About us
Outdoor Index is a marketplace specialized in the promotion and sale of adventure excursions and activities in nature in Chile, connecting outdoor enthusiasts with meaningful experiences. We focus on offering local and authentic experiences in remote destinations, facilitating the search, information, and booking of activities through a modern and quality platform that guarantees safety and ease of use.
1. Diversify to protect.
Our wide range of outdoor excursions has always set us apart, fully covering the places where we operate. We promote lesser-known places to decongest the already well-known ones and thus protect attractions that have been affected, eroded by their over-demand. It is an indirect but very important way of conservation, especially crucial in the experience of a different trip.
Do you help conserve with a different trip? The number of corners to contemplate in Patagonia is infinite, the opportunities to find that WOW moment are around every corner, behind every tree. Your decisions and the places you visit or choose not to visit are an important way of conservation, which is why we will always promote new destinations, new routes, new providers, new places.
2. Being agents of change for conscious tourism.
Tourism has environmental, sociocultural, and economic effects. It moves and interacts within these three factors actively. Our purpose is to be agents of change and educate towards responsible practices on these issues.
An agent of change is an active, persistent, and focused role. The change towards conscious tourism is a change towards responsible decisions, both for tourists and operators. A conscious approach allows you to value a trip through storytelling, increases your capacity for amazement, allows your trip to transcend by giving it a purpose and teaching, and that stays with you much longer than the trip itself.
3. Promoting adventure as a personal change experience.
Active interaction with nature is a tremendous resource for challenges, and it is the challenges that push us to go further, to leave our comfort zone and test our abilities, decisions, our head, and our mind, to visualize and perhaps integrate a better version of ourselves.
An adventure can be a transcendent personal change experience. The best lessons come from a crisis. For some, that crisis or challenge may be a half-day hike, and for others, ice climbing. For some, a kayak river descent, for others, an 8-day trekking expedition. Helping you transform your trip into a personal growth experience is a priority.
4. Activation of tourist ecosystems.
When visiting a place as a tourist, it is important to consider that your visit not only represents an entry of money for the guide with whom you will take a tour. It is very important to also consider that you will contribute, for example, by buying at the local grocery store, or perhaps refueling. You will visit a local products and souvenirs store, and thus your visit becomes a complete activation of the entire tourist ecosystem.
We constantly want to be activators of these ecosystems, generating movement in the entire environment and tourist chain of each locality, promoting local consumption and small businesses, generating exposure, and also promoting through collaboration. In this way, promoting local culture from local development for endogenous social conservation, from the inside out.
Outdoor Index/ Puerto Natales, Patagonia. Chile.