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Viventura is fun. We make sure your trip to South America is fun. It is just as important to us that all employees enjoy their work.

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Viventura is Germany's leading tour operator for South America. The operational headquarters are in La Paz, Bolivia, while the headquarters of Ventura TRAVEL is Berlin. Both La Paz and Berlin are home to our viventura staff. Since our employees are our most valuable asset, we do a lot to make them feel comfortable. You can see this, for example, in the fact that we allow our employees to work from other offices. We also travel to a different country once a year to work together on projects and day-to-day issues if company goals are met. Depending on the office, regular team events and social days, massages, back classes, and high-quality equipped workstations. Our company language is English. For this reason, all job posting are in English. If you don't find a job opening for you here, you have two options: Either you can visit our ventura career site, where you will find all jobs published by ventura and its brands. If you heart beats exclusively for ventura, we look forward to receiving your unsolicited application.

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Polartours is an Expedition Cruise Specialist for trips to Antarctica and the Arctic. We partner with over 20 operators to bring you a huge range of expedition cruises, ranging from Greenland to the Falkland Islands, from Svalbard to the Antarctica. We take great pride in our unrivalled knowledge of the ships, itineraries and their philosophy of sustainable traveling.

We have no preferred operators, which means that we will gladly advise against one ship and for another, if we feel that this will enhance your experience and match your interest, budget or level of fitness better.

Meet Benno, the founder of Polartours. Benno's big passion is traveling and online marketing. In 2018, while traveling to the Galápagos Islands, he was astonished not find any web page that would easily allow travelers to compare and book Galápagos Cruises. A few months later, www.galapatours.com, the world's leading specialist for Galápagos Cruises and sustainable tourism in Galápagos was born.

Polartours follows the same philosophy: Our expert team of Travel Specialists aim to understand each vessel's philosophy in detail and pride themselves with their extensive knowledge of the destinations. We are experts in our field and want to share our wealth of knowledge with you to enhance your experience of the polar regions.

A cruise to the Arctic or Antarctica is not something you book without having done extensive research. We understand the importance of your investment and that, for many of our clients, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

This is why we give a best-price guarantee: Should you find a better price for the same route anywhere else, let us know, and we will outmatch it. This way, you will never pay more than if you booked with the operator directly. In addition, we also have excellent rates for any arrangements you'd like to make around your cruise including flights, accommodation and land tours.

And the best thing: Your trip is an investment into sustainable tourism. All our ships follow strict ecological guidelines and, out of our own pocket, we chose to compensate 100% of the CO2-Emissions created by your voyage.

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Discovering the world should generate positive impacts. That’s why your trips will always comply with specific requirements to produce the best sustainable effects while having the time of your life. Susana, our CSR responsible, gives you more details in this video.

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Your entire trip is 100% compensated (flight, hotel, excursions, etc.) by an international Gold Standard project. Through a provider for CO2 offsetting, tested and certified by TÜV-Nord, we have obtained for our clients the CO2 certificates via the carbon offset project in Chile. At the Santa Marta landfill site south of Santiago de Chile, gases from the waste are used to produce environmentally friendly energy. This saves approximately 348,000 tons of CO2 per year.

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The VSocial foundation's first commitment already took place during the first Viventura trips in 2001. In 2005, vSocial was officially recognized. The vision of this foundation is to bring positive change in the communities we support by encouraging people to benefit from sustainable tourism. The goal is to strengthen communities, preserve their cultural richness and accompany them on the path to self-management. Ventura TRAVEL supports the VSocial foundation every year with more than €120,000. For this, a donation of 25 € is included in the price of each tour of our brands. Our travelers also have the opportunity to visit several projects during their trips to specific destinations.

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Through sustainable travel planning, we try to avoid domestic flights as much as possible during our travels. In addition, the majority of our trips have a minimum duration of 14 days and the group size is limited to a maximum of 15 participants. Clients stay mainly in family-run, middle-class hotels. Travelers and the local population are informed about environmental protection measures. Local tour guides receive annual training on topics such as country knowledge, first aid training, environmental protection and social commitment. In addition, our local partners, with whom we encourage long-term contracts, are called upon to constantly develop their services in a sustainable, socially and environmentally friendly manner.

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Respect for human rights in tourism is a major concern. As an active member of the Round Table on Human Rights in Tourism for many years, we verify that for all our trips, our partners respect the legal provisions in terms of wages and employment, especially for young people. We also support the "Don't look away" campaign, which aims to protect children in their vacation destinations from sexual abuse and exploitation.

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Viventura, the South American specialist of Ventura TRAVEL, is the proud winner of the sustainability award Fairwärts with its trip "viActive Ecuador Galapagos". The trip was awarded as an innovative and sustainable travel offer, focusing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda 2030. The award is organized by the non-profit organization kate Environment & Development in cooperation with Tourcert. The project is supported by Engagement Global on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

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