HQ Travel Group
Taranaki Region, New Zealand
October 2015
Travel agency & related
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Argentina,
Australia,
Belize,
Brazil,
Cambodia,
China,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
Fiji Islands,
Ghana,
Greece,
Guatemala,
India,
Indonesia,
Italy,
Jamaica,
Jordan,
Kenya,
Laos,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mexico,
Morocco,
Namibia,
Nepal,
New Zealand,
Peru,
Philippines,
Portugal,
Puerto Rico,
Romania,
South Africa,
Spain,
Sri Lanka,
Tanzania,
Thailand,
United States,
Vietnam,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
HQ Travel Group is one of the world's leading providers of impact, adventure, and educational travel. It is home to two market-leading brands that facilitate life-transforming travel experiences in over 60 countries to customers living in more than 100 nations worldwide. International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) is the world's largest volunteer travel specialist. Recognized as the highest-rated volunteer abroad provider for the last six consecutive years, it has empowered over 143,000 volunteers to make a meaningful impact in local communities abroad. With over 320 projects in 48 countries, IVHQ offers the world's most extensive range of volunteer abroad programs. Our fully vetted, all-inclusive experiences ensure our volunteers can make a difference safely and confidently, wherever they choose to go. Intern Abroad HQ was named the world's #1 rated intern abroad provider in each of the last three years. It empowers students and young professionals to pursue their dream careers through impactful international work experiences. With 300 internship programs across 26 countries, we offer both in-country and remote applied learning opportunities that enrich expertise, enhance cultural understanding, and accelerate professional growth.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 19.0
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 19.0
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 29.6
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 18.0
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 13.9
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 12.9
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.
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.