Sustainable Tourism Experiences
ELEMENTOS is on the way to change its developing of business to become a sustainable, innovative and successful company, with commitment and respect for the environment, for people and their culture and for the benefit of local development.
We are currently designing and implementing sustainability for the ELEMENTOS Tour Operator and the ELEMENTOS Hostel. While searching for new solutions, we have implemented a Sustainable Management System and expect to generate concrete results in social, environmental and economic dimensions.
As manager of sustainable tourism we are following the Global Criteria of Sustainable Tourism (CMTS) for the implementation of the International Standard for Sustainable Tourism "Smart Voyager", with high standards of quality, differentiation and leadership in the national tourism industry.
Some actions we have already implemented:
Sociocultural Sustainability |
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We are part of the Sustainable Tourism Commission of the Environmental Council of Pucón |
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We are part of the Eco Network of Sustainable Tourism of the Araucania |
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We help to raise the sterilization of stray dogs in Pucón |
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We offer employment to local people |
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We respect customs of local people and ethnic Mapuche groups and we invite them to share with our guests and passengers |
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We inform our passengers of the appropriate form of respectful behavior in ethnic areas |
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We support the project Fejup, which aims to bring young people of high social risk populations together with nature |
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Economical Sustainability |
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We prefer local suppliers and reinvest our revenues, if it is possible, in the community: our bread, jam, cheese, eggs, milk and hygiene products, etc. |
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We give employment to local people and respect the laws |
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We offer training opportunities to our suppliers, sales channels, guides and employees |
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We deal with prices that allow us to pay fair wages to our employees, to fulfill our obligation to pay VAT and the insurance for adventure tourism for the activities that require it |
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In the process, we are accompanied by the team of facilitators of CAMINA Sostenible - Escuela de Turismo & Desarrollo Sostenible (School of Tourism & Sustainable Development).