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Footprint Vietnam Travel

Aims
A small thing we do on our tours can make a big difference, so everyone at Footprint, we strive our best to minimize the impacts while gaining maximum enjoyment from your traveling experience.

Economic responsibility
  • We use local guides at all destinations in Vietnam so as to provide jobs to local young people, especially like Sapa, Ha Giang, Hue, Mekong
  • Footprint try our most to use local products like home stay in Sapa, Mekong and other locally owned hotels and guesthouses.
  • We buy local food of the place as we travel to
  • We take tourists to local restaurants where local food is being served by the local people.
  • We visit places of interests where they use fees to conservation.
  • At Footprint, we encourage our travellers to spend their money locally, e.g. buying local food and souvenirs.


Environmental responsibility
  • We try not to use paper for marketing promotion, we spend most of our money to attract people using internet, and encourage our clients not to print their emails.
  • We, on Footprint tours, try our best to a green travel, we reuse the bottle of waters on tours, we reuse the bags provided.
  • Footprint boats in Halong Bay, we try to use sails when possible and turn off the engines when boats are not running, we also use recharge batteries for our usage of lights on the boats so that we do not have to fuel a generator.
  • Footprint is now supporting several projects towards environmental sustainability e.g.: For a Green Halong Bay, Conservation of Cat ba Endangered Langurs, Cuc Phuong primate Center.
  • Our travellers are well informed before the trips on how to travel, keep on designed trails, leave no trash, taking only memories home, we must stay away from the wildlife.
  • We often turn off the AC when on buses, and try to share buses/cars on our tours.
  • We use eco-friendly hotels and guesthouses where they have commitment to usage of water, soap, electricity.
  • Footprint is now supporting several projects towards environmental sustainability e.g.: For a Green Halong Bay, Conservation of Cat ba Endangered Langurs, Cuc Phuong primate Center.
  • For a Green Halong Bay is a small project that aims to clean one part of the Bay which is actually the home of many fisherman, we train the locals here on environment and have them clean this part of the Bay daily. Footprint offers jobs to the locals here such as have them take care of the kayaks, have them row the clients on their fishing boat to visit their village.
  • The “Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project” was started in November 2000. By then the number of surviving langurs had further dropped - to a mere 53 individuals. The stopping of langur poaching therefore became the main objective of the conservation project.
  • Footprint supports to build the website of Catba langur and part of our profit is to donate to their conservation activities.
  • The EPRC was established in 1993, with a Memorandum of Agreement by the Ministry of Forestry and concerned international conservation organizations, following the confiscation of “Critically Endangered” and “Endangered” primates with the beginning of the “Vietnam Primate Conservation Programme” of the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Since then, the center has been managed under the supervision of Frankfurt Zoological Society and continues to be a part of the Programme. The final goal of the EPRC is the establishment of stable populations of highly endangered primate species in captivity as a source for further reintroduction programs. Footprint's education to travellers before they come to this center and part of our revenue from this tour goes into donation of the work they are doing here.
  • Footprint is doing our own CBT projects in Ha Giang, Sapa, Hoa Binh. We have worked with different communities and have been bringing lots of support there. The CBT projects that we are supporting now is that they are trying to help the locals to work together to make tourism in their communities in the responsible way which can generate the income but also preserve their cultures and customs. They set up homestay, crafts clubs, medicine herb bath and other activities, all in the very traditional ways to show customers while they are visiting the villages. We support them by working closely with them in making good eco or responsible products not to exploit their resources & cultures for tourism and we support them by bringing educated travellers to visit & stay with them.


Social responsibility
  • We fully understand our culture and society and provide our travellers with full information on our culture, customers, languages, code of conducts well in advance of the tours.
  • Footprint is doing our own CBT projects in Ha Giang, Sapa, Hoa Binh. We have worked with different communities and been bringing lots of supports there.
  • We help our travellers when they wish to volunteer there in the villages to help them.
  • We use hotels and guesthouses where they employ the local people like in Sapa, Halong, Mai Chau…
  • We work with a boat company in Halong Bay to help the local communities.
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