Community support
Tourism that supports local communities
Visit Karatu connects travel with local opportunity. Discover community projects, support local businesses and explore responsible ways to make your visit meaningful.
Travel with impact
Your journey can support the places and people you visit
Visit Karatu encourages responsible tourism: stay with local businesses, use local operators and guides, eat at local restaurants, buy locally made products and support verified community initiatives.
Stay Local
Choose locally operated accommodations.
Explore Local
Book authentic community experiences and local guides.
Shop Local
Discover artisans, markets and locally owned businesses.
Travel Responsibly
Respect local culture, wildlife and the environment.
Support a Project
Discover verified community initiatives that need support.
Community projects
Verified initiatives you can support
Every project is reviewed by Visit Karatu before it is published. We clearly show who organizes each initiative.
Our community partners
Organizations and community groups Visit Karatu genuinely works with.
Meet our partnersRun a community initiative?
Submit your project for review. Nothing is published before our team verifies it.
Submit a Community Project