About Us

Manifesto

GoHabitat isn’t just another booking platform. We deploy tourism as a direct funding stream for the regenerative development of local ecosystems and the people caring for them. It’s designed to reduce the sector’s overdependence on subsidies, grants, and private investments, which are especially burdensome for small-scale, transitioning, or early-stage initiatives.

Our wide array of hosts are tending food forests, regenerative farms, permaculture and syntropic systems, agroforestry, reforestation sites, and all related forms of landscape restoration. The ways to visit are just as diverse as their landscapes, with anything from basic tent pitches to luxury accommodations and activities such as farm-to-table dinners and foraging workshops.

We asked ourselves this:
Which nature lover wouldn’t feel better knowing their visits directly support nature restoration?

And firmly believe in a radical impact travel brand associated with nature recreation, unique destinations and environmental action to be a part of the answer.

GoHabitat is systemically rooted in four core interactions:

1. Rural and smallholder inclusion
A concentrated and value-based marketplace enables low-barrier access for these restoration sites to meet a niche demand, creating opportunities they wouldn’t have elsewhere.

2. Introducing a broad audience to regeneration
Through accessible, sensory-rich activities like farm-to-table dinners, foraging walks, and self-harvesting, guests experience the deep interconnection between soil, water, biodiversity, and our food system. Promoting environmental awareness and nudging behavioural shifts, lasting long after return.

3. The intersection of recreation and restoration
As consequence of a reinforcing supply-and-demand loop, we enable experimentation at the crossroads of recreation, environmental action, social connection, participation, pleasure and meaning. Combined with local, bioregional, and international collaboration, this poses fertile grounds for developing many new products and services in the impact travel domain.

4. A low-risk stream for regenerative finance
For aligned investors, backing this infrastructure enables a vehicle to direct capital into one of the most underfunded yet most intrinsically sound domains of landscape restoration. While offering returns through transparent platform commissions, this structure bypasses many conventional risks regarding regeneration (e.g. long lead times, small ticket sizes, low efficiencies, uncertain outputs and unmeasurable outcomes).

Steward-owned foundational governance

Inspired by models like Patagonia, GoHabitat is structured as a steward-owned enterprise. This means 100% of profits will be redistributed and overseen by a separate foundation, with no shareholders able to extract value.

The core purpose of the foundation will be to accelerate what is known as “bioregional development”. This may include helping individual sites become a lighthouse destination for local resilience, or connecting networks of initiatives to create regional blueprints for regenerative economies.