Sustainability
Protection of Minors
Heritage Protection
Sustainability Policy
Responsible Tourism
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
Tips based on the World Tourism Organization's Global Code of Ethics for Tourism: ● You must maintain order and cleanliness on the beaches and natural areas you visit. Do not litter or throw away food scraps. Take special care in protected natural areas. Try to minimize trash generation, reject products with unnecessary packaging, and choose to use recyclable containers. ● Take care of your rooms and the various facilities available to you. Treat locals and hotel employees with respect. Remember to drink in moderation to avoid affecting other people with possible behaviors under the influence of alcohol. ● Respect human rights. Any form of exploitation violates the fundamental objectives of tourism. The sexual exploitation of children is a punishable crime, both where it takes place and in the tourist's country of residence. ● Protect wildlife, and do not purchase products made from endangered plants or animals. ● Respect cultural resources. Tourist activities should be carried out with respect for artistic and cultural heritage. Your trip can contribute to economic and social development. Buy local handicrafts and products to support the local economy, and adhere to the principles of fair trade. Handicrafts are the most important reflection of local culture and identity, and their benefits go directly to the people of the places visited. Furthermore, they are produced with very low environmental impact and contribute to increasing appreciation for local culture. Remember to turn off the taps and the air conditioning and lights when you leave the hotel. This will help prevent wasting water and energy, extremely valuable resources for the entire planet.
Responsible Tourism
Tips based on the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism of the World Tourism Organization
● You must maintain order and cleanliness on the beaches and natural areas you visit. Do not throw trash or food scraps. Take special care in protected natural areas. Try to minimize the generation of garbage, refuse products with unnecessary packaging and chooses to use recyclable packaging.
● Take care of the rooms and the different facilities at your disposal. Try to respect the locals and hotel employees. Remember drink in moderation to avoid affecting other people with possible behaviors under the influence of alcohol.
● Respect human rights. Any form of exploitation violates the fundamental objectives of tourism. Child sexual exploitation is a crime punishable in the place where it is carried out as in the country of residence of the tourist.
● Protect the flora and wildlife, and do not buy products made from endangered plants or animals products.
● Respect cultural resources. Tourism activities should be conducted with respect for the artistic and cultural heritage.
● Your trip can contribute to economic and social development. Buy local crafts and products to support the local economy, and stick to the principles of fair trade. Crafts are the most important reflection of local culture and identity and its profits go directly to the populations of the localities visited. In addition, they are produced with very low impact on the environment and contribute to increase the appreciation of local culture.
Our Programs
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Water Saving Control irrational water consumption, seek optimal use of the resource, and mitigate the impact caused by one's own activities, generating environmental awareness and a commitment to best practices.
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Energy Saving Program Control irrational energy consumption, seeking optimal use of resources and mitigating the impact caused by the company's own activities, generating environmental awareness and a commitment to best practices.
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Integrated Waste Management Control the generation and inadequate disposal of waste, seeking to mitigate the negative impacts caused to the environment, through strategies that allow creating ecological awareness and commitment to the development of best practices in the company's human talent.
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Program to Minimize the Use of Chemicals The main objective of this program is to minimize the use of chemical products and to properly manage products that can affect the environment.
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Social Development Program To be promoters of social development as an opportunity for development and improvement of the quality of life of each individual and of society as a whole.
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Program for the Protection of Flora and Fauna Implement strategies for the care of fauna and flora through their care, thus helping the country and the world to raise awareness that we are destroying nature day by day.
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Sexual Exploitation and Prevention Program To raise action-oriented awareness among all staff regarding the prevention of child sex trafficking.
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Cultural heritage strengthening program Identify the region's cultural heritage sites in order to promote them for local cultural and economic contributions.
