Since its founding in 1997, Handspan Travel has been a local pioneer dedicated to creating innovative and sustainable travel experiences across Vietnam and the wider Indochina region. We recognize our responsibility to promote sustainability in all aspects of our work, from implementing responsible practices and reducing negative social and environmental impacts to inspiring our clients and partners to do the same.

Our Sustainability Policy is structured around 10 key themes, each outlining guiding principles and concrete actions to ensure our commitment is consistently put into practice.

1. Sustainability management & Legal compliance

At Handspan Travel, we are dedicated to integrating sustainability into every aspect of our operations. To achieve this, we commit to the following actions:

• Appointing a dedicated staff member responsible for coordinating all sustainability initiatives.
• Maintaining a clear Sustainability Mission Statement, communicated to our customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Developing and maintaining an accessible, written Sustainability Policy that aims to reduce negative social, cultural, economic, and environmental impacts, while also addressing employee health and safety.
• Conducting baseline assessments of our company’s sustainable performance to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
• Implementing a Sustainability Action Plan with defined targets, actions, measures, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Establishing sustainability guidelines and an assessment system to evaluate the performance of key suppliers and partners.
• Developing documented procedures to monitor and evaluate the implementation of our sustainability policy, objectives, and targets.
• Ensuring transparency by publicly reporting and communicating our sustainability efforts and progress.
• Promoting internal awareness so that all staff fully understand, support, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our Sustainability Policy.
• Actively joins sustainable forums and projects that aim for sustainable purposes.

We are fully committed to complying with all national legislation, regulations, and codes of practice related to sustainable tourism.