Make us Your Portal to Utopia™ and join us in preserving the environment & your community.
About Us > Company InformationDiscoverTheIslands.com has a radically different business model than other travel websites which spend 50-60% of revenues on advertising, copywriters, other related costs such as operating call centers, and executive compensation. Instead, we rely on word-of-mouth advertising and pay back to non-profit organizations, community groups, and environmental organizations most of our company profits.
DiscoverTheIslands.com provides an objective and extensive portal of travel information that you can consult first for leisure trip ideas anywhere in the world. Use us also for planning business or group travel. Book your travel through our travel partners and help make the world a better place at the same time.
We've joined with key travel and related
firms that have excellent e-commerce infrastructures
including vast selections, superb prices, secure
servers, 24/7 customer support, and a commitment
to corporate responsibility. We hope you'll
book with them and this is how we derive revenues.
All we ask is that you connect to these businesses
in the future through our website otherwise we
don't get credit for your purchases; this means
only one extra click of your mouse. It's easy to
change the world when you make the right clicks.
Bookmark us and watch for the palm tree in your list
of other bookmarks. Try our travel partners, such as Orbitz.com, Kayak.com, and StudentUniverse.com Inc. for more
travel products and better prices presented in an
easy-to-use, interactive display.
So,
we're not a hotel, cruiseline or tour company
but we connect you to the best travel suppliers in
the industry.
Our philosophy
At DiscoverTheIslands.com we see an
island as a metaphor for planet earth. Our concept of
travel and tourism is unique among travel
organizations. It is to enlighten consumers to the
possibilities of a better world - perhaps Utopia,
where society's welfare ranks higher than
corporate profits. We encourage travelers to
discover that islands are gems of the seas™ and so
they should be treated as precious resources. We
seek to make travelers aware of the special
vulnerability of the plants, animals, and indigenous
cultures of islands. Likewise, the social fabric of all
communities operates in a delicate, synergistic way,
similar to that of an island biosystem. Thus, we
support your community service endeavors, and
events and value them in our pluralistic 21st century
society.
DiscoverTheIslands.com
believes (political) consumers can really make a
difference. We've designed our website
around the notion that if we help harness your
consumer 'clicking' power as a traveler,
you can bring about positive change in the world,
creating hope for our environment, & viability
for your valued community service endeavors. See
our Sponsorship page for more on your power to
change the world.
Our Mission Statement
is unequaled among travel websites. Through it
you'll see how we wish to improve your travel
planning experience and protect the fragile planet
we live on.
The end result is a consumer
who is more environmentally and socially aware and
empowered through their travel choices and actions.
Travelers will also delight in their online experience
researching & booking travel via our Portal to
the world, and they'll save time and money
while doing so. Thus, everyone benefits. Join us in
the click to change the world campaign. All this
requires of you is one extra click of your mouse.
The power to make positive changes in the world
literally rests in your hands and the clicks of your
mouse.
Mission to Foster Social
Betterment
- Provide inexpensive,
extensive & innovative travel opportunities to
specialized niches of travelers.
Corporate Objectives
- Allocate
60% of business profits to:
1. Help
preserve the fragile ecosystems of island
destinations -- offsetting the climate footprint of your
travel through us.
2. Support community
service endeavors, festivals, student events,
exhibits, performing arts and other worthy
organizational causes that collaborate with us in
sponsorships.
Vision
Statement - Empower and enable travelers by
showing how it's easy to change the world
when you make the right clicks.
Our
Values - innovation, collaboration, networking
with key stakeholders, giving back to
communities.
Goals -
development of an intelligent travel blog so you
could easily read in one blog what others have
done and experienced while traveling the world.
Join us in the click to change the world
campaign. All this requires of you is one extra click
of your mouse. The power to make positive
changes in the world literally rests in your hands and
the clicks of your mouse.
Book through
us and we'll support your community endeavors through sponsorships. Remember, you need to connect to
our travel partners & affiliates through us if you
desire to help us.