About Camino Travel Commitments
Visiting a new country is one of the best ways to open one’s mind !!! We believe in sustainability and we work continuously to put into practice the basic principles necessary for a better way of doing tourism that impacts the environment less and the visitor’s experience more.
WE STAND FOR:
Sustainable Tourism:
One of Camino Travel commitments is sustainability. We know that the concept of sustainability involves a great amount of responsibility and hard work, aside from the business related issues. Being sustainable means that we care to maintain a system of both local and global resources. We intend to do this by conserving and preserving the ecological and cultural integrity, promoting social and economic equity, understanding differences, promoting community involvement, and placing greater emphasis on education. We believe that if something is not sustainable it will eventually disappear. Therefore our daily goal is to take actions against practices that are not sustainable. one of most important Camino Travel commitments is to encourage sustainable business in tourism; not only by reducing the impact on the environment; but also with consideration to the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainability.
Certification for sustainable tourism for Tour
Operators CST-TO:
Camino Travel commitments with sustainable travel. Camino Travel is proud to be one of the first seven companies in Costa Rica to obtain the Certification for Sustainable Tourism for Tour Operators (CST-TO) achieving the fourth level. This certification is awarded by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) to distinguish companies according to the degree to which they comply with a sustainable model of natural, cultural and social resource management. The certification is regulated by the Costa Rican National Accreditation Commission and consists of a scale of 5 “levels” of sustainable tourism achievement. http://www.turismo-sostenible.co.cr/en
National Campaign against child sexual tourism
Camino Travel commitments with the Costa Rican childhood. is one of the sponsors of the National Campaign against child sexual tourism, run by the World Tourism Organization, along with Costa Rica’s National Childhood Institute, the Paniamor Childhood Foundation, and supported by the Costa Rican Tourist Board and the Costa Rican Association of Tour Operators (ACOT). Some actions taken in the fight against such situations include: not recommending, promoting or selling hotels that have been openly identified as hosts of sexual tourism activities; supporting campaigns and undersigning agreements against sexual Tourism. www.thecode.org