Audley Travel
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
May 2023
Travel agency & related
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Argentina,
Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,
Belize,
Bhutan,
Bolivia,
Botswana,
Brazil,
Cambodia,
Canada,
Chile,
Colombia,
Cook Islands,
Costa Rica,
Croatia (Hrvatska),
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Ecuador,
Egypt,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hungary,
Iceland,
India,
Indonesia,
Ireland,
Israel,
Italy,
Japan,
Jordan,
Kenya,
Laos,
Luxembourg,
Madagascar,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Mauritius,
Mexico,
Morocco,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Nepal,
Netherlands The,
New Zealand,
Norway,
Oman,
Panama,
Peru,
Portugal,
Rwanda,
Seychelles,
South Africa,
South Korea,
Spain,
Sri Lanka,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Tanzania,
Thailand,
Turkey,
Uganda,
United Kingdom,
United States,
Uruguay,
Vietnam,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
Having a positive impact on the places and communities we visit has always been at the heart of what we do at Audley. Our style of tailormade travel — authentic, thoughtful, and focused on building meaningful connections to the places you visit — is inherently respectful of the destinations we love. This isn’t new for us — we’ve been collaborating with local communities and outside experts for over 25 years, across more than 85 destinations. For us, responsible travel starts long before you pack your case. We choose locally owned hotels, experiences that support community development, and check the welfare of animal-related activities. Not only do we feel this gives the best travel experience, but it also benefits local communities. We launched our ESG (Environmental Social Governance) framework in 2021, which identifies five key areas that have underlying goals and annual targets for us to focus on. The goals are either aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals or with our own internal priorities. We’ve learned that collaboration and sharing best practices is important in building upon our efforts and those of others in the industry, and we look forward to playing a leading role in a long-term journey of positive change as part of the B Corp community.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.5
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 20.5
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 27.4
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 17.6
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 12.3
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 4.1
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.