Active Holidays
Walking holidays, cycling holidays, and other types of active travel are great for both body and mind.
Physical activity combined with the many experiences in nature provides energy for the body and creates calm in the nervous system.
But beyond being a sustainable type of holiday for the traveler’s own inner balance, it can also be sustainable for the local community in the country you are visiting.
Active holidays often make it possible to stay away from mass tourism, and this form of travel promotes local cooperation with family-run accommodations and restaurants in less populated natural areas.
In addition, hiking and cycling are sustainable ways of moving through the surroundings—especially when luggage transfer from hotel to hotel is systemized and optimized.
Environmental Sustainability
Travelling by Train
To make it easier to get an overview of your options if you would like to travel to your destination by train, we have gathered useful information about what you should know when taking the train for a holiday in Europe.
In addition, for all trips where we consider travelling by train to be a realistic option, we have included a section about train travel. You will find these descriptions under each individual trip in the section “How to Get There.”
Any additional tips and tricks for using public transport are also mentioned in this section.
We Plant a Tree
When you book a trip, we plant a tree in Kenya.
Bering Travel collaborates with Growing Trees Network, which since 2020 has planted trees in Kenya in partnership with Seniorer uden Grænser (SuG). The trees are planted with poor local farmers in the area around Mount Kenya, as well as at schools where the fruits from the trees supplement the students’ diets and are also used as part of their education.
The trees are planted using the shamba method, where forest planting is combined with agricultural crops. This ensures that the soil is covered with vegetation throughout the year, preventing the leaching of nutrients and reducing erosion.
The donation for tree planting comes from Bering Travel’s earnings and is not added to the price of the trip.
This initiative is not intended as a climate offset for travelling.
You can read more about Growing Trees Network and see how many trees Bering Travel has helped plant via the link below.
Social and Economic Sustainability
The principles of sustainable tourism play an important role when we select new partners and develop cooperation with our existing partners.
We always work with local suppliers and partners and aim to build long-term relationships where collaboration allows us to strengthen local engagement.
In this way, we can also help increase awareness of sustainable tourism among our local partners where the topic is not yet high on the agenda.
We encourage our guests to travel with respect for nature and local cultures:
- Show respect and be friendly and considerate.
- Always ask for permission when photographing people and respect a “no.”
- Turn off the lights in your hotel room when you leave and try to save water. We tend to take longer showers on holiday than we do at home.
- Never leave your waste in nature. If there are no bins, bring your waste back to the hotel.
- When on a walking holiday, always stay on the marked trails. This protects the plant life around the paths and increases your own safety.
- Leave what you find. The plant and animal life on land and beneath the surface of the sea may be beautiful, but it should remain where it belongs.
"We look forward to making your holiday dreams come true"
