Twelve Senses Retreat X Kind Traveler
Twelve Senses Retreat & Kind Traveler Empower Travelers empower travelers to protect the planet while balancing the mind, body, and soul.
Encinitas, California - Twelve Senses Retreat joins Kind Traveler, the first socially conscious Give + Get hotel booking & education platform that empowers travelers to positively impact the communities they visit. When you stay at Twelve Senses Retreat, a nominal nightly community impact fee of $1 will go to Changing Tides Foundation through Kind Traveler’s Every Stay Give Back program. Twelve Senses Retreat will match donations for every $1 donated and 100% of donations go to the charity. Travelers can also unlock special offers from curated Kind Hotels upon a $10 or more donation to a local charity that positively impacts the community visited, or to the charity of choice on Kind Traveler. 100 percent of the donation is given to charity creating a triple win amongst the traveler, charity, and hotel.
Whatever it is, the way Twelve Senses Retreat is collaborating with Changing Tides Foundation to facilitate a positive impact in its local community. Changing Tides Foundation, born from a desire to create a community of people of all genders, shapes, colors, and sizes who feel connected to the sea, is a growing community of individuals who engage us to use our voices to advocate for the planet and all of its inhabitants.you tell your story online can make all the difference.
By sharing an exclusive offer as a reward for donations, guests make a conscientious decision to stay at Twelve Senses Retreat and support a great cause that positively impacts the community visited. A $10 donation to Changing Tides Foundation will help to protect the ocean with sustainable initiatives and encourage individual action so that together we can create collective change for equity, justice, and a healthier future. Nearly 97% of travelers polled in Kind Traveler’s 2022 Impact Tourism Report want their travel dollars to positively impact the communities they visit. The partnership between Twelve Senses Retreat, Changing Tides Foundation, and Kind Traveler facilitates an easy pathway for travelers to make conscientious, responsible, sustainable, and regenerative travel decisions that support the local community. In terms of the hotel profile, Kind Traveler highlights each property in a meaningful way by connecting the traveler with a local community impact opportunity and an opportunity to learn more about how the hotel is advancing individual wellness, sustainability, and community impact. This unique way of telling the hotel’s story reinforces a commitment to social responsibility, at a time when transparency is expected from today’s travelers and consumers. Some of Twelve Senses Retreat’s notable sustainability efforts include reducing single-use plastic, using eco-friendly bedding in rooms, and designing the foundation of the hotel with repurposed materials including recycled leather, bamboo, zero VOC paints, seagrass, and other sustainable materials.
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“I am super excited and so grateful for this new partnership between Kind Traveler and Changing Tides Foundation. Both are so beautifully aligned with our core values and mission to inspire being kind to Mother Earth, each other and ourselves.” Anke Bodack, Owner, Twelve Senses Retreat
“Our win-win platform offers opportunities for meaningful community impact for everyone involved,” said CEO & Co Founder Jessica Blotter. “For travelers, they fulfill a desire to give back and create a more purpose-driven travel experience–while supporting hotels and charities that are making a positive impact in the world. For hotels, they cultivate new relationships with conscious, responsible travelers and take another step towards creating amore sustainable and regenerative travel experience. Charities receive 100% of donations and a new, sustainable channel for fundraising.”
For more information on how Twelve Senses Retreat has partnered with Kind Traveler to empower community impact, visit www.twelvesensesretreat.com.
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Anke Bodack
About Twelve Senses Retreat
Whatever it is, the way Developing the Twelve Senses Retreat has been a dream of mine for over a decade, and I’m so grateful to finally be able to welcome you here. A friend recently told me that they thought that everything in my life has been the perfect catalyst for building this wonderful space…which I instantly felt was true.
As a child, my Dad traveled frequently and was always coming home with tales of inspiring adventures and encounters. To this day, he still inspires me with his non-conformist spirit, his never-ending passion and his holistic approach to living. My mother has always been the relentlessly creative and caring force at home, where there was barely a day without wonderful feasts for last-minute guests, who many times would spend the night.
It’s no wonder that, with such parents, one of my biggest passions has always been hosting. Having friends in my space, cooking together, indulging in great food and lively, meaningful conversations - this is an activity that fulfills my soul. A Color & Material Designer by profession, the other great passion of my life is bringing environments to life with great products, careful attention to detail, and thoughtful consideration to the planet.
The first seed to open my own B&B was planted when I traveled to the Valle De Guadalupe with some dear friends. We visited La Villa De La Valle, and I was deeply touched how co-owners Phil and Eileen had left their careers in Los Angeles, moved across the border, and built a new life. Their incredible passion for high quality, artisanship and sustainability left a long lasting impression in my mind.ou tell your story online can make all the difference.
Ten years later, I am immensely thankful to have completed Twelve Senses Retreat, with incredible support from friends, family, our architects and building team.
I am also proud and equally humbled that we are a new member of the Designhotels group - which has long been my to go-to inspiration for travel and hosting.
Come join myself and our small team here - to relax, disconnect from the world, and reconnect with nature.
About Kind Traveler
Kind Traveler, a veteran-and-woman-owned public benefit corporation (PBC), is the world’s first socially conscious Give + Get hotel booking & education platform that empowers travelers to positively impact the communities they visit. The way it works is simple: Travelers unlock exclusive offers from curated Kind Hotels when they give a$10 or more donation to a vetted charity that positively impacts the community they are visiting, or to a charity of choice. 100% of donations go to charity. Kind Traveler represents Kind Hotels and tourism boards in 22 countries and 150+charities globally. Kind Traveler has been globally recognized with awards from Newsweek, Fast Company, Travel + Leisure, UNWTO, Luftahansa Innovation Hub (Germany) and World Tourism Forum Lucerne (Switzerland). Kind Traveler is a Blue Startups portfolio company, a signatory of the Future of Tourism Coalition (FOTC), and a member of the Female Founder Collective, 1% for the Planet, The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), and Wellness Tourism Association. Learn more at www.KindTraveler.com.