Rio Carnival small group tour

Carbon reduction

Your holiday will help support local people and conservation. We must also reduce CO₂. Learn about the CO₂ emissions of this holiday and how to reduce them.

Environment

All of our activities on this wonderful Carnaval experience in the party city of Buenos Aires are delivered by local Carioca, these are the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. For example, if we choose to take a guided walking tour around Lapa and Central Rio de Janeiro, we use a responsible local operator that provides training and employment to many local people as guides, providing them with stable employment in the tourism industry.
We are dedicated to minimising the effects our trips have on the environment, and are committed to ensuring that we have a positive impact on the local communities we travel through.

During our week in Rio de Janeiro, we will be travelling using a combination of buses and the local metro, thus reducing carbon-emissions. Passengers and crew are encouraged to use rechargeable batteries for items such as cameras.

In the office and as a company: We are committed to trying to reduce, re-use and recycle as much as is possible: we reduce what we print by using email and online media for the majority of our communication; any necessary print is always 2-sided and all paper products (in addition to plastics, glass, cardboard, oils and metal) are recycled. We minimise our energy consumption in whatever way we can (e.g. using energy efficient light bulbs and minimising water usage with reduced water cisterns in the bathroom for example).

Community

We are committed to promoting human rights within our sphere of influence – this means trying to ensure that everybody involved with us are treated with fairness and respect, including our office staff, crew, local guides and suppliers, as well as all the other stakeholders.

We are also involved with a variety of community projects in key destinations as we visit. Our involvement with these projects is a long-term commitment, allowing us and our passengers to participate directly in delivering real practical benefits to the communities we travel through on the ground. The projects are not tourist initiatives, but a way of employing tourism to generate funding and support and facilitate community interaction.
We believe that local culture and communities must be an integral part of our trips. We recognise that we are guests of the local communities we travel through and strive to make these communities into our partners.

Wherever we are in the world, we prefer to use smaller locally-owned businesses, ensuring that local communities gain a direct economic benefit from our business; for example, we use small locally owned hotels, campsites and activity providers wherever possible.