About us
ALIORE, Worldwide workshops is an association formed in September 2005 in Montpellier under the 1901 Statute which governs associations. The association aims to develop and promote the practise of traditional activities in the country or region from which they originate. This allows a total cultural immersion, while promoting the transmission of traditional knowledge and local development.
The project was created by three of the association’s founding members
who love travel and meeting people:
Diverres Anne-sophie
Founding member & President of the association
With a degree in Performing Arts and a Master's in Communication and Digital Technology from CELSA Paris Sorbonne, she is our communications asset! She is the creator of our website.
Mc Nish Pauline
Founding member & Secretary of the association
Pauline was born and raised in Scotland; she holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Languages and Institutions and completed the CAPES in English. She has been teaching her native language for over twenty years. As an avid traveller, her various experiences and her translation skills are of great benefit to the association.
CHARTIER Soizick
Founding member & manager of the association
Soizick graduated from the Ecole du LOUVRE, holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Ethnology and Sociology and a Diploma of Specialized Studies (DESS) in Social Methods of Development from Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. She travels for work and also often for fun. She now lives in Montpellier where she is raising her three children and managing the association
Participatory travel
OFFERED BY THE ALIORE ASSOCIATION
WHAT IS PARTICIPATORY TRAVEL?
Participatory travel is a form of responsible and socially conscious travel that contrasts with mass tourism.
Participatory travel, as offered by the Aliore association, involves not just being a passive observer or tourist, but taking part in local activities in the countries and regions visited:
- You can learn local skills through craft, art, or culinary courses, known as workshops.
- Or you can participate in a local project to live alongside communities, which we call participatory stays.
We found that the trip is beneficial to everyone if he engages a real meeting with the populations visited. Beyond the magnificent landscapes and monuments, our strongest memories are often the fortuitous encounters made with local populations.
This is what we wanted to highlight by creating Aliore's programs to make sure you have unique human experiences that will make your vacation real moments of exchange, discoveries, pleasure and personal enrichment.
A FAIR RELATIONSHIP
This cultural immersion is special because it takes place in the context of a truly equitable exchange. Indeed, relations between rich and poor countries are rarely fair. Our workshops try to change this relationship: the local craftspeople are the teachers and you are the students.
In addition to the workshops, we have set up cultural exchange programmes to allow immersion at low cost through volunteering. Our volunteer programmes are available in France, England, Spain or the USA, already favored Western countries, because the idea once again is to offer the fairest possible relationship: it is an exchange of service for accommodation. Everyone is benefiting.
OUR COMMITMENTS
We promote a participatory tourism that focuses on meeting and exchanging with the local population while contributing to the local development of the people involved.
The prices presented on our website are derived from local prices to which we add our membership fee of 50 Euros and the fees for connecting to our partners. The membership fee gives you access to all our workshops for one year.
Your payment contributes to the economic development of the local population, because deduction of the Aliore fee, the money for each workshop goes directly to our local partners. Therefore, the revenue generated by your trip goes directly towards improving the lives of the families involved.
THE TEAM
The association is managed by its founding members and is part of a national and international network started in 2005 and operational in more than 25 countries.
Our network includes schools, family-run companies, associations, craftspeople, and local NGOs.
In most cases our partners are based locally; they organise and carry out each programme.
OUR PARTNERS
The ALIORE association is a member of of UNAT Occitanie, network for Social and Fair Tourism in France and ATD, French Stakeholders for Sustainable Tourism.
We also work with agencies promoting our programmes abroad like GoOverseas, which offers volunteer programmes for responsible travel, GoAbroad important resource for meaningful travel, or in France Voyages pour la Planète, the guide for sustainable tourism.
GET INVOLVED WITH ALIORE
In addition to our local partners, each participant becomes an active member by taking part in a workshop and each one of you is invited to tell us about your experiences.
We also encourage each member to let us know when they find activities during their stay which could become new workshops and offered on our website. Please help us develop the association!
You practice an activity (artistic, cultural or culinary) characteristic of your country (or region) and you would like to join our range of thematic workshops around the world to promote your activity? Do not hesitate to contact us to present us your activity and receive a partnership proposal.
YOUR TRAVEL
You are responsible for all your travel expenses. Aliore will help you make your travel experience unforgettable because our workshops give you the opportunity to develop relationships with local people.
We have chosen to focus on the quality and the uniqueness of the workshops. Participants organise their trip as they wish. We suggest that you compare air fares on the internet or that you contact a Travel Agency to organise your international transport.
INSURANCE
In France, the association ALIORE is insured according to “Public liability “ or third party insurance with the insurance company MAIF, but each participant must be covered by travel insurance (public liability, medical, repatriation, cancellation) during their stay.
