Everyone has a responsibility to be the best traveller they can be, and by acting collectively we all win. We would like to give you an insight into how we work with sustainability, and how we aim to take responsibility to create a more sustainable travel industry.
It’s up to us to protect the destinations we care about. That’s why we advocate for sustainable tourism by equipping our travellers with responsible choices.
Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the world economy, and one of the fastest-growing. We understand this development puts pressure on the destinations and believe that responsible travel is about demonstrating respect for the people, culture, and environment you’re visiting. Below you can read more about how we work to achieve a more sustainable tourism industry.
✔️ Local and responsible partners
✔️ Year-round tourism
✔️ Public transportation
✔️ Digital transformation
✔️ 11 tips for travelling more sustainably
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We support local guides, independent accommodation, and responsible partners who share our principle of sustainable development. We work in partnerships across the public and private sectors to provide strong returns for our partners and grow the value of tourism to Europe. Quality and sustainability are important to us in our choice of partners, and by buying services from smaller, local suppliers we want to contribute to reducing monopoly situations.
Year-round tourism reduces overtourism and contributes to profitability and sustainable development at the destination. Travelling in the low season puts less pressure on local communities, and that’s why we have a strong focus on travel in autumn, winter, and spring too. Europe is just as spectacular!
By choosing to travel in other months than peak season, you are providing accommodations, activity providers, attractions, and restaurants with opportunities for year-round employment, which also contributes to professionalism in travel.
By offering tours including public transport such as train, bus, and boats to individual travellers from all over the world, Authentic Europe focuses on a more sustainable way of travelling. Not only does travelling by public transport reduce your carbon footprint, but you can also more easily stop for snacks or a cup of coffee when walking to the station or bus stop. This means small businesses also benefit too.
With an increasing digitalisation demand from customers, we are striving to become more digital and paperless. We are working on shifting our existing paper travel documents into digital documents.
How do you travel responsibly when travelling in another country? Becoming a responsible traveller is actually quite easy. Find out how you can make responsible travel choices and have a positive impact on your next tour to Europe.
Read our travelling tips
With a conscientious and sustainable focus, we aspire to be Europe's most reliable and innovative travel provider. We will achieve this by simultaneously working on the three P principles:
People. To ensure that our operations benefit the company's employees as well as the community in which it conducts business.
Planet. To select and create travel experiences that do not have any negative impact on our ecosystem.
Profit. To create employment, generating innovation, paying taxes, wealth creation, and support local travel enterprises by developing a stable year-round revenue stream.
With a unique position between customers and partners, we are aware of our responsibility to advocate for sustainable development and support experiences that benefit the destinations.
We have taken our responsibility towards sustainability seriously and have been working towards obtaining the Travelife certification. Since 2021, we have been actively participating in Travelife's three-stage sustainability certification program.
We are pleased to announce that as of September 2022, we have successfully achieved stage two and have been recognized as a Certified Travelife Partner Tour Operator🌿. This significant milestone marks our progress towards becoming a fully certified sustainable organization.
We have formed a sustainability team to become a more sustainable office. Upon leaving the office we always turn off lights, computers, printers, and other electronic devices. A year of home office has proven it is possible to work, more or less, paperless, and we have reduced the amount of printing significantly.
We have set up recycling bins for everything from aluminium cans and plastic bottles to paper products and compost, and we have exchanged the paper coffee filters for reusable coffee filters.
We are embracing renewable energy and have upgraded our energy tariff to include energy from renewable sources. We have also brought in plants to improve the indoor air quality and to bring some nature into the office environment.
We support the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), a non-profit environmental organisation, working to spread knowledge, chart environmental threats, propose solutions and influence politicians and authorities, both nationally and internationally.
Read more about their work
Our policy calls to action to guide our sustainable development work and gives details as to what we intend to achieve.
Read our Sustainability Policy
Download our 2023 Annual Sustainability Report
