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HOLIDAY PROTECTION & GUARANTEED STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE ATOL Protection - Cox & Kings is a fully bonded and licensed tour operator and the air holidays in this brochure are ATOL protected by the bonding scheme administered by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Our ATOL number is 2815. For more information about the protection offered by the CAA, please visit www.caa.co.uk. ABTA - Cox & Kings is a member of ABTA, the Association of British Travel Agents. For more information about ABTA and its members, please visit www.abta.com. Cox & Kings is also a member of AITO, the Association of Independent Tour Operators, assuring you of Cox & Kings' commitment to high quality service and ethical business practises. For more information about AITO and its aims, please visit www.aito. co.uk. Data Protection - If we collect any data about you this will be held under the UK Data Protection Act. We will not pass on any information about you to any third parties unless it is to contact you directly about any booking you have made with us. Those on either
our mailing or emailing lists may elect at any time not to receive any future promotional information from us, or to have their details suppressed from our mailing lists. Foreign & Commonwealth Office Advice - Cox & Kings receives a great deal of information about conditions on the ground from its local representatives, however, when deciding whether particular countries or regions are safe for travel the final decision is dependent on the guidance of the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). If you would like to know the current travel advice for any country you can visit www. fco.gov.uk or call 0870 606 0290. Responsible Tourism - Cox & Kings has been awarded 3-Stars by AITO - their highest Responsible Tourism (RT) rating. This means that Cox & Kings has successfully implemented and continually improved a RT policy and has also undertaken a specific project, which contributes to the economy, culture or environment of a destination. In Cox & Kings' case this was the raising of funds and awareness for the Magic Bus charity please visit www.magicbusindia.org. For details of Cox & Kings' full RT policy please visit www.coxandkings.co.uk Carbon Responsible - We encourage those who travel with Cox & Kings to offset their carbon emissions via Carbon Responsible. To calculate the cost of offsetting the impact of your long haul flight please visit the website link below to access the Cox & Kings scheme and use the carbon emissions calculator:
www.carbonresponsible.com/coxandkings. Cox & Kings offsets all carbon emissions for flights taken by our staff in the course of their work. Cox & Kings is a member of Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT), a UK travel industry campaign, which in cooperation with Global Tiger Patrol and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) aims to advocate and support a responsible and sustainable approach to tourism in Indian wildlife reserves, together with aiding specific conservation programmes which benefit the local communities and wildlife. As part of this initiative all Cox & Kings' prices for stays in Indian tiger reserves include a donation of £5 per person per night, all of which will go directly towards the support of tiger conservation projects. Please visit www.toftiger.com for more details. Cox & Kings actively supports the Magic Bus charity. This is a project set up by a former Cox & Kings colleague, Matthew Spacie, to give street and slum children in Mumbai an opportunity to develop and integrate into society by learning more about themselves and their environment, through a range of sports and outdoor activities. We have a particular passion for this project, which is currently helping over 3,500 children from unimaginably deprived backgrounds, and for 2008 we will be giving £2 for every person who travels to India on a brochure tour to the Magic Bus. For more information or to make a donation please visit: www.magicbusindia.org .
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