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Mission and Values
The cooperative for a sustainable tourism environment (Coste) organizes and markets tourism of Minganie, Anticosti and the Lower North Shore, while promoting the people and the natural setting, by giving the travelers animated, dynamic, authentic, and memorable experiences while maximizing the positive benefits for the communities.
Objectives and benefits:
The main objective is to deliver quality tour packages, for the satisfaction of the clients while promoting the region and contributing to the economic development of the region (principles of sustainable development), CoSte expects the following middle term impacts:
- Social impact (highlight the people of the region, solidarity between visitors and the “locals”, quality of employment generated (new opportunities), networking and sharing of knowledge and experience);
- Development of aboriginal and non-aboriginal partnerships;
- Human capital: transfer of knowledge, training, development of entrepreneurship, enrichment of the region;
- Economical impact: maximize the economic benefits across the entire territory, new employment opportunities;
- Environmental impact (ecological capital): environmental awareness including ecological awareness in the municipalities;
- Impact on cultural capital: promote the potential creativity of artists, artisans, musicians and local storytellers, joint elaboration of cultural policies and of living and built heritage preservation programs;
- Elaboration (and collaboration in the production) of training projects, of a school for the tourism and hotel industry (local chapter on the territory) dedicated to the aboriginal communities on the territory.
Our values essentially rest on the intrinsic particulars of sustainable development, as defined by the Quebec government:
- “health and quality of life”
- “social solidarity and equity”
- “environmental protection”
- “economic efficiency”
- “participation and commitment”
- “access to knowledge”
- “subsidiarity”
- “partnership and cooperation”
- “prevention”
- “precaution”
- “protection of cultural heritage”
- “preservation of the biodiversity”
- “respect for the capacity of ecosystem support”
- “responsible production and consumption”
- “polluter payer”
- “cost internalization”
The agency wishes to transmit its values of respect as much to the clients as to the employees, the members, the communities and the environment; authenticity in the products and the experiences proposed in concordance with the past and the reality of today for the territory and its inhabitants; and of sharing its knowledge and its wealth.
© 2012 Voyages Coste
Coste is an travel agency holder of a licence of the office de la protection du consommateur of Quebec