ECOTURIST Commitment
We work for responsible tourism
Our planet needs us
To preserve and perpetuate the uniqueness of La Gomera we aspire to keep it free of any influence other than that of the water resting on the laurel forest, of the seas of clouds molding the relief, of the botanical and faunistic caprices of our endemic species". Excerpt from the Manifesto of the companies adhering to the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism of La Gomera.
Our commitment
The Garajonay National Park obtained its first accreditation to the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in 2008 (Phase I) and three years later the tourism companies of La Gomera were accredited through Phase II. Thus supporting the maintenance of the protected natural area and the rural world through tourism.
Currently, more than 40 committed companies work hand in hand with the National Park to, as the Manifesto states, "conserve and perpetuate the uniqueness of La Gomera".
The Garajonay ecosystem has been evolving for several million years, it is impossible to dissociate it from the island, its physical reality is based on its summits, and its past, present and future is marked by the society of La Gomera.
Manifesto of the companies of La Gomera
As a single voice, the group of companies of La Gomera adhered to the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism, we want to express our commitment to the sustainability of our island to offer it to the visitor without adulterations that could theatricalize it, without make-up that could confuse it, free of any addition that is not its own naturalness. To present it as it is, as it has been, as we would like it to continue to be in the future, to deliver it with identical purity to the one we have inherited.
To hand it over not only to our descendants but also to the visitors of that time and particularly to those of today. Visitors, not tourists, who by virtue of our commitment to sustainability, should perceive the island as we natives perceive it on a daily basis, to transit it in the same way that we Gomeros transit it, interacting with its elements as we do on a daily basis. In short, we want the visitor to mimic the island and the islanders as if he were one more, one of us.
Those of us who are professionally dedicated to welcoming visitors do not seek to make the island a tourist stage on which to artificially display the range of its excellence, but rather to offer La Gomera as the living entity that it is, unaltered and unalterable except for the action of the elements and the daily activity of those of us who live there.
To preserve and perpetuate the uniqueness of La Gomera we aspire to keep it free of any influence other than that of the water resting on the laurel forest, of the seas of clouds molding the relief, of the botanical and faunistic caprices of our endemic species.
This joint conservationist spirit arises from the affection, also endemic, that we feel for this island that we put within reach of your eyes, visitor, as if they were ours. Because loving us and what is ours in a committed way is the only way to make us love you.