Sustainability Policy
POLICY DOCUMENT
Mission Statement
Vision
We strive to more locally themed tours and excursions, to promote local crafts and acknowledge tourists about supporting local.
Principles
Important Issues
Our Commitment
We acknowledge we have limited influence over third parties, but nevertheless, we shall educate them of our policy and encourage them to align operating practices with policy objectives.
Our attention to environmental, social and economic responsibility includes working within the law on the issues that are important to us and our stakeholders. We commit to strive for quality services and environment for our employees, suppliers, stakeholders and guests.
Objectives
1. Minimize negative social and environmental impacts in the areas of waste and energy in internal management and provided tours and excursions.
2. Ensure our supplier partners has responsible social and environmental practices.
3. Educate and improve our guides and guiding services, to communicate responsible actions to the tourists.
4. Local representatives and guides, contracted by the company, are appropriately qualified.
5. Always give advantage to local suppliers and vendors. Local food and beverages are used in the office as well on the tours.
6. Create innovative approach with local stakeholders to responsible create and develop tourism that will improve local economy without degradation.
7. Any disturbance of natural ecosystems or exploitation of natural resources is minimized and acted against it by law.
8. Promote local buying and support local vendors.
9. Educate and improve sustainable knowledge and actions of the employees.
10. Avoid all supplier partners who are acting against human rights and are engaged in any kind of exploitation of their employees and resources.
11. Our action plans will be distributed to all employees and encouraged to implement them accordingly.
12. We will report on our progress once per year.
13. We will encourage all our suppliers to take a detailed insight to our report and try to improve sustainability actions accordingly.
14. All tour leaders, guides, local representatives and other parties contracted by the company, are working in accordance with all legal requirements.
15. All employees in the company, or contracted staff, are working in accordance with to provide quality life, to not be exploited, have a minimal required wage by law and to respect human rights in all matters.
16. Reduce use of disposable goods, using more emails instead of printing notes, use re-usable bottles instead of plastic bottles, reuse pens, reduce garbage bags. Atlas Express d.o.o., Portoroz shall sort all the waste in the office in specific waste disposal (paper, glass, plastic and other waste), all such specific disposal should be signed and instructed to waste bins. There shall be reminder and limited number to all employees, to use less waste, especially plastic and unrecycled packages.
17. Use locally produced food and beverages and promote local purchasing when on tours and excursion. Give advantage to local suppliers and to those who are working within sustainable principles.
18. Reduce energy waste, especially with heating and air conditioning and lighting. Atlas Express d.o.o., Portoroz ensures that the heater/cooler is turned off after the working hours.All computers are switched off after working hours as well and the lighting in the office are not turned on when there is no need to use them (natural light, after working hours). All computers do not have screensavers and the monitors are set to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity. On all energy wasting consumption there are notes with reminders that all energy consuming devices, should be turned off.
19. Encourage employees to use recyclable paper and encourage the re-use of paper for other, if not entirely damaged. Atlas Express d.o.o., Portoroz is encouraging all employees to limit the paper use and increase usage of emails and online notes, to pass the news and briefings for all employees, as well to communicate with supplier partners. All marketing actions shall be increasingly using electronic devices for all promotions and publicity, all brochures and printed material shall be issued and published without dates, so they can be mused. Regarding paper, all employees are encouraged to print less and use default printer settings to ensure more economical and ecological printing settings.
20. All transportation used for excursions and tours shall be appropriately selected, according to the number of the tourists and reach for the goal, that all buses and coaches will make an efficient way towards destination, to drop less fuel emissions and engage more often buses that are using MAN Pure Diesel concept, in which is associated with maintenance savings and reverse materials.
21. Promote sustainable mode of transport to customers, when possible or when route is easy to be reached with bikes, which can be rented by company.
22. Promote sustainable destinations and tours and communicate sustainability altematives to customers.
23. Communicate sustainable requirements to suppliers and providers at tours and excursions.
24. Offer training materials to guides and local representatives about sustainable principles and objectives.