Last updated: 10 March 2023
As a travel company that works closely with stakeholders throughout the tourism industry, including consumers, guides, agencies, and local businesses, we understand our vital role in shaping sustainable travel practices. Asian Heritage Treks and Travel prioritizes sustainability by implementing practices that maximize positive impacts while minimizing negative ones on tourism and local communities. We are committed to managing and improving our environmental, social, and economic impacts, resulting in a more responsible and sustainable travel experience.
We will assess our progress in sustainability by comparing our actions with relevant environmental laws set by specialized organizations. Our company will monitor our progress on an annual basis and update our policy accordingly if needed. Finally, we commit ourselves to honestly communicating our organizationâs policy and sustainability objectives to all staff members, clients, partners, and authorities.
To that end, we have established the following sustainability policy. It’s divided into 11 themes, each of which consists of a set of principles and practical actions accordingly:
We commit to sustainable management by practicing the following actions:
We commit to complying with all national legislation, regulations, and codes of practice.Â
We commit to sustainable internal management by having a clear, written, and well-communicated social policy that includes the following principles:
We commit to practicing environmental protection and enhancing community relations by ensuring the enforcement of the following practices:
Based on an inventory of our key partner agencies, we have developed and implemented a policy to improve the sustainability of our partner agencies. Our aim is to make sustainable development concrete for each and every partner within our business. We commit to this by:
We try to ensure that vehicles used on tours do not cause more than average pollution. We believe that transport is an important aspect of sustainable tourism, and we do our best to decrease the average pollution level. We commit to this by:
We try to achieve a tourism supply chain that is fully sustainable. Partner accommodations are essential for achieving this goal, as they inspire and motivate us to embrace sustainable practices. We commit to this by:
Terminating cooperation with accommodation in case there is clear evidence that contracted accommodations jeopardize the integrity of basic services such as food, water, energy, healthcare, or soil to the neighboring companies.
We value animal and community welfare extremely high and aim at tours that only leave a minor footprint. We are safeguarding the authenticity of the communities and the natural environment and are strongly against harming wildlife and polluting the environment. We commit to this by:
We aim at involving as many locals as possible by employing them in the tourism business. We stand for a fair and safe working environment that supports and respects local communities. We commit to this by:
We aim to maximize positive impacts and minimize negative impacts at destinations to ensure the sustainable development of the places that we operate in. We commit to this by:
At Asian Heritage Treks and Expeditions, we believe that the power of responsible business goes beyond profit margins and bottom lines. Our commitment to ethical and sustainable practices is deeply ingrained in our corporate culture, driving us to make choices that benefit not only our customers but also society and the environment as a whole.
Customer welfare and information are very important to us. We ensure clear and constant communication and high protection for our clients.
Make available a company guideline for client consultation, which is followed by client advisors.
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We will continuously review and improve our sustainability performance by:
By implementing this sustainability policy, we hope to promote sustainable tourism practices that benefit the environment, local communities, and our clients while ensuring the long-term success of our business.
Asian Heritage Treks and Travels commits to and declares that we make all the necessary efforts to follow and comply with all the above stated. We will update the present policy regularly and take the needed measures when we fail to comply with it, analyzing ourselves, our actions, what we did good or wrong, and how we can continuously improve ourselves as persons and our organization, hopefully resulting in a better business environment and a better world.
Saru Tamang
Sustainability Coordinator