CE Travels - Sustainability

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Select the pdf below with  our sustainable Tourism Policy.

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                  CETravels Sustainable Tourism Policy 2017

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Sustainability:

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As one of the world´s largest industries, tourism has a great responsibility in the goal of implementing sustainable practices on a global scale. Tourism offers on one hand a great opportunity for a direct economic support of the less economically developed countries. On the other hand, tourism bares strong risks of the imposition of Western values and lifestyles on the local structures of receiving countries. In this sense, we recognize the importance of supporting the positive sides global tourism has to offer while minimalizing the negative impacts it might have, following the steps below:

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• Involving local people in our business process and supporting local charity programs on a regular basis

• Working together with eco-tourism-focused businesses and/or companies certified in sustainable tourism

• Making positive contributions to the immediate environment

• Offering more meaningful travel experiences for tourists in terms of getting in touch with the local inhabitants

• Enabling cultural exchanges and hence social exchanges between the tourists and the local community with community-based tourism programs

 

 

3.1 Key Sustainable results

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We have worked intensively on the improvement of our products and services in 2017 and focused on the following initiatives:

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• We are working on the Travelife Certificate for Sustainable Tourism and have changed our office structures, services for travelers and stock of products towards an integral sustainable approach. As part of the certificate we focused amongst other on the following aspects:

• We created contract requirements based on basic sustainable principles for our providers

• We created a sustainable policy which includes aspects such as recycling, energy saving and other structures improving our team and office practices

• We included suggestions for more sustainable behavior for our travelers in their information packages

 

• We supported the public school Escuela Alejandro Alvear on San Cristobal (Galapagos) with donations of sport materials, the maintenance of their sport facilities and in the creation of an outdoor classroom.

• We supported several social projects in Quito with donations, for instance:

• Children’s hospital Baca Ortiz (donations on Children’s Day and Christmas)

• Children’s Daycare project Villa Ticca (economic donations and computers/printers)

• Children’s Daycare project Local Dreamers (Beamer for English classes and economic donations for Christmas)

• We supported the turtle rescue center of the Machalilla National Park in Puerto Lopez with a water tank financed by selling our older office chairs.

• We support the Inti Sisa foundation in Guamote on a monthly basis to pay for school-lunches for children in communities around Guamote

• We supported the soccer club Los Canarios in Puerto Lopez with donations of soccer balls and uniforms for youngsters on the team

• We support various projects in Ecuador with Christmas packages with games and sweets for Children.

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