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The Porto Heli Team have come up with ten action points to further their commitment towards responsible travel.
The team will help each other to achieve these aims which will hopefully promote our company within our local surroundings and make it a better place to work and live in.
- Teach local school children to sail
- Keep powerboat speed to a minimum
- Try to speak more Greek
- Teach English to locals
- Remind ourselves of our social responsibility
- Keep the beach clean
- Take glasses to the bar
- More hotel staff interaction
- Keep the diesel pipe out of the water on the pontoon
- Clean staff accommodation (don’t leave it to the cleaners) The majority of our activities programmes are based on wind, pedal or muscle power, providing enough energy to satisfy most thrill-seeking speed-freaks in the most environmentally benign way we know how. We can also cater for our more sedate guests, however! We no longer use anti-fouling on our day boats and where possible we use 4-stroke outboard engines on our powerboats to reduce noise, fuel consumption and emissions.
We have tasked our overseas staff to identify 3 long-term initiatives that will bring positive benefits to the economies, communities and environments in which they live and work.
We are working with The Travel Foundation to seek ways to develop practical, sustainable tourism solutions to help protect and enhance holiday destinations.
And we are also working with the Federation of Tour Operators to develop responsible travel codes of practice.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
