construct with public sale company reside on, long gone the journey.”
Thanks to our sponsors Flickr, the world’s most vibrant images neighborhood, and AFAR, the award-winning journey media model, for sponsoring this yr’s Journey Conservation Public sale and serving to us attain extra vacationers who care about defending the wild locations we love.
And because of publicity to the 57,000 subscribers of Journey.Journey, and an e-mail and social media marketing campaign unfold all through the greater than 1,200 members of the Journey Journey Commerce Affiliation, with a request to share with their very own communities, the ATCF has set an formidable $150,000 aim for this yr. The addition of AFAR and Flickr’s involvement strengthens ATCF’s fundraising efforts and can assist construct lasting connections between vacationers, donors and conservation initiatives.
The public sale closes on October 22.
Concerning the ATCF
The nonprofit Journey Journey Conservation Fund (ATCF) believes within the energy of journey to guard and preserve and that the worldwide journey neighborhood can develop into stewards for the planet. Based by companies within the journey journey and out of doors industries, the ATCF membership is devoted to defending threatened communities, cultures, and wild locations to protect their cultural and leisure integrity. ATCF members are additionally members of the Journey Journey Commerce Affiliation and trade leaders who’ve come collectively to advocate and assist initiatives that enable sustainable journey tourism to develop into the longer term.