Safina Tours believes in Sustainable and ethical Tourism. We ensure that our activities fully consider the current and future of tourism. Our focus spans all three aspects of tourism sustainability: economic viability, social acceptability, and environmental friendliness.
Economically, we strive to ensure our company fairly generates profit for its survival. We have existed since 2006 and have experienced fantastic growth in our business. As a company, we try to be a good taxpayer; the income of our company benefits all Zanzibaris through tax collection by the government and director contributions to community projects.
Socially, we prioritise local people, specifically the surrounding community, whenever we have employment opportunities. More than 95% of our employees are local Zanzibaris and Tanzanians holding all senior management posts. Indeed, Safina Tours fully involves local people in tourism activities to distribute the benefits to all Zanzibaris and Tanzanians. In doing so, it has become our policy to subcontract local people to execute some of our activities rather than doing them ourselves. For instance, we use local people’s boats in all water excursions, such as Safaris Blue, Mnemba snorkelling, Sunset cruise, and Fishing, in view of building their capacity and ensuring a direct benefit to local people from tourism.
Environmentally, we regularly train our team to do away with all activities threatening the ecological and cultural heritage. Thus, our policy has become to replace our vehicles after a short period to avoid the pollution from the old cars. Also, we inform our customers to avoid the unnecessary collection of coral reefs during diving and snorkelling and to do their activities carefully. Most importantly, we have stopped being part of some activities, such as dolphin tours, that endanger the future existence of dolphins.
Environmentally, we regularly train our team to do away with all activities threatening the ecological and cultural heritage. Thus, our policy has become to replace our vehicles after a short period to avoid the pollution from the old cars. Also, we inform our customers to avoid the unnecessary collection of coral reefs during diving and snorkelling and to do their activities carefully. Most importantly, we have stopped being part of some activities, such as dolphin tours, that endanger the future existence of dolphins.