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In the summer of 2008, we signed up voluntarily towards an effort at designing a system for custom Responsible Tourism Audits. This was spearheaded by Jenefer Bobbin and Prof. Harold Goodwin, International Center for Responsible Tourism, UK. In 2008, Jenefer spent almost five months with socialtours, studying our RT policy, designing indicators and a system for the collection of data which would enable us to audit ourselves, and then get external mediators to check them.
We believe it is imperative that this is done, so that we find out where we are, and find ways and means as how to improve ourselves on the responsibility front, on a continual basis.
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December 23, 2009
 Finally, the RT Audit report for 2009 is done! We have a record of the successes of the initiatives we have been working so far in terms of responsibility. This excercise has also helped us bring out some of the dirty laundry and helped us learn where we can make improvements.
Feel free to download a copy of this report, have a read, make comments / suggestions. We are welcome to feedback and / or criticism. There is one thing we know. This will go a long way in us living up to one of our important company values - continued excellence.
It has been exhausting, the biggest learning being that even a small, young organisation, committed to responsibility, has a difficult time making the nescessary adjustments, required for systems to be put in place for the collection of data to cover indicators of social responsibility. Reaching here, of course, is tremendously fulfilling though!
We are committed to do this excercise on a regular basis, measuring how we fare based on standards that we set for ourselves!
Download a copy of the report here (1.6mb)
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