Khiri.com is the best and most innovative travel company for the region!
Title
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Description
Khiri Travel is a pioneering independent travel company with its own regional network. Since 1994 we have been offering innovative and insightful tours throughout Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Our mission is to help tour operators explore the region in a meaningful, rewarding and responsible way.
Today, Khiri Travel is the choice of a rapidly growing number of discerning tour operators in Europe, North America and Asia. These companies have one thing in common: they want the best personal care for their clients.
Khiri Travel has grown by offering unsurpassed service at every budget level. Our three business units, Khiri Gold, Khiri Lotus and Khiri Naga, have been created to cater to the latest travel needs of tour operators.
Khiri Travel travels responsibly. We believe in Community, Conservation, Environment, and Empowerment. Local communities are part of our growth. We support the Luang Prabang orphanage school in Laos and the Apsara Arts Association in Cambodia. We buy coffee and tea from the Royal projects in the hill tribe areas of North Thailand. We are members of Wildlife at Risk. Where we can, we hire the physically challenged.
You’ll find Khiri Travel in Vientiane and Luang Prabang in Laos, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia, Hanoi in Vietnam, and Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand.
To explore Indochina responsibly and in style, put your trust in Khiri Travel.
Our Mission
To be the best, most innovative travel company for the region!
Our Values
- Learn through acquiring and sharing knowledge in the broadest sense
- Accountable and with integrity
- Innovative, self critical and dedicated to self renewal
- Concern for the safety of our clients
- Concern for the well-being for everyone in the company
- Responsible to the environment and to local communities
- Eager to take on big challenges
- We succeed only when we meet and exceed expectations
- Work with a sense of urgency
- Respect for our team, for our suppliers and utmost respect for our clients
- Dedication to teamwork and harmony within the company as a whole
Languages
English
Address
Bangkok Head Office 226/9 Moo 9, Soi Tiwanon 24, Tiwanon Road, Bangkrasor, Muang, Nonthaburi, Greater Bangkok) Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: +66 (0)2 968 6828
Fax: +66 (0)2 968 6829
Email: 
Chiang Mai Office
164/56-57 Chiang Klang Road, T. Chiang Klang,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Tel: +(66) 053 821030-2
Fax: +(66) 053 821033
Email: 
Corporate Social Responsibility
Our region of expertise, Indochina, encompasses some of the world's poorest nations, where the gap between rich and poor is huge and the threat of destruction of natural resources a real concern. The rapid growth of tourism in Southeast Asia has led to rising environmental concerns including habitat degradation, the over-consumption of resources, and pollution.
Tourism also introduces foreign visitors to traditionally sheltered areas which may threaten the ability of indigenous communities to protect their cultural heritage.
However, tourism done responsibly can be a life-enriching experience for both the traveler and the host community. Furthermore, tourism fights poverty and brings hope. Khiri Travel, like many responsible organizations, believes that, with the right choices, tourism can enhance cultural understanding, respect the environment, and bring economic growth. A friendly smile between visitor and host is also priceless.
Community
Across Indochina and Thailand, our contribution starts by supporting community businesses. Wherever possible, Khiri Travel prefers to use local hotels, lodges, restaurants, handicraft outlets, arts and culture centers and guides to best serve our clients. In our offices we use local products where we can. In Thailand, our offices use only coffee and tea from the Royal Projects in the North of Thailand. The proceeds benefit tribal minorities.
We support the Luang Prabang Orphanage School in Northern Laos. At the orphanage, 300 children and over 30 teachers get some relief from the hardship they face on a daily basis.
Conservation The unique culture of local people and the biodiversity of forest and sea are under threat across Southeast Asia (and the world). Conservation of cultural and natural heritage should be a major the pillar s to sustain tourism in our region.
As a responsible operator, Khiri Travel values and respects the unique traditions and customs of indigenous groups. We do our best to help and sustain them. For example, we actively support the Apsara Arts Association in Cambodia. In the program, disadvantaged and orphaned children are taught traditional Khmer music and dance by Apsara teachers, supported, in part, by Khiri Travel.
Khiri Travel is also a member of Wildlife at Risk which aims to protect endangered animals. We encourage tourists to visit the Wildlife at Risk sanctuary near the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam.
Environment Climate change and the threat to the environment is a global challenge. We try to minimize the impact of our tours on the environment. We have very strict rules for our guides and groups, such as a "zero litter" policy.
We encourage our clients to support Climate Care in order to offset greenhouse gases by planting trees and in other ways. Where possible, we use recycled materials and promote electronic communications to reduce paper usage. We limit our printed materials. We encourage our clients to use Khiri.com as their primary source of information about our products and services.
Empowerment Across Indochina, Khiri Travel prefers to use accommodations, restaurants and small businesses that train and employ disadvantaged youngsters.
Women need more empowerment. We hire them when we can. Likewise, Khiri Travel employs the physically challenged. Mrs Nok, our blind telephone operator and receptionist in our head office in Bangkok, is one of our very capable team members. Our operational offices in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are co-owned and managed by locals.
We are currently actively involved in setting up a sustainable tourist project in Sambor Prei Kuk in Cambodia that supports local people and enhances their skills.
Support and input of our clients is of the utmost importance to the overall success of Responsible Travel.
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External Links
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- Khiri Asia
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