Our commitment to sustainability

Belgian Bike Tours sell holidays that at its core are very environmentally friendly.

Cycling does not harm the environment. Still our business does include factors which can potentially harm nature and the environment. Belgian Bike Tours’ complete staff has been made aware of this and so we have instigated policy to control the negative effects of our business wherever possible.

Waste separation for recycling already takes place in our office, but can be improved upon. We have also cut down our electricity use by installing energy LED light bulbs;
Stimulating the use of public transport and bicycle amongst staff;
Taking into account the environment when planning our tours especially in the areas of transport, accommodation and activities and route;
Adhering to the principles, resolutions and rules of conduct for sustainable tourism of the coordinating branch organisation ANVR;
Providing our clients with information and tips on how to help care for the environment while on tour;
Communicating our commitment to caring for the environment to our clients, staff and agents through the website, travel documents and other channels.

It is in everyone’s best interest, not least our company’s, that it will still be possible to have beautiful and fascinating bike holidays in a clean natural environment in the future.

If you would like to know more about our commitment to sustainability, please see our sustainability policy below:
FVW SUSTAINABILITY POLICY_2026

Our company has achieved Travelife Certified recognition.

Travelife Certified is the highest recognition level within the internationally recognised Travelife sustainability programme for tour operators and travel agents.
Travelife Certified recognition is awarded following a comprehensive independent on-site audit based on the Travelife Certified Standard.

During the audit, it is verified that our company complies with more than 200 mandatory sustainability criteria covering areas including environmental management, climate action, biodiversity, working conditions, human rights, local communities, sustainable supply chain management, customer communication and responsible business practices.The audit confirms that our sustainability management system and sustainability practices have been demonstrably implemented throughout the entire organisation and comply with the requirements of the Travelife Certified standard.

To maintain this recognition, our company is recertified every two years to verify that we continue to comply with the requirements of the Travelife Certified Standard.

More information about the Travelife programme, the different recognition levels, the validity of our current Travelife Certified recognition, the assessment process and the publicly available Travelife criteria can be found on the Travelife consumer website: consumers.travelife.info

If you want to view our official certificate, click here

In the past 2 years we have achieved:

In February 2025, we became TraveLife Partner
In April 2026, we became TraveLife Certified
To reduce paper use, in 2024, we have launched our navigation App Guibo where all cycling routes are available. When we do print paper for our clients, we always use paper which has a certificate label (such as FSC or PEFC).
Since 2026 we support the Giving Back to Nature foundation. For each booking made, our clients donate €5 and we double this amount, so €10 per booking goes directly to this foundation.

Our goals for the next 2 years are:

We will gradually phase out printing paper route maps. When clients do want to receive printed documents, they will need to pay an additional fee.
We will calculate the CO2 emission involved in our trips and mention this per trip on our website. This will make clients aware of the impact of the chosen trip.

Our sustainability mission is to maximize the positive impacts of our trips, minimize and compensate for the negative impacts, both in terms of internal office management, logistics of our trips, suppliers selection and the sensibilization of our clients, by providing immersive and inspiring trips in a responsibly sustainable way, which promotes the value and the conservation of both natural and human, material and immaterial heritage.

Why the Belgian Bike-Tours trips are sustainable?

We offer an experience where the client soaks in the culture of the place, rather than offering trips that encourage destination collecting. We choose quality over quantity.
Accommodation is carefully chosen to be local, many of our hotels are family-run and small and are not owned by large chains.
A very high percentage of our accommodation is in rural areas, where tourism has a positive impact in terms of development rather than areas of high tourist pressure.
Our trips are always walking or cycling, this is part of our company philosophy. We do not offer quad biking, motorbike tours or other highly polluting activities because we want to promote sustainable tourism and we avoid all activities that do not comply with these values.

Travelling has an impact like every other human action, and we can’t help that. Nevertheless, what we can do is working on making this impact as positive as possible and compensate for the negative aspects.

Sustainability is a priority to us, it’s like caring about your own home. We feel responsible for the world we live in, for contributing to safeguard the environment we live in, to grant and develop equal rights for all humans and cultures on earth, to support an economic system that creates value and equally distributes it and at the same time safeguards the resources it is based on, in order for the future generations to inherit and evolve them.

We have always worked on sustainability and paid attention on limiting the negative impact of our trips, yet what we were lacking was a systematic approach based on the process “plan, implement, check”.

We have committed ourselves to:

Sustainability Management and Legal Compliance

Having a trained sustainability coordinator and sustainability team.
Networking and sharing experiences, training materials and best practices about sustainability with our partners.
Supporting local/national sustainability initiatives (nature protection / community development projects).
Creating and implementing an evaluation method of the sustainability performance of our suppliers.
Having a sustainability mission, policy and action plan to guide us and which identify long/medium/short term goals and how to achieve them.
Implementing an evaluation system to monitor the goals’ achievement.

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