Corporate Social Responsibility
Travel Specialists prides itself on being an active and positive force in the communities where we do business. We believe in corporate social responsibility and address, participate in, and respond to world and national events in the many communities we serve. We are a certified Green Travel Management Company, offering various state-of-the-art reporting capabilities and tools that track CO2 footprints for clients. We are a nationally-recognized diversity business, and have regularly received diversity awards.
Community
Travel Specialists is directly involved in community-based projects and activities that educate our youth, fund noble causes, and sustain and grow the pool of employees needed in the fast-paced and ever-changing travel industry. Below are just a few of the many community-centric programs Travel Specialists corporately supports:
- American Heart Association
- Covenant House
- The Dan and Gloria Bohan Foundation offers grants that support high school and college-level entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and advancements in medical sciences
- Fisher House
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- The German Cultural Institutes Food for the Hungry Drive
- The German School of Washington’s 5K Run
- Habitat for Humanity
- The Indus Entrepreneurs
- International Orphan Care
- Junior Achievement of Greater Washington
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
- North Carolina Wounded Veteran Run
- Shelter House
- The Susan G Komen Race for the Cure
- Wounded Warriors Project
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement is the country’s biggest organization helping young people gain the knowledge and skills they need to achieve economic success, plan for the future, and make the best academic and economic decisions. Their programs focus on work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. The Greater Washington service area includes 17 counties, including the District of Columbia. Travel Specialists Ltd is a proud sponsor of Junior Achievement, with a store front in Finance Park, just down the street from our headquarters in Fairfax, VA. The JA Finance Park experience is an in-depth lesson in how to manage personal finances. Teachers first educate their students using Junior Achievement’s fourteen-lesson curriculum to give them the necessary skills to participate. Upon arrival at JA Finance Park®, students sit through an orientation and are assigned a life scenario, including their occupation, salary, credit score, family members/dependents, and financial obligations. They then use this information to calculate their monthly income, set a savings goal, and create a budget. Once that is completed, participants “go shopping” at each storefront to see what actual costs would be, then pay using a debit card or online payment. Overall, the program lays the foundation for how one will approach financial responsibilities in the future through hands-on real life situations. The majority of the students who participate in the program agree that financial literacy prepares them for the future.
Junior Achievement is the country’s biggest organization helping young people gain the knowledge and skills they need to achieve economic success, plan for the future, and make the best academic and economic decisions. Their programs focus on work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. The Greater Washington service area includes 17 counties, including the District of Columbia. Travel Specialists Ltd is a proud sponsor of Junior Achievement, with a store front in Finance Park, just down the street from our headquarters in Fairfax, VA. The JA Finance Park experience is an in-depth lesson in how to manage personal finances. Teachers first educate their students using Junior Achievement’s fourteen-lesson curriculum to give them the necessary skills to participate. Upon arrival at JA Finance Park®, students sit through an orientation and are assigned a life scenario, including their occupation, salary, credit score, family members/dependents, and financial obligations. They then use this information to calculate their monthly income, set a savings goal, and create a budget. Once that is completed, participants “go shopping” at each storefront to see what actual costs would be, then pay using a debit card or online payment. Overall, the program lays the foundation for how one will approach financial responsibilities in the future through hands-on real life situations. The majority of the students who participate in the program agree that financial literacy prepares them for the future.
Environmental Sustainability
To meet our corporate and social environmental sustainability goals, Travel Specialists reaches internally and externally to expand business opportunities and to create a business model for success that includes the following attributes and activities:
To meet our corporate and social environmental sustainability goals, Travel Specialists reaches internally and externally to expand business opportunities and to create a business model for success that includes the following attributes and activities:
- Green certified travel management company
- Recycles inside and outside our buildings
- Encourages car-pooling and car-less commuting
- Conserves energy through installation of low flush toilets, lights out as you leave policy, high efficiency lighting, Energy Star certified windows
- Creates and maintains green space in and around buildings and parking areas to reduce run off in support of the Chesapeake Bay Initiative
- Tracks our own internal energy usage
- Offers employees opportunities to donate to social and environmental organizations corporately and individually
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