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Responsible Tourism

Caring. Understanding. Appreciating. Committed.

HF Holidays has always been committed to acting responsibly as a tour operator and in its 97th year of operation as a membership organisation; community is at the heart of everything that we do. smiling children from creche child charity

Bringing people together through memorable holidays in the UK and around the world, is what we do. We recognise that action is needed to protect and preserve the destinations we visit. We want to lead the way in developing holidays that are truly sustainable.

HF Holidays currently work with and donate to a number of organisations including The Air Ambulance, Countryside Management Association, John Muir Trust, The National Trust, Mountain Rescue Teams and supports the Fairtrade Foundation and BTCV.

As a responsible traveller you will already be aware of the many companies offering a carbon offsetting service for the flights that you take and we recognise that you can choose to offset without input from HF Holidays. As an organisation we have decided to look at all the ways we can reduce our carbon emissions as a business and also ways to make it easier for you to travel to your chosen holidays using alternative methods of transport to flights where this is possible.

In October 2008 we established a partnership with the ECA Group [Energy Cost Advisors Group] to monitor and investigate the energy used in our 17 Country Houses.

At the end of 2009 ECA reported that our Country Houses reduced emissions in electricity by 20% and gas by 2%. This shows incredible steps towards reducing HF Holidays carbon footprint, which we are very proud of.

We will continue to monitor our emissions for the duration of 2010 and make steps to improve our carbon footprint.

We are currently considering the opportunity to use solar PV tiles on one of our Country Houses to generate electricity.

More information about PV

Furthermore, at the same Country House, we are also considering greywater recycling to reduce water consumption by as much as 20%.

More information about greywater recycling