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Dear Friends and Colleagues!

Until now, we studied quite a few international guidelines etc, which enabled us to pick up the most important ones for our country.

We put them together in the Principles and guidelines, which you find below.

As we are always keen on making our service better, learning about opinions of other people and especially of our clients, we are always glad to hear your comments, suggestions and questions!

The Principles:

• Leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photographs.
  This well-known phrase can be taken as the Amen of Ecotourism, and we give our best to      fulfill it.
• Those who profit from our tours are not the big companies and foreign chains, but local inhabitants, locally owned small- and medium sized companies, and social development programs.

The Guidelines:

Guidelines Accommodation:

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  No accommodations with more than 200 beds.
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  Preferred are always accommodation in families and small locally-owned guest houses.
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  Preferred are always accommodation facilities that work  in an environmentally friendly way (minimisation of electricity and water consumption, etc)

Guidelines Guides:

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  Preferred are guides that speak the native language of the clients
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  For international groups with different native languages usually an English-speaking guide is used
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  Preferred are always specialists for the region visited
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  Guides are locals
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  Guides all know first aid
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  For special tours we have specialised guides (horse-back riding, mountain-biking, fauna & flora, etc)

Guidelines site disturbance and conduct in natural environment:

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  Preferred are sites that have been previously disturbed in order to save places completely untouched
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  Groups are not bigger than 10 clients, for tours involving wildlife (eg photo-hunting tours) max. group size is 5 clients
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  Wildlife is neither touched nor feeded
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  Everything taken on the tour is taken back, nothing is left on the way
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  If defined tracks are absent, the group spreads out so that no new path is made by the group; wet or soft ground is if possible not used; if possible walking through vegetation is avoided
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  Official campsites are used whenever possible
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  For wild camping: keep distance to water bodies (about 30m)
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  Campsite fires are set in existing fireplaces if possible and are completely extinguished after use
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  Vehicles are only used on designed roads and tracks

Guidelines social influence:

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  Employment of local staff
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  Puchase of local products
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  Purchase of local services
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  Cooperation with projects for social development and rise of local life standards