Responsible Tourism
We are committed to our Responsible Tourism Policy on all of our
charity challenge events. Tourists will always want to visit the places where we
take charity groups and we want to preserve them for future generations.
- Where possible we use locally owned and run accommodation.
- We use local equipment and vehicles when we can and hire them from local
qualified agencies.
- In most destinations we aim to purchase our food from locally produced
sources.
- We employ local guides and whenever possible arrange for them to give
cultural talks about the area to promote inter-cultural understanding and
encourage people to respect the society they are visiting.
- We encourage participants through our Tour Managers,
pre-event literature and daily briefings to act in a responsible way and respect
the local customs e.g. appropriate dress code, use water sparingly, ask
permission to take photographs etc.
- We are in the process of finalising a Code of Conduct for participants.
- We always bear in mind environmental and cultural issues when looking at the
charity challenges we develop.
- We ensure that our events are appropriate to local conditions and operate
within the limits set by local infrastructure.
- We regularly review our suggested packing lists to make sure they contain
equipment which help prevent potential damage to the local environment.
- We take responsibility for maintaining the environment and not leaving
litter behind. We take our own bin bags to destinations where they are difficult
to procure.
- We take note of any changes to the local environment through our Tour
Manager event reports and act accordingly.
- In the office we take inspiration from the book “Change the World 9 to 5”.
We recycle our printer cartridges, paper is always reused where possible before
recycling and we have started to use recycled paper for our mailings, brochures
and registration packs. We provide fair trade tea and coffee for staff and
visitors.
Classic Tours are proud to operate charity challenge events where no flights
are involved to keep the carbon footprint for individuals as low as possible.
Examples of some of our 2008 low carbon events are:
2-5 May London to Amsterdam Bike
Ride NAS
10-17 May Malin to Mizen
Bike
Ride Marie
Curie Cancer Care
6-9 June London to Reims Bike
Ride
NAS
6-10 June London to Reims Bike
Ride
BHF
27-30 June London to Paris Bike
Ride
Open Challenge
12-17 July London to Paris Bike
Ride
Medecins du Monde
For information on any of these events use the Challenge Finder at the top of the page.
Classic Tours supports Climate Care a service that
helps you off-set the carbon emission created from your charity challenge
flight. It does this by ‘offsetting’ the greenhouse gas emissions, such as CO2,
from your activities by reducing an equivalent amount of CO2 on your behalf.
If you would like to offset your carbon emissions, please use the flight
calculator displayed here.
To find out more visit www.climatecare.org.
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