Sustainability, solidarity, responsible tourism
The stranger is the one who comes and is not from home. He comes from elsewhere, he is a stranger, but he is welcomed and becomes a guest. This is the welcoming spirit of Waldensian Homes and Guesthouses.
Sustainability
All Waldensian Houses and Guesthouses adhere to guidelines to reduce their environmental impact and directly engage guests on sustainability issues. We care about protecting the environment and caring for creation: we strive to reduce plastic consumption, sort our waste and use water and energy-saving methods.
Heating and air conditioning are turned on in compliance with regulations and according to outside temperatures.
The Houses, depending on their characteristics, have installed solar panels, phyto-purification and composting systems, or practice sustainable agriculture and promote virtuous behaviors among guests as well with the Help Us Care for the Earth awareness campaign visible here.
Solidarity
We promote sharing and solidarity by using proceeds from Waldensian Homes to support Diaconia’s social projects, offering internship, volunteer and employment opportunities through our and other services aimed at, for example, asylum seekers, migrants, the elderly and single mothers with children.
We have welcoming facilities equipped to accommodate people with disabilities.
In addition, we are running the 1 Euro for… campaign by which, for every guest who stays overnight at one of our facilities in Italy, Waldensian Homes add €1 to a special fund that supports one of the areas of intervention of the Waldensian Diaconia.
Would you like to donate €1 too? Ask at the front desk which project is being supported in the current year.
Responsible tourism
We practice and promote responsible tourism, which is the sum total of best practices in environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, gender equity, and safeguarding territories and communities.
By staying in Waldensian Houses you can discover different Italian territories with a look beyond the traditional concept of tourism.
You will be pleasantly involved in a process in which all the “players” in tourism–tourist, travel organizer, host facility, and local community–work together so that the tourism experience is balanced and functional to everyone’s needs.
