Accordingly, 3 travel agencies including Hue Vacation Tourism Company (Hue Vacation), RESTOUR Travel Company, and An Phu Travel Company committed to providing information on practices to reduce the use of disposable plastic products to partners and customers; Recommend that tourists bring personal items such as water bottles, bags, umbrellas, etc. to replace single-use plastic items, and support the provision of personal water bottles for tourists when they do not bring personal water bottles. Guests are responsible for returning the water bottle at the end of the trip.
In addition, the tour guide will coordinate and integrate messages about environmental protection, green living, reducing the use of single-use plastic items to introduce to tourists, paying attention to waste disposal and classification points. trash, refilling water, toilets, etc. throughout the journey.
Businesses also commit to building regulations on saving resources, classifying waste at source, updating operating procedures to reduce plastic waste, increasing information dissemination to employees and mobilizing participation. suppliers, through meetings, media events, community campaigns, updating leaflets, leaflets, etc. to raise awareness and practice reducing plastic use and classifying waste at source.
With the implementation of this plan, tourism service businesses not only aim to raise awareness and practice plastic waste reduction among managers and employees, but also send a strong message to customers and the community to call for cooperation in reducing plastic waste, contributing to maintaining the image of Hue as a clean ASEAN tourist city, aiming to build Hue as a plastic-reducing urban area in Central Vietnam.
Thua Thien-Hue is a famous cultural and heritage tourism destination of Vietnam, one of the pioneering provinces promoting the development of plastic-reducing tourism, and typically in 2024, Hue city was honored as a ASEAN clean tourism city. With the support of the Hue project – Urban plastic reduction in Central Vietnam/WWF-Vietnam, on October 26, 2023, the Department of Tourism of Thua Thien Hue province issued a Plan on “Reducing plastic waste of Thua Thien-Hue tourism industry in the period 2023-2025”. To implement this plan, many activities have been actively implemented by the Department of Tourism and Thua Thien-Hue Tourism Association, such as training to raise awareness on reducing the use of plastic for tour guides and hotels. , travel agencies; launches plastic-reducing tourist destination Thuy Bieu; Mobilize 7 pioneering hotels in Hue to sign commitments and practice plastic reduction; Calling on travel businesses to reduce plastic, classify waste at source…
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