Turkey swimming holiday

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION
We have designed our trip operations carefully to minimize our impact on our environment. By its very nature, exploring the world via swimming – “human powered”, means our guests are not using unnecessary motorized vehicles to enjoy their holiday destination. We try to keep our transfer times as short as possible, ensuring guests spend less time travelling and more time swimming on their swim vacation. All our trips are sold without flights so travellers have the option to use more environmentally friendly means of travel if they wish. We share all guest arrival times so that collective transfers can be arranged.

Vegetarian & Vegan food is available daily from both our hotel and the local restaurants that we choose to visit in the evenings. The hotel uses fresh local ingredients from the local fishermen and farms to create delicious Greek meals with plenty of olives from the groves on the island.

Our partner hotel in Kas, are committed to reducing Carbon and carry out the following measures within their hotel: Recyclable materials are separated, the change period of hotel bed linen, towels and sheets to limited to 3 days to reduce water consumption, completely organic solid hand soaps are used in the rooms and all other common areas, -A system is used to cut off the electrical energy after our guests leave the room, energy efficient bulbs are used in 75% of their lighting systems. Additionally the hotel has solar panels and some of the hot water needs are provided from these panels reducing electricity consumption.

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE
As swimmers, we are passionate about the environment and taking measures to protect both the oceans and lands including all local wildlife.. Our hotel in Kas is committed to controlling the amount of water, electricity, energy, chemicals, solid waste to minimize the damage to the environment and natural resources. Additionally, the hotel partner with local animal shelters to provide old sunbed cushions, towels and sheets for use as bedding.

We continue to be reminded of the problem of plastic in our oceans. As such, we are committed to helping reduce to amount of plastic we use on our trips. We do this by:
• Encouraging guests to bring their own reusable water bottle on tour, or purchasing one of our non-plastic reusable alternatives
• Running regular guide plastic clean up sessions in our locations
• Using locally grown produce and home-cooked food wherever available to reduce the amount of plastic food packaging bought

People

LOCAL ECONOMY
We work closely alongside our guides to deliver an unforgettable holiday experience for our guests. Our local partners provide an invaluable wealth of local knowledge, not only on the safety front, but also by enhancing our guest’s cultural experiences – from food, to customs and hidden-away local gems. Through years of building happy, positive relationships with our local partners, we are confident in the knowledge that our guests will receive a wonderful warm welcome.

The Aqua Princess hotel; commit to work with local supplier where possible to support employment and economic growth in the local area.

As most of our locations are small and remote, we make sure that our itineraries ‘spread the happiness’ meaning we take the guests to visit different businesses within the community. For example, we arrange for evening meals to be hosted at a local restaurants each night, ensuring that the economic benefits brought about by our operation are distributed in an equitable way on the island.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY
Equal opportunities are at the core of what we do. We are pleased to advise that Aqua Princess hotel where you will stay offer equal opportunities in recruitment and there is no discrimination based on religion, language or race. Women currently make up 40% of their workforce and they are pleased to offer the following employee benefits: laundry use for free of charge cleaning of uniforms, free lodgings for those employees needing it and a free of charge staff cafeteria.

All our trips are inclusive and everyone is welcome to join us as long as we can make suitable arrangements for any individual needs. The trip is LGBTQ+ friendly and we are happy to discuss individual needs relating to mobility, vision, hearing or cognitive issues and as long as we can put in place measures to ensure the trip remains safe for all guest, we welcome everyone.