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It gives us much pride and fulfilment to delve deeper into the achievements of our sustainability journey for 2025. Wrapping up the year with the Title of Best Tour Operator 2025, following the recently held inaugural Tourism Excellence Awards hosted by the Tourism Regulatory Authority (TRA), is an honor. This prestigious achievement pronounces our broader commitment to transform Kenya’s tourism industry by offering exceptional safari experiences and promoting responsible tourism practices.
It’s a pleasure to engage with you, our audience, in the deep realization that there exists an intentional commitment between dreaming of and doing what truly matters. This has remained consistent and evident in the partnership between Sunworld Safaris and all our business partners and clients. Over the years, we have remained deeply rooted in our commitment to uphold consistency in the integration of sustainability principles and practices in our daily operations.
Beyond the commendable certified level recognition for excellence in sustainability achieved early this year from Travelife for Tour Operators, Sunworld Safaris endeavors to protect and conserve Kenya’s sensitive ecosystems, including the wildlife sustained in them. We are committed to supporting the well-being and empowerment of the host communities in the tourism destinations in which we operate.
From the ever-inspiring Keep On Creating Hope (KOCH) that endeavors to create hope, provide safe pathways, and nurture young people into leaders who uplift their families and their community.
Wildlife & Education Visits: The activities of this year consisted of the facilitation of incredible visits to animal conservation areas to help nurture a passion for conservation in young children from a very tender age. For Sunworld Safaris and KOCH, these complimentary trips offered to children with promising futures yet limited by disadvantages of any kind on their backgrounds, are not just a “busy-day-out”. They are a fire lit up in the inmost being of a determined child. The trips are indeed a push into the desire to pursue dreams deemed unreachable. They are dared to dream and mentored with a cause.
These visits give us a Milestone Worth Sharing – The Success story of Sylvia: A beneficiary of Sunworld Safari’s Community Wildlife Fund scholarship awarded through Keep On Creating Hope (KOCH), who recently graduated with a Diploma in Tourism Management from NIBS College. From consistent engagements with her mentor and Founder of KOCH, Florence Kangethe, Sylvia was encouraged to pursue her passion. Today, Sylvia is an intern at Sunworld Safaris, stepping confidently into the tourism field. As a way to give back into the program that shaped her, she volunteers as a mentor at KOCH, guiding younger learners just as she was once guided. Silvia among many other beneficiaries are a result of Sunworld Safaris education scholarship and sponsorship support.
Sunworld Safaris has continued its strategic partnership with Health Touch Foundation in the quest to empower families with children who have various physical disabilities. The partnership seeks to affirm that children remain a blessing regardless of their disabilities. Continuously, Sunworld Safaris offers the program efficient transport support to enable the team of medical practitioners led by Elizabeth Nyokabi to access remote communities in Kenya’s Magadi area by raising awareness, offering knowledge, and providing healthcare services and support.
In addition to enhancing vegetation cover, tree planting exercises are a symbol of collective responsibility for the planet. It is a demonstration of commitment to promote environmental sustainability and care for our natural environment, some of which are forest resources. The type of species planted are powerful silent whispers to the earth and promises made to affirm the well-being of our host communities. While indigenous tree species make a promise of hope to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems and promote their balance, the intricate affair of planting fruit trees promises sweetness while echoing a strand into healthy food streams with nutritious yield that can be subsistent or for sale. It was quite a fulfilling engagement to plant seedlings of fruit trees and flowers at St. John’s School in Korogocho on 23rd November 2025. Participation in the 10th Edition of the Annual Forest Challenge at Kereita Forest, organized by the East Africa Wildlife Society (EAWLS), was another worthwhile involvement conducted in collaboration with like-minded industry stakeholders committed to
conservation of Kenya’s water catchment ecosystems.
What an Honor to Be Gifted with Nature’s Own Beauty! In August this year, Mark Jones, one of our long-standing supporters and client, honored Gabriele Nowak, our Director at Sunworld Safaris, with the privilege to join the foster family having been gifted to adopt Kipekee – a female orphaned elephant, rescued by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.
What’s even more insipiring is that, adoption gifts like this one support the trust’s orphans’ project, enabling orphaned animals like Kipekee to access the much needed specialist care, love and support to heal and grow, while securing a protected home for them to roam and thrive.
Mark Jones’ personal message to Gabriele demonstrated admiration for the amazing work that Sunworld Safaris does for the community in general and the support the company gives him and the children of Korogocho in organising the wildlife trips to Sheldrick.
Our very own Ann Tumpesia I Wildgirl kenya achieved the Olosho Award for Most Outstanding Female Tour Guide of The Year. As Sunworld Safaris’ first female guide, Ann continues to prove the possibility of women’s equal and active participation in the guiding career which until very recently has been largely male dominated. She is among the few women who are making commendable strides in the nature guiding space. Her journey embodies courage, dedication, and the true spirit of adventure, paving the way for more women to lead in the professional engagments within tourism and conservation.
As the tourism and hospitality industry navigates its toughest sustainability challenges, it takes proactive and intentional entreprises to device practical interventions required for change. This is only achievable through a shared commitment to measurable impact. Sharing our story of resilience and commitment to causing industry transfromation at the Purple Elephant Ventures’ Impact Space was an honor. The engagement tackled a wide range of industry issues from unravelling the energy puzzle, to establishing green value chains and adopting consistent valuable systemic changes for sustainable tourism practices.
Among the impactful responsibilities of having been nominated as members in the Kenya Plastics Pact steering committee in July this year, Sunworld Safaris alongside Ecotourism Kenya and Tierranjani Africa led the industry’s focus on “No Plastics in the MICE, Hospitality & Tourism Industry.” This was during the afternoon breakout session at the Kenya Plastics Pact Summit (Day 2 of the Annual Circular Economy Conference on 20th November 2025). This highly interactive session was aimed at exploring how MICE, Hospitality, or Tourism industry can eliminate single-use plastics while showcasing real-life examples from eco-camps & lodges while discussing practical ways to refuse, reduce, replace, reuse, and refill
These are not just words to us; they are an identity we carry as a responsible tour company whose operations are aimed at causing positive impact on the people, the environment and the overall tourism business chain. We are glad to continue in the path of transformation as pioneering champions of the Safari Etiquette. Our team of professional KPSGA safari guides are the primary channel of realizing this effort.
Training is a key point of our growth curve. Access to material that build, sustain and progressively refine the professionalism and expertise of our is among the elements that define our true north. This year alone, we have managed to conduct a wide range of internal and external training engagements ranging from topics on ergonomics and workplace wellness, to guiding-specific focus areas, as well as hosting the yearly guides’ training for Sunworld Safaris Guiding team in collaboration to our Soroi Collection’s stationed guides.