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One of the main factors in choosing the location of our holidays is the presence of local communities which can benefit from low-impact responsible tourism. We work to bring new income to rural restaurants and small family-run enterprises, and our locally based manager lives as part of this community, in a rural village. They source the majority of packed-lunch ingredients directly from their village neighbours: delicious fresh vegetables picked that day from gardens, and cheese from local shepherds.
We work closely with the local community to ensure that our presence has positive benefit to the region. Our directors and staff are involved in projects such as assisting in clearing footpaths which are used by local people, and contributing to the cost of flowers for the village shrines.
Both World Wars seriously affected this landscape and people, with consequences which are still felt today. In WW1 one of the bloodiest battle fronts in Europe was along the Soca River, with around one million casualties in this area alone. We outline the region’s turbulent history in our handbook and encourage a visit to Kobarid’s award-winning museum, to help gain an understanding of these terrible episode. On some walks one can still find evidence of trenches, fortifications and shrapnel.
All our local transportation is carbon-offset through a scheme in place with the Carbon Neutral Company. Our brochure production and distribution is also carbon offset through a similar scheme, and we offer all our clients the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions caused by their flights too. We encourage and arrange train travel and provide details on how this holiday can be reached by train, thereby avoiding flying altogether. Our brochure and all other literature and correspondence uses recycled paper, and we operate a rigorous recycling and energy saving policy both at our UK office and all our destinations, as well as encouraging and assisting our local suppliers to do the same.
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!
