Tour Operators and Travel Agencies
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Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Questions
In this section, you will find the list of 'Tour Operators and Travel Agencies' questions that is used in the Tour Operators and Travel Agencies sector ranking matrices. The questions are categorized into three areas: Labour Conditions and Human Rights, Climate Change and Ecology. Clicking on a question heading will provide you with more background information, guidelines and possible jurisdiction for the question.
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Questions about Climate Change
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 1:
Is there a policy for the brand (company) to minimize, reduce or compensate carbon emissions?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 2:
Has the brand (company) disclosed the annual carbon footprint of its 'own operations'?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 3:
Has the brand (company) already reduced or compensated the carbon footprint of its 'own operations' by at least 10% in the last 5 years?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 4:
Has the brand (company) set a target to reduce the carbon footprint of its 'own operations' by at least 20% within the next 5 years?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 5:
Does the brand (company) give consumers information on CO2 compensation?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 6:
Does the brand (company) give consumers the option to compensate for CO2 when booking a flight or other means of transportation?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Climate Change Question 7:
Is CO2 compensation for flights or other means of transport already included in sales prices?
Questions about Ecology
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 1:
Does the brand (company) use environmentally 'preferred' paper for more than 90% of its total use, or has the brand reduced its annual use by 40% in the last 5 years?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 2:
Does the brand (company) refrain from offering trips to extremely fragile destinations like Antarctica and the Galapagos islands, unless organized in an ecologically responsible way?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 3:
Does the brand (company) tell consumers specifically which souvenirs are forbidden because they are made of endangered animal and plant species?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 4:
Does the brand (company) give consumers general information about sustainable tourism?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 5:
Does the brand (company) give consumers 'product specific' information about sustainability?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 6:
Has the brand (company) screened at least 50% of its accommodations for sustainability and reported on the results?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Ecology Question 7:
Does at least 1% of the brand's (company's) accomodations have a certification for environmental protection?
Questions about Labour Conditions and Human Rights
Currently, this section only has two basic questions because Tour Operators and Travel Agencies usually don't have independent monitoring mechanisms, let alone labour conditions and human rights policies. Therefore, to push the sector towards CSR and transparency, we decided to start with the following two questions. As CSR improvements are made across the sector, we will increase the number of questions, thus raising the level of CSR that a brand must reach to attain a higher rank.
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Question 1:
Does the brand (company) refrain from working with suppliers (like hotels) that employ children under the age of 15 (child labour)?
Tour Operators and Travel Agencies Question 2:
Does the brand (company) have a zero-tolerance policy concerning child prostitution?
