Responsible Tourism Policy within Guies de Catalunya
We have been working in tourism for more than 25 years, and what has always been evident for us has now become hthe indispensable conditions to tunrn our trade into a responsible and sustainable activity.
That is why we are very proud to have renewed the Compromís Barcelona – Biosphere 2024 certification.
We are learning a lot in this journey, and we are just realizing that, just as we said, we have been following the right goals for a long time.
We love our territory
Because we grew up here, we love our land. It is the land we got from our ancestors, and the land we hope to give to future generations. The same land that we show tirelessly, one and one thousand times.
We respect the environment
Because we want visitors to know about it without making its residents uncomfortable in their own home. Barcelona and Catalonia are our home. This is the reason why we always work with small groups; and this is why we use individual whispers. This small changes allow us to do our job without becoming a nuisance, and with the smallest impact possible on acoustic pollution.
We are professionals
This our trade, not our hobby. We are constantly paraking in new training and formations: because we respect our clients, and we want them to access a professional services of a higt quality. Our explanations are truthful, rigorous, and entertained. History is interesting enough to keep everyone’s attention, with no need to made-up stories or dad jokes.
We promote a dignified job, and we pay our taxes
Just like everyone else, we work to make a living. We want to achieve that like everyone else: with a worthy salary, because that is also a part of social responsability. We are a small, self-employed business, of the kind where one person helps you get a recommendation on the phone, the same person leads you during the tour, and the same person sends you the invoice while asking if everything was to your linking. Our fiscal adress is whithin our country, the same where we make our contributions and we pay our taxes.
We collaborate with local commerce
We work with providers and collaborators that are just like us, and whom we respect as people and as professionals. We have known them for a long time, and we know they love their job as much as we love ours. They are family businesses oriented towards craftsmanship and transportation, as well as restaurants and wineries, and even other self-employed guides like ourselves. We trust them completely because we have learned everything we know side by side with them. We believe that this union of these small businesses is the one that will achieve great changes.
