The importance attached to social and ecological considerations within the world’s value-adding chains has risen steadily in the last few years. Our stakeholders today expect our products not only to offer good value for money but also to fulfil demanding criteria in quality and sustainability terms. We are also aware that, as a globally-active tour operator which works at the interface between the customer and the service provider, Kuoni has a particularly crucial role.
In response to the above, Kuoni conducts various projects and initiatives and has adopted a new auditing system that are all designed to exert a positive influence on the way our suppliers (and our hotel partners in particular) go about their work. We strive to maintain long-term partnerships here, and actively help our hotels to be fair in their working conditions, easy on the environment and as sparing as possible in their use of natural resources.
Ethical Requirements
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The Travelife System
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NEW: A Travelife auditor writes...
The Travelife organisation insists on the fulfilment of the strictest of criteria before it bestows its coveted seal of approval on sustainable hotels. A Travelife audit looks at some 100 aspects of a hotel’s environmental care and concern, its employees’ working terms and conditions and its relations with the local population. Pernilla Enkler of Swedish-based Apollo is one of the Kuoni Group’s 15 Travelife auditors. And she has written her account of how a Travelife audit is conducted.
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