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Tibet Universal Tours and Travel puts great importance on the promotion of responsible and sustainable tourism practices implementing by hand in hand with our day to day base tour service performances. We always strive to ensure that our tour service delivery will have a minimum level of negative social, economic, environmental and culture impacts. Following outlined points are some of our representative measures undertaking in our routine job performances which thought to be essential for a sustainable touristic development in Tibet.
Whenever and wherever possible, we extend charitable support to disadvantaged groups in remote Tibetan villages. For instance, utilizing certain percentage of our annual company income we purchase and distribute warm winter clothes for children in rural Tibetan primary schools to keep warm and happy, to avoid preventable communicable disease like cold and diarrhea. Cold and diarrhea, missing class due to sicknesses is quite high prevalence among school children during winter time in Tibet.
We believe that every person deserves access to quality healthcare. To this end, we extend our help on medical expenses to those serious patients who are from remote and rural Tibetan villages and cannot afford to pay their medical treatment when the treatment costs goes beyond the local medical insurance coverage.
In support of contributing to the local economy and to give the local population a central role in the touristic economic development of their own territory. We always strive to ensure that the economic benefits of tourism should go for local communities and poverty alleviation by generating financial benefits for both local people and private industries. For instance, we always use locally owned ground transportation and accommodation (i.e. hotels, lodges, and guesthouses). We recommend local eateries, restaurants, and stores to our guests.
In addition, we are an indigenous local Tibetan travel agency based in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. 100% of our travel company employees are staffed and escorted by professional local Tibetans including local tour guides and drivers. This has created employment and job security opportunities for many educated and inspired Tibetans.
Tibetan Buddhist reality is profoundly ecological, and Buddhism itself is an ecological religion. It powerfully expresses human identification with nature. Buddhists believe that all things, including humans, exist by their interrelationship with all other parts of nature. To think of one’s self as isolated from the rest of nature is be unrealistic.
Giving the facts that Tibetans love and respect for life and the natural world. To minimize the environmental impact created by tourists, we maintain the size of tour groups to have minimal impact on flora and fauna in an area. The necessary carbon emissions that we generate by our footprints of travel to the tour destinations cannot be overlooked, and as a result, we regularly actively participate in carbon reduction or offset activities such as tree planting. Our tour guides, drivers, and logistic staff are all advised to dispose of all rubbish generated by themselves responsibly and recycle wherever feasible.
Make best use of the winter tourist low season, we deliver training workshops on environmental protection and preservation and first aid training for all our company management staff, tour guides and drivers in order to increase their knowledge and understanding about the importance of environmental protection and ecotourism.