Responsible Travel
This section covers the overall aims of our policy and the ethos/mission statement of the company.
Economic Responsibility
⦁ All of our sightseeing tours are customized and operated by local guides. Also, we use local drivers, and all arrangements for tours are made by our local staff.
⦁ We are interested in training our local staff by giving them communication skills, leadership courses, emotional intelligence courses, and language courses in addition to tourism courses.
⦁ We use locally-owned restaurants and hotels.
⦁. We encourage our clients to buy handmade artifacts from local producers, like Papyrus, Perfumes, carpets, and pharaonic gold or silver souvenirs.
⦁ Tours include visits to local markets like Khan El Khalili Bazaar in Cairo and the Souks in Luxor and Aswan.
Environmental Responsibility:
⦁ All places visited are to be left as we found them. No piece of paper is to be left behind.
⦁ All our Local guides and tour operators are not allowed to smoke during work.
⦁ All our modern air-conditioned vehicles are provided with baskets for rubbish in addition to environmentally friendly exhaust systems.
⦁ We support eco-tourism and do our best to deal with ecologically friendly hotels and resorts in Bahariya Oasis, Dahab, and Marsa Alam.
⦁ All our department managers meet weekly to ensure that all operations have minimal impact on the environment
⦁ We encourage all of our tour drivers to reduce noise pollution by obligating the drivers not to use their car horns and also we always encourage our staff to pick up trash at tourist sights
⦁ Our diving guides and tour guides emphasize the preservation of Egypt’s coral reef, emphasizing the damage that touching or removing coral does to the ecosystem of the Red Sea.
⦁ Around Egypt Tours is always open to suggestions from clients about improving our services in terms of environmental impact.
Social Responsibility:
. Around Egypt Tours staff will provide travelers with accurate information before their arrival about the customs, traditions, and suitable clothes for each destination.
. Around Egypt Tours specializes in providing tours for handicapped travelers, and we do our best to make everything accessible for them.
. We make donations to several charitable foundations for each booking reserved.
