Chile and Argentina vacation, private departure

Planet

As a South America experts we carefully organise every vacation to ensure that our actions are ethical and that we actively helping to protect environment. Hotels that we are recommending in this tour are doing excellent job protecting environment. Our local offices across world and our guides are trained about environmental protection and also about sustainability. With their local knowledge we can deliver eco-friendly vacations without cutting standards.

We are working with many hotels and communities that are focusing on sustainability. In this tour we would like to highlight few hotels that are focusing on environment:

Santa Rita Hotel:
Preservation of biodiversity and natural resources.
Optimization of non-renewable energy, and usage of renewable energy sources.
Incorporation of new technologies.
Implementation of bio-remediation and development of biological corridors.
Development of an environmentally-friendly phytosanitary program. Improvement of soil condition.
Water usage reduction, conservation, and reuse.
Waste minimization policy: Reduction, recycling, and reuse of waste products.
*Ethical Company of the Year 2015:
Santa Rita Estates was selected from all companies in the global wines and spirits industry by the Drinks Business Green Awards, the sector’s top sustainability award.
Santa Rita also took initiative in Campaign to reforest the hills of Viña Santa Rita, 2017.

Imago Hotel & Spa: is aware about the environment and the impact it has on our planet misuse of its resources, such as water, energy and improper recycling of waste, so we are committed to reducing them through all our activities. Ensure compliance with environmental standards, safety and health, protection of biodiversity and cultural heritage, and other regulations applicable to their business.

The design and construction of the hotel was designed to create a more natural environment, the wood and stone is mostly dominated the heating is by radiators and radiant floor wich makes it more efficient and healthy; they have their own water well, for both to fulfill the tanks and for irrigation; low consumption and led lights, electromagnetics locks for opening doors and control for electricity in the rooms to reduce consumption. Thermo-panel crystals that reduce energy loss. The infrastructure and facilities were made by selecting eco-efficient technologies.
The fauna and flora of the area was respected. The hotel keeps native plants and have afforested our surroundings with poplars, pines and willows.
In every area of the hotel they make things to contribute with the conservation of the natural resources, the reduction of the consumption and the usage optimization.

In addition they develop:
Waste separation and recycling programme: separating plastics, plastics caps, papers, separating organic waste to be used in local compost and re-using blanks, papers and plastic containers.
Saving consumption progamme: using automatic irrigation, lights and products dosing systems.
Awareness Programme: teaching our employees and persuading our guests with brochures and verbal transmission.
With these actions the hotel is committed to reduce the environmental impact, to spread awareness and teach employees and other enterprises to be part of these proposal.
Moreover, the hotel is part of the Green Hotel Programme with Silver award.

Penguins:
In this tour you will have a chance to visit Maggelanic penguin colony. The penguins on Isla Magdalena are surprisingly fearless of humans, although as a way of protecting the species, visitors must stick to the designated walkway.
in 1982 Isla Magdalena and nearby Isla Marta were declared a national monument or Monumento Natural Los Pingüinos. This title aimed to recognize how these small yet noteworthy islands should be the site of conservation efforts to protect both the penguins and the other seabirds, such as cormorants and gulls, that are resident here.

People

We recognise that tourism can have big impact on local communities. As a tour operator specializing in tailor-made vacations we have the privilege of ensuring we can design our vacations with great care to support local communities. In this tour we have focused on picking accommodations that are actively supporting locals. Moreover we are encouraging our clients to interact with locals and support their businesses with purchases of their products and services. It is important to ensure that we are not just visiting places, but we are also trying to connect locals with tourists. For example we promote visits to local handicraft markets to purchase some handmade crafts. Also if there is any cultural show we are recommending it to our guests. Whenever possible we are also encouraging our clients to learn about local culture and to interact with locals, for example in this tour you will see Tango dance performances.

Hotels that we suggest for this tour helping local communities in many different ways:

Santa Rita:
We at Santa Rita Estates see sustainability as the confluence between being environmentally friendly, socially equitable, and economically viable. Sustainability is a wide-ranging, diverse, and dynamic value system, and in order to address its full breadth we have created a sustainability program that draws different stages and areas together into a coordinated process. The strategy begins by establishing a single definition, in line with the guidance published by the UN Brundtland Commission. Our process then set out to gauge the sustainability of our practices throughout the process of creating our wines, before moving on to a stage of planning how our management actions should be prioritized. The fourth step was to implement projects based on our core priorities, before finally analyzing and reporting on actions taken and progress achieved. Some actions towards sustainability: Achieving business development alongside a community that also prospers.

Identifying synergies between the company’s value chain and the needs of the community. Designing participative processes that work with the community, bringing mutual benefits.

Santa Rita Estates has received recognition for its sustainability management both within Chile and on the international stage, particularly in the field of social sustainability. This comes as the result of the company’s responsible approach to its workers and the community as a whole, upheld by Santa Rita since its beginnings, and the attention the company pays to impacts on the environment.
Santa Rita - Tourism Merit Award:
Sustainable Initiative Distinction 2015. The Chilean government’s National Tourism Service awarded this prize to the company for its contribution to sustainable and cultural tourism, protecting heritage with identity and supporting social cohesion.
- Corporate Sustainability Award: Social Category 2017
SOFOFA, a top Chilean union federation that brings together companies and unions in the industry sector, gave the company this award for its work promoting a wide range of initiatives to add value to land together with the community.

Imago hotel & Spa: promote the local development by supporting small local producers and buying to ecofriendly suppliers.

Visit to Yamana community in Chile. The visit will help to preserve the tribe and also through purchases of local products and handicraft they will generate income. Also if there are few opportunities that we recommend to our clients to see cultural show.