Selective Asia
East Sussex, United Kingdom
May 2022
Travel agency & related
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Bhutan,
Cambodia,
China,
Hong Kong S.A.R.,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Laos,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Nepal,
Philippines,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Sri Lanka,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
United Kingdom,
Vietnam
Selective Asia is a UK based, multi-award winning tour operator creating bespoke holidays and adventures for the inquisitive traveller. Founded in 2006, they work with local businesses and individuals throughout Asia to craft meaningful travel experiences, focusing on the ‘how and why’ every bit as much as the ‘where and when’. Known for their culturally-oriented focus, and integral interaction with local communities, social sustainability is a responsibility that Selective Asia takes seriously. They are striving to become a leading example of how tourism can provide grassroots income, helping to spread the spend at a local level. In the search for greater transparency, the UK based team has designed a structure that ensures everyone within the company can directly influence its direction, policies and financial decisions. Selective Asia has forged strong partnerships with conservation projects to ensure their interactions with the environment and wildlife have a positive impact, and they have a clear route map to mitigating and reducing their carbon footprint.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.9
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 20.9
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 37.3
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 19.4
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 7.0
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 4.7
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.