ETHICAL RULES

In Aurinkomatkat-Suntours, operations are guided by a key ethical rule: "We don't inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children" plus the following seven principles:

1. We strive to recognize the environmental, cultural and economic effects of our operations and to reduce their negative impact.

2. We strive to cooperate with contractual partners who take the environment and local culture into account in their activities. We avoid cooperating with parties whose activities result in unnecessary and wilful harm to the environment and local culture. All of Aurinkomatkat-Suntours' hotel agreements include a 35 point "sustainability check-list", according to which hotels are rated.

3. We strive in our operations to reduce unnecessary use of materials (e.g. paper), to re-use where possible used and undamaged materials (e.g. office accessories) and to recycle all waste suitable for recycling.

4. We train our employees to embrace the challenges of a sustainable future in their work and to strive to increase customers' awareness of environmental and cultural matters at travel destinations.

5. We support projects which improve the environment and the status of local culture at our travel destinations. We also strive to bring to our travel destinations an environmental philosophy with which we are already familiar. We are in contact with local authorities about the introduction of recycling and the enhancement of waste management where this is necessary. We also communicate our customers' wishes about, for example, the opening of nature paths.

6. We tell our customers about the travel destination's environment and local culture and how to enjoy them without causing harm to the environment and local culture.

7. We monitor customers' impressions of the travel destination's environment with the aid of feedback questionnaires.