Inside Travel Group Limited
City of Bristol, United Kingdom
May 2023
Travel agency & related
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
Australia,
Japan,
United Kingdom,
United States
We started off in travel with a simple wish to share the places and experiences we loved when we lived in Japan with as many people as possible. We wanted to help people ‘get beneath the surface’ just as we felt we had been lucky enough to do. Growing from a spare-bedroom operation into Inside Travel Group, comprising specialist brands InsideJapan Tours and InsideAsia Tours, our mission hasn’t changed. We collaborate with our customers and trade partners to build unforgettable Cultural Adventures - trips that pair classic sightseeing with experiences of local life and culture. We believe that travel is a force for good in the world, bringing people together, encouraging greater understanding and creating good jobs. We also acknowledge that travel has negative impacts, often for the very places and people we encourage travellers to visit. That’s why we’re working to maximise the good that travel does and encourage longer, deeper and more meaningful trips that work in harmony with our destinations. We would love for you to book a tailormade trip with us or join one of our small group tours and be a part of the story.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 13.4
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 13.4
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 23.3
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 12.2
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 29.1
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 2.0
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.