Walkers Tours
Sustainability Certification

Travelife is the leading international sustainability certification for the travel sector. More than 40 national travel associations are promoting the scheme to their members, including 20 European Travel associations and The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). Since 2012, more than 1,500 tour operators have been trained in CSR and more than 500 tour operators have received a Travelife award. We have complied with more than 100 criteria, related to an operators’ office management, product range, international business partners and customer information. The Travelife standard is covering the ISO 26000 Corporate Social Responsibility themes, including environment, biodiversity, human rights and labour relations; and is formally Recognised as in full compliance with the UN supported Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria.

The only Destination Management Company in Sri Lanka to have a CarbonNeutral® certified fleet of vehicles, awarded by Climate Impact Partners of the UK (Climateimpact.com) – a leading carbon offset solutions provider, through their regional partner- Climate and Conservation Consortium (http://climateconserve.com/) This fleet which numbers almost 600 vehicles range from large coaches to luxury cars, all of which have their carbon emissions set aside. This global certification reinforces our commitment to accurately measure, monitor, and continuously work towards mitigating the running-emissions of our entire vehicle fleet. We have also “gone the extra mile” to offset our emissions to ‘net zero’ by investing in local and international renewable energy projects by purchasing registered Carbon Credits to match our fleet footprint each year.

Although sustainability had already played an important role in our company before, in 2014 we decided to make an official commitment to our sustainability goals by getting TourCert Qualified. The independent certification organisation TourCert advises and accompanies tourism businesses and destinations on their road towards sustainable and successful management. In order to be part of the community and get the qualification we assessed our current sustainability standing and committed to an improvement program that is updated annually and helps us to continually develop our company in a way that is compatible with all pillars of sustainability. As a consequence, we have established the following measures within our company/ we have carried out the following projects:

We are committed to deliver a superior experience for our global clients while striving to protect and preserve the environment around us through our Integrated Quality and Environment Management Systems compliant with ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015 (Environmental Managament) International Standards. compliance with all national and appropriate international laws, regulations and tour operator guidelines, firm Commitment to reduce the Carbon Foot Print of the company, unwavering focus on customers and ever-increasing customer Orientation, achieving continual improvement through corrective and preventive action, motivated and competent Human Resource team, dedication to achieve objectives, supplier partnering and acquiring and maintaining superior IT technologies.