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Program for the prevention of atmospheric, auditory and visual pollution Promote the control and reduction of air, noise and visual pollution
Program for the prevention of atmospheric, auditory and visual pollution
SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
At Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM we are committed to developing our activities under sustainability guidelines with the aim of promoting and encouraging the following good practices for internal processes:● Make optimal use of environmental resources that are a fundamental element of tourism development, maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve natural resources and biological diversity.● Strive to reduce energy and water consumption, avoid water pollution, minimize waste and encourage the recycling of resources that allow it.● Direct the functions of our agency to avoid any type of physical or moral risk to its stakeholders.● Contribute to the preservation of the uniqueness of the destinations offered in order to conserve the tourist heritage. Likewise, provide more information on the cultural and social heritage of the different destinations being operated. Ensure viable long-term economic activities that provide all stakeholders with well-distributed sociocultural benefits, including stable employment and income opportunities and social services for host communities, and that contribute to poverty reduction. Conduct promotional campaigns to reject the sexual exploitation of children worldwide. Participate in activities that generate benefits for vulnerable segments of the community. Promote the hiring of native personnel from the destinations being marketed, providing more employment for people in the region.
Sustainability Policy
In Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM we are committed to developing our activities under sustainability guidelines in order to promote and develop the following best practices for internal processes:● To make optimal use of environmental resources that constitute a key element in tourism development, maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve natural resources and biodiversity.● To reduce the consumption of energy and water, prevent water pollution, minimize waste and encourage recycling of resources allow.● To route functions of our agency to avoid any kind of physical or moral risk of its stakeholders.● To contribute to the preservation of the uniqueness of the destinations offered in order to preserve the heritage tourism. Also give more information on the cultural and social heritage of the various destinations that are taking place.● To ensure viable economic activities in the long term to report to all stakeholders that are fairly distributed socio-cultural benefits, including opportunities for obtaining stable income and social services to host communities have employment, and contribute to reducing the poverty.● To promote campaigns on the rejection of child sexual exploitation in the world. Also, engaging in activities that generate benefits for vulnerable segments in the community.● To hire innate staff in destinations that are marketed giving more jobs to people in its regions.
Sustainability requirements
Code of Conduct - Against Child Exploitation
In order to counteract exploitation, pornography and sex tourism involving children and adolescents, at Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM in compliance with Law 679 of 2001, Law 1336 of 2009 and Resolution 3840 of 2009, we commit to the following legal obligations:
● Refrain from offering, either explicitly or surreptitiously, plans for the sexual exploitation of minors in tourism promotion programs and tourism plans. ● Adopt measures to prevent Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM employees, dependents, or intermediaries from offering tourism services that include sexual contact with minors. ● Protect national and foreign minors from all forms of sexual exploitation and violence originating in national and foreign tourists. ● Incorporate information on the legal consequences of exploitation, pornography, and sex tourism involving children and adolescents into our tourism advertising. ● Refrain from providing information to tourists, directly or through their employees, about places where sexual services with minors are arranged or provided. ● Refrain from directing tourists to establishments or places where prostitution of minors is practiced. ● Refrain from driving minors, directly or through employees, to tourist accommodations, even at offshore locations, for the purpose of child prostitution. ● Refrain from leasing or using vehicles on tourist routes for prostitution or bars, similar businesses, and other tourist establishments for the purpose of prostitution or sexual abuse of minors. ● Prohibit minors from entering hotels or lodging facilities, bars, similar businesses, and other tourist establishments for the purpose of prostitution or sexual abuse of minors. ● Reject child labor exploitation. ● Reject racial or gender discrimination. ● Promptly report any cases of child sex trafficking detected among suppliers to the local police and/or competent authorities. ● We ask clients, suppliers, partners, and other agencies to reject participation in the sexual exploitation of minors and to report all cases of child sexual exploitation of which they become aware. ● Report incidents related to the sexual exploitation of minors to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism, the Attorney General's Office, the ICBF, and other relevant agencies.
We are also committed to implementing monitoring mechanisms, preventive and corrective measures aimed at preventing the exploitation, pornography, and sex tourism of children and adolescents (requesting permission to leave the country for minors not traveling with their parents, among others), and also to address non-compliance with this Code. To this end, we have appointed Mr. Mauricio Rios, General Manager, to verify its proper compliance. Anyone who engages in exploitation, pornography, and sex tourism involving children and adolescents will be punished with imprisonment and financial and administrative sanctions by the competent authorities.
