2024
Certificate number: BAA 026/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified label is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It is a guarantee that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Descobrimentos World Travel Tours
Certificate number: BAA 026/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified label is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It is a guarantee that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Sustainability efforts
Here are some examples of how Descobrimentos World Travel Tours is committed to working towards global sustainability:
The global sustainability of Descobrimentos World Travel Tours
Read on if you want to chart a similar course to Descobrimentos World Travel Tours and lead a sustainable lifestyle.
- They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
Attributes
Plastic free
Environmental project
Solidarity project
Local economy
Sustainability areas
Environment and Climate Change
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
The company contributes to ensuring and promoting universal access to clean, smart and modern energy services:
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
Did you know that, according to UNEP, 931 million meals are wasted in the world every year? Here are the efforts it is making Descobrimentos World Travel Tours to fight against this scourge.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
- They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
- They prioritize the purchase and consumption of local and sustainable products and services.
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
Sustainable business management must include the perspective of respect for the marine environment and its resources. In this sense, Descobrimentos World Travel Tours has carried out the following actions:
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
- They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
- They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
As a strategy and measures relating to the prevention of negative impacts, from this entity:
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They provide information on the natural resources of the territory.
Society and Culture
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
- They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They care about training their staff.
- They promote knowledge about sustainable development.
Through sustainability, the role of women in companies can be strengthened. That's why Descobrimentos World Travel Tours is committed to revising its organizational structure. Read on to find out how:
To become a powerful tool for women's empowerment, from this entity:
- They promote labor empowerment in their work systems.
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
- They control and evaluate their measures of empowerment and equality.
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
Democracy is necessary for sustainable development, so we must recognize the efforts of this entity to work on actions such as:
To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:
- They make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They use indicators to measure their sustainable progress.
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
Governance and Economy
To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:
- For their supplies, they prioritize agri-food products and suppliers that follow more respectful and sustainable practices.
The creation of decent and productive employment is one of the fundamental pillars of economic and sustainable growth, which is why Descobrimentos World Travel Tours has decided to work along these lines.
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
- They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
- Encourage innovation and continuous improvement among their employees.
We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- They support SMEs and local businesses in the development of their activity.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
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