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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 Majella National Park to ensure that our presence has positive benefit to the region. Our directors and staff are involved in local projects to assist the Park in clearing and restoring footpaths which facilitate access to areas of natural beauty and historical importance.
The locally based Forest Protection League has an otter breeding programme to reintroduce these elusive animals to the Nature Reserve of the Orfento Gorge which lies directly below the town of Caramanico. We arrange organised visits to the Otter Breeding Centre to support the programme and develop understanding of the project.
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!
