Adventure Base
Adventure Base is a holiday company based in the stunning French Alps resort of Chamonix. Offering completely flexible breaks all year round, our properties range from ‘cheap and cheerful’ studios through to luxury chalets with saunas and hot tubs. Specialising in skiing, snowboarding and ski touring holidays in winter, we also run specialist summer alpine trips, including walking, climbing, cycling, mountaineering, triathlon, and trail running holidays. The mountains are our passion. Our aim is to offer total flexibility – any number of nights, any budget – to guests who share our love for this amazing natural playground and the sports we enjoy.
Member since: 19 Aug 2009
How the minimum criteria of the responsible travel standard was met...
Economic responsibility
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Adventure Base believe that we have an economic responsibility to the community in
which we live, not just through financial contributions in taxes to the local authority –
whose ‘green’ campaign is admirable! - but also through supporting local small
businesses.
- As a company, we don’t automatically opt for the cheapest supplier – it’s
the closest, smallest, or friendliest who usually wins our business! We are committed
to supporting local campaigns, and are active members in the Chamonix Business
Forum – dedicated to Chamonix’s environmental development as a whole.
- Together as a network of holiday companies and suppliers we can achieve a whole lot more
than just one small business, to protect our fragile environment and continue to
promote our beautiful town in a sustainable and environmentally sympathetic way.
Environmental responsibility
- As a company, we recycle, reuse, and actively promote the environmentally friendly
option in terms of transport and travel around the valley. We support the Chamonix
tourist office’s campaign for an ‘eco-friendly’ town. We run shared minibuses, use
natural cleaning products (vinegar, baking soda etc), and run an almost entirely
paper free office.
- At Adventure Base we believe that
controlled enjoyment of our favourite pastimes needn’t leave a permanent scar on
our environment. Walkers and bikers can enjoy breathing pure mountain air,
travelling in a non polluting way, and sticking to the existing paths.
- Mountain biking and
road biking provide good clean air for hard working lungs, as well as a ‘clean’ mode
of transport to explore the area around us. Runners, skiers, triathletes, climbers,
mountaineers, parapenters and more – all share our beautiful mountain world,
travelling by non-polluting means, taking home so much in terms of experience,
passion, adrenalin and amazing memories … and leaving nothing behind!
Social responsibility
- Adventure Base are committed to maintaining a social responsibility to the
community in which we live. Chamonix is a diverse and multicultural ‘melting pot’ of
nationalities – all drawn to the mountain Mecca that is the Mont Blanc range.
- Adventure Base is fully integrated into the French society we live in. Our team of
staff are all fluent French speakers, we have both a French and an English company,
and we work closely with a network of trusted local suppliers.
- We are proud to be part of an exciting and developing community that is growing and changing
constantly, but we also recognise the importance of maintaining and supporting the
local heritage and history of where we choose to live and run our business.
