We support sustainable tourism and do our best to ensure that your children and their children are able to enjoy a holiday as beautiful as the ones we offer you today. We recognise that demonstrating responsible business practices towards the environment and the communities within which we operate is key to our achievement of this long term goal.
The importance of sustainability in tourism has never been greater. In the words of Sir Richard Branson:
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment --- Sir Richard Branson (Sept 2006)
To prove we aren't all talk, ALL profits and dividends that Virgin Group receives from Virgin Holidays, Atlantic and Trains (estimated to be $3bn over the next 10 years) will be ploughed into research and investment to develop sustainable sources of energy.
In addition to this groundbreaking initiative, Richard has also offered $25m to anyone who can find an effective solution to climate change! But, if that tinkering you've been doing in your shed hasn't quite come up with the answer yet, at least you know that in choosing Virgin Holidays for your getaway you are helping us to try and make a real difference.
We continually strive to make our business more sustainable. This includes auditing and improving our supply chains for sustainability performance, working with responsible tourism charities such as The Travel Foundation www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk and Tourism Concern www.tourismconcern.org.uk who help care for the places we all love to visit and ensuring that our head office operations are as green as possible.
Our Responsible Business Policy
Responsible Business is about being accountable to all stakeholders touched by our business operations, maximising the benefits we bring and minimising negative impacts. Besides being a successful company contributing to the economy and providing many jobs, we think it�s important that we make a positive contribution to society and help make peoples lives better.
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Environment
Maintaining the quality of the world's environments is crucial to our continued long term success in being able to offer you high quality holidays in some of the most beautiful and fascinating places on earth.
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Community
Virgin Holidays aims to have a positive impact on the communities in the destinations we operate in and we like to give something back where we can.
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People
We think the people that work for us are our most valuable asset. We put a lot of time and effort into looking after our staff and strive to be the employer of choice in the tourism industry.
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