Code of Conduct · Against child exploitation
We are also committed to implement mechanisms for monitoring, preventive and corrective measures to prevent exploitation, pornography and sexual tourism involving children and adolescents (Application exit permit minors traveling without their parents, among others) also against the breach of this Code, for this we have appointed Mr. Mauricio Rios General Manager to verify proper compliance. Whoever commits exploitation, pornography and sexual tourism involving children and adolescents, it shall be punished with deprivation of liberty and pecuniary penalties and administrative measures by the competent authorities.
● Refrain from offering programs in tourism promotion and tourism plans, express or surreptitiously plans sexual exploitation of children.
● Adopt measures to prevent workers Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM dependent or intermediaries, offering tourist services that include sexual contact with minors.
● Protecting foreign minors from all forms of sexual exploitation and domestic violence caused by foreign tourists or age or national.
● To incorporate in our tourism advertising, information on the legal consequences of the exploitation, pornography and sexual tourism involving children and adolescents.
● Refrain from providing information to tourists, directly or through their employees about places where you coordinate or where sexual services with minors.
● Refrain from driving tourists to establishments or places where prostitution of minors is practiced.
● Refrain from driving to minors, directly or through employees, to places where tourists are staying, even if it is located offshore locations, for purposes of prostitution.
● Refrain from lease or use vehicles in tourist routes for prostitution or bars, similar businesses and other tourism establishments for prostitution or sexual abuse of minors.
● Prevent the entry of minors to hotels or places of accommodation and lodging, bars, similar businesses and other tourism establishments for prostitution or sexual abuse of minors.
● Refuse child labor.
● Rejecting discrimination based on race or gender.
● Timely reporting to the local police and / or competent authorities, cases of child sex trade are detected with suppliers.
● We ask the customers, suppliers, partners and other agencies to reject participation in the sexual exploitation of children and to report all cases of sexual exploitation of children which they are aware.
● Report to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the Attorney General's Office, the ICBF, and other relevant agencies, the facts relating to the sexual exploitation of minors.
● Adopt measures to prevent workers Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM dependent or intermediaries, offering tourist services that include sexual contact with minors.
● Protecting foreign minors from all forms of sexual exploitation and domestic violence caused by foreign tourists or age or national.
● To incorporate in our tourism advertising, information on the legal consequences of the exploitation, pornography and sexual tourism involving children and adolescents.
● Refrain from providing information to tourists, directly or through their employees about places where you coordinate or where sexual services with minors.
● Refrain from driving tourists to establishments or places where prostitution of minors is practiced.
● Refrain from driving to minors, directly or through employees, to places where tourists are staying, even if it is located offshore locations, for purposes of prostitution.
● Refrain from lease or use vehicles in tourist routes for prostitution or bars, similar businesses and other tourism establishments for prostitution or sexual abuse of minors.
● Prevent the entry of minors to hotels or places of accommodation and lodging, bars, similar businesses and other tourism establishments for prostitution or sexual abuse of minors.
● Refuse child labor.
● Rejecting discrimination based on race or gender.
● Timely reporting to the local police and / or competent authorities, cases of child sex trade are detected with suppliers.
● We ask the customers, suppliers, partners and other agencies to reject participation in the sexual exploitation of children and to report all cases of sexual exploitation of children which they are aware.
● Report to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the Attorney General's Office, the ICBF, and other relevant agencies, the facts relating to the sexual exploitation of minors.
Against exploitation, pornography and sexual tourism involving children and adolescents, Travel And Business Solutions SAS TRAVELGUIAS.COM in compliance with Law 679 of 2001, Law 1336 of 2009 and Resolution 3840 of 2009 We are committed to the following legal obligations:
PROTECTION OF HERITAGE
“Heritage is often defined as our legacy from the past, our present baggage, and the inheritance we will leave for future generations to learn from, marvel at, and enjoy.” UNESCO, 1998.
Cultural Heritage “The Cultural Heritage of the Nation is made up of all tangible assets, intangible manifestations, products and representations of culture that are an expression of Colombian nationality, such as the Spanish language, the languages and dialects of indigenous, black and Creole communities, tradition, ancestral knowledge, the cultural landscape, customs and habits, as well as tangible assets of a movable and immovable nature to which are attributed, among others, special historical, artistic, scientific, aesthetic or symbolic interest in areas such as plastic, architectural, urban, archaeological, linguistic, sound, musical, audiovisual, film, testimonial, documentary, literary, bibliographic, museological or anthropological”, according to Law 1185 of 2008, “By which Law 397 of 1997 -General Law of Culture- is modified and added and other provisions are issued”.
