G Adventures Reprising GX Community Tourism Summit This Year in India

26.03.2024 - 17:49 / travelpulse.com / Laurie Baratti

G Adventures, the world's largest privately owned small-group adventure travel company, has just announced the imminent return of last year’s GX Community Tourism Summit in 2024, to be hosted in conjunction with its non-profit partner, Planeterra, in the vibrant destination of India.

After seeing how incredibly successful its inaugural event was in Cusco, Peru in 2023, G Adventures and Planeterra will once again invite an assortment of agents, suppliers, media members and travelers to assemble in-destination to experience firsthand the profound impact that community tourism can have on local people in a destination, as well as on travelers themselves.   

Scheduled to run from September 24 to 29, 2024, the second GX Summit will also reprise the incorporation of the Change Makers agent event, which brings together “agents of change” from all around the globe. The summit itself will wrap up with full-day World Community Tourism celebration on September 27, 2024, coinciding with World Tourism Day.

The Change Makers campaign signup is already live and submissions will be accepted through May 31, 2024. The initiative incentivizes advisors to work toward altering people’s lives through travel by booking trips with G Adventures. Advisors who succeed in securing a place at the Change Makers conference will witness firsthand how their efforts directly benefit the communities their clients visit during a six-day exploration of India. 

In concert with the non-profit Planeterra, G Adventures selected India as the host country for its 2024 GX Community Tourism Summit because of its colorful culture, wealth of tourism offerings, warm hospitality and the limitless opportunities to launch more community tourism projects intended to spread wealth within the country.

Bruce Poon Tip, founder of both G Adventures and Planeterra, called India an obvious choice of venue for the event, given the type of experience that the GX Summit provides to participants. 

“Last year we hosted our first GX Summit in Peru, and I was mind blown by the feedback we received following the event,” he said. “There was no question we had to repeat this experience. The feedback from attendees was so encouraging, people came back energized about the power of community tourism to make a real difference to people in the places we visit.” 

He continued, “India is an electrifying location, and one that really needs tourism’s support. It’s not fully bounced back since the pandemic, so I’m excited to host our guests and to be able to encourage more people to travel to India the right way at the same time. There’s no better feeling for me than seeing all our communities come together over one shared experience. We learn a lot, but we also have a lot of