Tourismus Group Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
Policy brief and purpose
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) company policy refers to our responsibility toward our environment. Our company’s existence is not lonely. It’s part of a more extensive system of people, values, other organizations, and nature. The social responsibility is to give back to the world just as it gives to us.
What is corporate social responsibility?
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) company policy outlines our efforts to give back to the world as it gives to us.
Scope
This policy applies to our company and its subsidiaries. It may also refer to suppliers and partners.
Policy elements
We want to be a responsible business that meets the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.
Our company’s social responsibility falls under two categories: compliance and proactiveness. Compliance refers to our company’s commitment to legality and willingness to observe community values. Proactiveness is every initiative to promote human rights, help communities and protect our natural environment.
Compliance
Legality
Our company will:
- Respect the law.
- Honor its internal policies.
- Ensure that all its business operations are legitimate.
- Keep every partnership and collaboration open and transparent.
Business ethics
We’ll always conduct business with integrity and respect for human rights. We’ll promote:
- Safety and fair dealing.
- Provide the utmost respect toward our customers.
- Anti-bribery and anti-corruption practices.
- Treat our partners with respect.
Protecting the environment
Our company recognizes the need to protect the natural environment. Keeping our environment clean and unpolluted is a benefit to all. We’ll always follow best practices when disposing of garbage and using chemical substances. Stewardship will also play an important role.
Protecting people
We’ll ensure that:
- We don’t risk the health and safety of our employees and community.
- We avoid harming the lives of local and indigenous people.
- We support diversity and inclusion.
Human rights
Our company is dedicated to protecting human rights. We are a committed equal opportunity employer and will abide by all fair labor practices. We’ll ensure that our activities do not directly or indirectly violate human rights in any country (e.g., forced labor).
Proactiveness
Donations and aid
Our company may preserve a budget to make monetary donations. These donations will aim to:
- Advance the arts, education, and community events.
- Improve the environment.
- Alleviate those in need.
- Provide greater working opportunities to the community.
Volunteering
Our company will encourage its employees to volunteer. They can volunteer through programs organized internally or externally. Our company may sponsor volunteering events from other organizations.
Preserving the environment
Apart from legal obligations, our company will proactively protect the environment. Examples of relevant activities include:
- Recycling.
- We are conserving energy.
- We are organizing reforestation excursions.
- We are using environmentally-friendly technologies.
- Ensuring we use fuel-efficient vehicles or electric vehicles during our excursion.
- Promote the use of public transportation.
- Promote riding the bike to the office or our tours.
- Monitoring our brands for them to use e-vehicles or bikes when possible
- Work closely with our accommodation providers to reduce plastic use in our guests’ rooms and enhance electronic usage.
- Move forward to use electronic materials for brochures, presentations, tickets, etc.. and eliminate paper at Tourismus Group.
- Use renewable/electrical efficient products and items, such as light bulbs, computers, printers, and more.
Supporting the community
Our company may initiate and support community investment and educational programs. For example, it may begin partnerships with vendors for constructing public buildings. It can help nonprofit organizations or movements to promote global and local communities’ cultural and economic development. Examples include:
- Hire students from local universities.
- Promote less economic development region.
- Support the local tourism associations and enhance the tourism of the designated country.
- We organize tours to local farms, institutions, breweries, distilleries, etc.. promoting the local craftsmanship.
- Purchase our products from local farmers and producers
Learning
We will actively invest in R&D. We will be open to suggestions and listen carefully to ideas. Our company will try to improve the way it operates continuously.
Our company is committed to the United Nations Global Compact. We’ll readily act to promote our identity as a socially aware and responsible business. Management must communicate this policy on all levels. Managers are also responsible for resolving any CSR issues.