Creative Tours strives to lessen the environmental impact of our business, while at the same time increase social and economic benefits to our community. 

To reduce our environmental impact, we focus on the following key strategies; 

• • Prioritising use of sustainable products and purchasing from environmentally responsible businesses and local businesses wherever possible. 
  • Partnerships with environmentally focused local businesses
  • Email confirmations with no paper ticket printed (noted on confirmation)
  • Fleet – vehicles are maintained and regularly serviced as per the manufacturer’s recommendations.
  • Removal of all single use plastic items – customers encouraged to bring their own water bottles instead of supplying single use. 

• Promoting Local and Seasonal Eating: By focusing on the journey of food from farm to fork, the tour highlights the benefits of eating locally and seasonally. This reduces the carbon footprint associated with long-distance food transportation and supports farming practices that are more in harmony with local ecosystems.
• Highlighting Sustainable Farming Practices: Farm visits that showcase sustainable agricultural practices, such as crop rotation, organic farming, or permaculture, educate participants on environmentally friendly farming. This not only helps protect the local environment but also demonstrates the feasibility and benefits of sustainable agriculture.

In the planning and preparation of tours we consider our business lessens the environmental impact by reducing the number of cars on the road, compared to if customers were to all drive themselves to visit the same venues.

Partnerships with environmentally focused businesses and organisations such as:

• Brouhaha Brewery – this is our lunch venue for several tours. Use of solar, sustainable packaging, and the restaurant sources its food from local suppliers within 100km and practices a nose to tail philosophy.
• Good Harvest Organic Farm – part of our Farm to Fork Tour – is an organic farm that practices sustainable farming and imparts this message to our customers on tour.
• We ensure our fleet of vehicles is well-maintained and regularly serviced.
• In the planning and preparation of our tours, we consider that our business lessens the environmental impact by reducing the number of cars on the road, compared to if customers were to all drive themselves to visit the same venues.

To reduce the environmental impact of our office:

• Reduce vehicle use outside of tours by ensuring offsite meetings are kept to a minimum, instead offering phone/video call options.
• Reduce printing – the office is working towards a paper free environment and printing has been reduced significantly.
• Paperless billing
• Plastic free – the business supports local initiatives around a plastic free community. We don’t supply or encourage the use of plastic bags, plastic straws or disposable coffee cups.

Looking to book a tour?

Take a look at our range of private tour options or give our friendly team a call so we can create a custom tour designed just for your group.