Cultural Heritage is made up of: I. Tangible or Material Heritage: As its name indicates, it is the materialization of culture, what we can touch. In turn, this heritage is subdivided into several groups: Immovable Heritage: This is what cannot be moved and includes cities, squares, parks, and buildings, among others. Movable Heritage: This is made up of bibliographic and documentary collections, monuments in public spaces, sculptures, works of art, household utensils, etc.
II. Intangible Heritage These are the manifestations, expressions, knowledge and practices that give a community or a human group a sense of identity, belonging and historical continuity. These manifestations are transmitted from generation to generation. The representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level is currently composed of five cultural manifestations (with 5 manifestations since the enactment of Law 1185 of 2008): Carnival of Whites and Blacks Traditional Knowledge of the Nukak-Makú National Band Contest of Paipa Institution of the Palabrero Wayuu Carnival of Río Sucio Two manifestations belong to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Carnival of Barranquilla Cultural Space of San Basilio de Palenque
Natural heritage is the set of all the country's protected natural areas. UNESCO stated in 1972 about this type of heritage: "Natural monuments consisting of physical and biological formations that have aesthetic or scientific value; geological and physiographic formations that constitute the habitat of threatened animal and plant species, which have value from a scientific or conservation point of view; and natural sites that have value for science, conservation, and natural beauty."
Source: Ministry of Education, Colombia Aprende
Heritage Protection
“The term of Heritage is often defined as our legacy from the past, our luggage in the present and the legacy we will leave to future generations so they can learn, marvel and enjoy it.” UNESCO, 1998.
Cultural Heritage
“The Cultural Heritage of the Nation consists of all material goods, intangible manifestations, products and representations of culture which are an expression of Colombia, such as the Spanish language nationality, languages and dialects of the indigenous communities, black and creoles, tradition, ancestral knowledge, cultural landscape, customs and habits, as well as furniture material goods and property nature to which is attributed, among others, special historical, artistic, scientific, aesthetic or symbolic in areas like plastic, architectural, urban, archaeological, linguistic, sound, musical, audiovisual, film, testimonial, documentary, literary, literature, museum or anthropological “according to Law 1185 of 2008″ Whereby is modified and supplementing the Law 397 of 1997 -Law General of Culture and other provisions. ”
Cultural Heritage is comprised of:
I. Material or tangible heritage:: It is as the name implies, the materialization of culture, what we can touch. In turn this heritage is subdivided into several groups:Heritage property: is what can not move and includes the cities, parks and buildings, among others.Heritage furniture: it is made up of library collections, documentaries, monuments in public space, sculptures, works of art, household utensils, etc.
I. Material or tangible heritage:: It is as the name implies, the materialization of culture, what we can touch. In turn this heritage is subdivided into several groups:Heritage property: is what can not move and includes the cities, parks and buildings, among others.Heritage furniture: it is made up of library collections, documentaries, monuments in public space, sculptures, works of art, household utensils, etc.
II. Intangible heritage
They are those statements, expressions, knowledge and practices that give a community and a group of people a sense of identity, belonging and historical continuity. These expressions are passed from generation to generation.In the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage representative at the national level it is made so far by five cultural events (5 events since the enactment of Law 1185 of 2008):Carnival of Blacks and WhitesTraditional knowledge of the Nukak-MakuNational Band Competition PaipaWayuu institution babblerCarnival in Rio SucioThe representative list of intangible cultural heritage belong two manifestations:Carnaval de BarranquillaCultural Space of Palenque de San Basilio
Natural Heritage
It is the set of all natural protected areas in the country. UNESCO said in 1972 this heritage: “The consistent natural monuments in physical and biological formations, which are aesthetic or scientific value; geological and physiographical formations that provide habitat for endangered animals and plant species that have value from the point of view of science or conservation; and natural places that have value for science, conservation and natural beauty.
