Responsible Travel
There is no job as noble as being a traveler. When you travel to a country or a destination, jobs are created directly and immediately for the airline companies, for the travel agents and tour operators, for the train companies, for the transport companies, for the cruise companies, for the boat companies, for hotels, for restaurants, for universities, colleges, and vocational schools, for local handicrafts, for the local souvenir businesses, for the involved local communities...When you travel, it seems the whole local economy may benefit immediately and the money you spend may be spread most among the local communities...Mass tourism may destroy the local natural environment, puts a burden on the local traditional culture as local people and businesses try to satisfy the visitors and abandon their traditions ...
Today you travel to Vietnam, at the same time some others have tours to Cambodia and some others take trips to Laos...If you travel responsibly and others do it responsibly, then the natural environment remains unchanged or improved, the local culture remains unchanged or even better preserved, the local people may learn good habits from you. Responsible travel brings more value to your trips, makes your holidays more authentic and enjoyable. With responsible travel, the reasons for which a destination attracts people to travel to remain unchanged, or become more of a reason...Responsible travel pays everyone and benefits everyone!
How to travel responsibly?
1/Choosing the eco-friendly airlines and transport companies;
2/Staying at eco-friendly hotels and dining at eco-friendly restaurants;
3/Choosing the tour operators & travel agents who understand, love and respect the local culture; who have professional staff that are well-trained in eco-tourism; who share the income from your travel most with different local communities; who take part in protecting the environment and traditional culture, and giving back to local communities;
4/Choosing travel itineraries of responsible travel:
a/Off-the-beaten-track itineraries: Travel to destinations and take the paths that are not visited by the crowd. This helps to put less burden on the environment and local culture of the touristy places, while it helps to improve the income of many local communities at the not-so touristy sites and helps to preserve the local environment and culture. Off-the-beaten-track travel itineraries help you with a more authentic experience.
b/Eco and nature tours: Eco and nature tours bring you to destinations of eco-tourism, nature reserves or national parks. These tours give you a time of understanding nature and get relaxed amid the wild. In the mean time, these tours help local communities and local authorities more income so that they can protect the natural landscapes and wild life in the communities.
c/Trekking and biking adventures: Traveling by means of trekking and biking doesn't require fuels and generates no exhaust elements, hence has no harmful effects to the natural environment. Trekking and biking adventures make your travel accessible to many far-flung destinations, which means more communities are benefiting from your travel. Taking these adventures, you'll be rewarded immensely with the chaste natural beauty and the untouched local culture, your experience will be a more authentic one.
5/Travel in family or take part in small group journeys: Travel in family and in small groups (fewer than 12-15 persons/group) makes your travel have minimized impact to the environment and local culture.
Peace of Mind
A fully-licensed tour operator/travel agent in Vietnam
Paradissa Co. Ltd. is a fully registered and licensed by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (http://vietnamtourism.gov.vn/) and Ha Noi Tourism Administration (http://www.hanoitourism.gov.vn) oversees our daily business and activities.
Company license number: 0102004690
Tour operator license number: 620
If there should be any minor thing that you are not satisfied with our service , or Paradissa should fail to keep our commitments, then your feedback (not necessarily complaint) would make our business suspended until we are cleared.
Bonding bank account
As a fully licensed tour operator, we have got a bonding account (which is frozen during the life time of our company) with the amount enough to cover all our legal responsibilities in case of insolvency.
Bonding bank account details
Vietcombank - Operation Center
31-33 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Bonding account name: Paradissa Co. Ltd.
Bonding account number: 0010000249960
A travel agent/tour operator with NO “LOCAL PAYMENTS ”
All the monies paid by the clients via our bank accounts are monitored. Paradissa pay our full responsibility as a licensed business and absolutely follow the law here. We are not similar to travel agents or tour operators who have so-called "local payments" which you will easily find on the Internet, in fact they play tax evasion. Tax evasion is probably not a problem for the travelers, it's just that if something happened, then the travelers with "local payments" would be on the danger of loosing everything.
International air tickets and repatriation
International air tickets here means the return air tickets for the flights between your home (or residence) country and the countries where the services are rendered by Paradissa Co. Ltd. ( Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Paradissa Co. Ltd. don't include international air tickets for 2 reasons:
1/It's always (without exception) much cheaper to book air tickets from the city of departure, and Paradissa Co. Ltd. may not have branches/affiliates in your home country (or your country of residence)
2/Since your international air tickets are not provided by Paradissa Co. Ltd., in the unlikely events of insolvency, you would still be able to come back home without any extra hassles and costs. It is always wise to diversify risks.
Travel insurance
Paradissa Co. Ltd. does not include travel insurance into the tour costs for the reason that there is lack of good laws governing insurance and lack of good travel insurance providers in the countries where our services are carried out.
MICE Travel
MICE stands for Meeting, Incentive and exhibitions/events. Paradissa Travel is a professional organizer of services for MICE travel in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.
