Activities Abroad
Activities Abroad is a specialist activity holiday company.
We provide adventure sports holidays in France, Spain, Turkey, Slovenia, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, The Czech Republic, Finland and the UK.
We produce three brochures dedicated to Family Holidays, Adult Only Holidays and Winter Activity Holidays featuring everything from White Water Rafting to Dog Sled Safaris in Finnish Lapland.
In each destination, we offer a flexible programme which allows clients to be as active or inactive as they like while on holiday.
In addition, we offer sky diving courses in Spain and California as well as tailor made breaks for groups.
Member since: 11 Feb 2005
How the minimum criteria of the responsible travel standard was met...
Economic responsibility
- We firmly believe that the communities and areas to which we send our clients should benefit economically. The very nature of our holidays means that we operate for the main part in remote rural and coastal areas where employment can be limited. Hence, we always ensure that we use local accommodation, transport and activity providers. This enables local economies to benefit directly and through the tourism multiplier effect, helping to generate incomes and sustain employment in areas where the drift might otherwise be towards larger employment areas such as cities and towns.
- Our policy, wherever possible, is to use local or family run hotels and guesthouses, steering away from large chains whose main beneficiaries tend to be shareholders and senior management.
Environmental responsibility
- The management at Activities Abroad is all to well aware of the negative impacts tourism can have on the environment and take all possible steps to negate these impacts.
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We have recently adopted digital brochures on our website which allow our clients to view all our brochures online. This action has considerably reduced our brochure print run and our fervent hope is that we will produce no paper brochures in the not too distant future.
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Our holidays rely on using beautiful and unspoilt areas, often in remote rural or mountainous areas.
- Naturally, we wish to maintain the natural settings in which we work, not just for the future of our company, but also for future generations.
- Hence, we always insist that our local providers are equally conscious of this need. We insist that all litter and rubbish is removed from any of our activity sites, we strongly encourage group transfers, reducing the volume of road traffic and make our clients aware of their obligation to the environment and local communities.
Social responsibility
- We fully appreciate the impact of tourist visits on local communities and residents and strive to be sure that we are having a positive effect.
- Hence, as stated above, we always use locally owned providers with the aim of distributing the financial benefits throughout the local economy.
- We also encourage our clients to respect the lives of local inhabitants by learning a few important words, Hello, Goodbye, Please, Thank You etc and where possible to become involved in local events and learn about the their lives.
