Responsible Holidays

A Responsible Approach
We recognise our responsibility to the people and places we visit. To us it’s more than just preserving the landscape – we travel in small groups to minimise any disruption to local communities and ecosystems. We are also keen to use facilities and services owned by local people to help preserve the local communities and cultures and contribute to their economies..

Climate Care

As part of our commitment to reducing our impact on the planet we are now working with Climate Care, to offset the CO2 emissions for all our staff flights, our vehicle use and the energy we use in the Skedaddle office. We have introduced supplements for all our tours, so that you can now opt to offset your carbon emissions on your holidays with us. We encourage all our staff to use public transport or of course cycle to work, with a bike provided for all staff.

Our cycling holidays enable people to travel at a pace only small groups allow, making the most each country has to offer while sensitively interacting with its people, their way of life and their natural environment. We recognise that in operating our holidays that we have a responsibility to respect other people’s places and ways of life. As such our aim is to be responsible in the way we impact on a destination. We will inform our clients about our travel policy and encourage them to participate through their own actions and activities. Through our own practices and through work with our suppliers and partners we will aim to achieve the following:

Protect the Environment and conserve natural resources
  • Encourage our staff to cycle, walk or use public transport to work.
  • Operate recycle paper systems in the office and use print cartridges that are recycled
  • Use recycled and environmentally friendly paper for our promotional publications , brochures and letter-head.
  • Provide travellers with Travellers Codes that encourage the reduction of water usage, systems for collecting, recycling or safe disposal of litter and relevant suggestions to minimise damage to the environment, wildlife and marine ecosystems.
  • In each destination we will aim to work with or encourage local destination partners to work with appropriate local projects with direct or indirect environmental benefits.
  • We will design holidays with a maximum group size of 12 to 15 people minimising both the social and environmental impact.
  • While recognising the need for motor vehicle support and back up in certain circumstances we will where possible use locally owned and appropriate vehicles and look to minimise their impact on the natural environment.
Provide economic benefits to the people and places we visit
  • In all our destinations we will work with small local destination companies or locally based people that contribute fully to the local economy and employ local guides.
  • We will aim to work with these partners on a long-term basis developing close, transparent and mutually beneficial working relationships.
  • We aim to ensure that the local supplier, their employees and guides receive a fair wage for their activities measured by locally appropriate standards.
  • Working with local people in designing itineraries and holidays we will aim to use small locally owned accommodation, equipment and food providers that employ local people.
  • In each destination we will inform travellers of the ways in which they can do more to ensure their purchases or activities benefit the local economy.
Respect local cultures and communities
  • In all our destinations we work with smaller local suppliers or locally based people that employ local guides who understand and work with local communities to provide authentic experiences in a sensitive way.
  • We will provide travellers with accurate pre-trip information on the social and political situation and with suggestions of ways to minimise negative impacts on local cultures.
  • Where appropriate our holidays will be involve local guides when accompanying visits to local communities
  • Working with local people in the design of our holidays we will only visit areas where local people are happy to be visited and do so in a way that supports understanding of the local community.
  • In each destination we will inform travellers of the ways in which they can do more to benefit local social projects with direct or indirect benefits to the host community.

As a company, within the constraints of our organisations size, we will encourage and support practices and policies that ensure that the benefits of the worlds tourism industry are maximised for the local economies and ideally have a positive impact on the broader development of the countries visited. Developing responsible tourism policy and cycling holidays is an ongoing process. Let us know your thoughts on our holidays and how you feel they could be more responsible and on our policy more generally info@skedaddle.co.uk