Valle Camping is a small camping site on a lake in the beautiful Valleys. Nearby are several unique cultural and historical sites and nature reserves with special natural values. People have lived and worked in this area since the Stone Age and we intend to do what we can to ensure that future generations will also have the opportunity to live in or visit our beautiful area.
Camping and inviting guests to visit us obviously affects the environment, but we strive to ensure that our operations have as little unnecessary environmental impact as possible, while at the same time ensuring that our guests have the best possible stay.
Here are some of the things we’re doing to reduce our environmental impact:
- The sauna is heated by wood from trees growing on our land. (The temperature of the lake is left to nature)
- Our guests are offered the opportunity to recycle waste.
- We take our drinking water from municipal water and the sewage goes to the municipal treatment plant.
- We avoid disposable packaging where possible and encourage visitors to use their own towels instead of disposable products.
- We choose cleaning products, hygiene products and other chemicals that do not harm the environment
- We try to reduce our electricity consumption by not having lighting, cooling/heating on if not necessary.
- We help our visitors find alternative ways to get around and recommend local restaurants and places to visit in the local area.
- We inform our visitors about the right of public access “allemansrätten” and how to reduce their environmental impact as a tourist in the area.
Valle Camping is a family business and everyone who works at the campsite lives in the local area. Our activities are part of our home town and we strive to make a positive contribution to its development. We believe in cooperation and that we are strongest together when it comes to supporting the development of the area in which we operate. Our summer workers are doing a fantastic job and we’re delighted to be able to offer jobs to local young people entering the job market. When maintenance or construction work is needed at the site, we use local resources to support the business community in the area.
We see sustainability work as part of our regular business where we constantly strive to improve what we do. Some of the projects we are working on right now are to look at how we can produce our own heat/energy on the farm, to offer charging facilities for electric cars and to change taps and fixtures to good but low-flow variants.
Together, we can ensure that we use our resources wisely and enjoy our holidays without reducing the opportunities for future generations to vacation and experience our pleasures, nature and history.
STEPPING UP SUSTAINABILITY
Valle Camping is also affiliated with Hållbarhetsklivet (Stepping up sustainability Initiative), an initiative for a sustainable tourism industry in Western Sweden.
Sustainability Life is run by the Tourist Board of West Sweden and is a platform for both public and private actors in the work to convert to a sustainable society. Read more on their website...www.hållbarhetsklivet.se
