How Best Stay gives back to the community
We believe people should give back to the community when traveling or organizing an event for a number of reasons. First and foremost, traveling and event organizers can significantly impact the destination, both positively and negatively.
By giving back to the community, travelers and event organizers can help to offset any negative impacts and contribute to the well-being of the local community.
This can include supporting local businesses or engaging in responsible tourism practices.
Additionally, giving back to the community when traveling or event organizing can provide a more meaningful, engaging, and rewarding travel and event experience. It can also foster a sense of connection and understanding between travelers, event organizers, and the local community, promoting cultural exchange and mutual respect.
Join Tree Planting in Croatia with OPG Hažić and Greener Act
OPG Hažić is a family-run business in Sveti Martin at Mura. One of their activities is winemaking and viticulture.
For the purpose of Best Stay 2022, we engaged and agreed to contribute to the replanting of their Sauvignon Grapes which have been affected by the Phytoplasma bacteria.
Greener Act is a digital platform through which local Organisations are now empowered to create, measure, and deliver more sustainable, conscientious, and purposeful experiences.
In order to compensate for this loss, we are expecting to plant 500 trees and offer travelers, especially Best Stay event attendees the possibility to offset their trip. At this very moment, we are somewhere around 100 trees.
How to offset your Best Stay 2022 trip and plant wine trees?
Choose a type of transportation (car or flight) - in case you traveled by car, type the number of people you travel with and the distance in both directions
Choose a number of nights you stayed in Terme Sveti Martin
Click to calculate
Choose one of the offset options for Croatia Tree Planting - options depend on the number of trees you’d like to plant
Go to Payment and donate with your credit card
How the whole process of calculating and offsetting your carbon footprint looks you can see in the video below.
Three reasons why sustainability is important
It helps to ensure that the resources we use today will still be available for future generations.
It helps to protect the environment and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Adopting sustainable practices can lead to cost savings and other economic benefits.
What do sustainability and giving back to the community have incommon
Sustainability and giving back to the community are connected because both involve taking action to improve the well-being of others and the environment. Adopting sustainable practices, such as reducing waste and pollution, conserving resources, and supporting local businesses, can benefit the community by creating a healthier and more livable environment.
At the same time, giving back to the community, whether through volunteering, charitable donations, or other forms of community involvement, can support sustainability by addressing social and environmental challenges and promoting a more equitable and sustainable society.
In this way, sustainability and giving back to the community are interconnected and can be seen as two sides of the same coin.
