TCS World Travel is committed to maintaining the quality and safety of the expedition for all participants, as you travel from city to city, country to country and continent to continent. This allows you peace of mind and to be able to enjoy all of the wonderful experiences with the knowledge that our expeditions meet high safety standards and protocols. As you would expect from a Private Jet Tour Operator, we take the health and safety of everyone on our expeditions very seriously and we listen to customer feedback and use it to continually maintain and improve safety standards.
Of course, travel is not without some inherent risks. The information below is designed to educate you on what you might encounter to help ensure that you have an enjoyable experience.
What to Expect During Your Journey
- Uneven ground/frequent walking up to one mile at any given time
- Climbing stairs carrying your backpack to board the jet, as many foreign airports do not have jetways
- Trip pace—one to three nights in each stop, including some late-night activities and early-morning departures
- Adjusting to time zone changes
- High altitude (depending on the expedition)
- Changes from your “normal” routine: unique local cuisine, frequent packing/unpacking, active days
Excursions & Activities
Overall, our expeditions give you the freedom to set your own pace when you are in the destination. Each destination on every itinerary offers a variety of options with different activity levels. In some, you may only be walking for short periods of time and have more downtime between excursions, while in others, you may spend the entire day touring or walking over uneven terrain. You may, of course, choose to have a day off and relax at any location. Our excursions and activities are graded internally based on established criteria and control measures.
- Activity: These are a low inherent risk in activity or environment. You would be looking at something rather than participating or doing.
- Type of activity or similar (list is not exhaustive): Museum visits, walking tours
- Potential inherent risks (list is not exhaustive): Slips, trips and falls injuries, bruising, grazing etc.
- Activity: There is some potential inherent risk in the activity, environment and attractions. Venues may feature water immersion. Other activities may directly involve customer participation in the activity or process.
- Type of activity or similar (list is not exhaustive): Horse or camel riding, boat trips or cruises, cable cars, show caves, rickshaws, tuk-tuk, sandboarding
- Potential inherent risks (list is not exhaustive): Animal mood, unpredictability or feeling they are in danger and reacts, injury or animal attack, equipment standards and fitting, embarkation and disembarkation trips and falls, equipment failure causing injury
- Activity: There is a high inherent risk involved in the activity or process which, if not controlled, may pose risk, and, again, attractions and venues may feature water immersion. The activity requires a safety briefing and ongoing qualified instruction and supervision. During the activity, the participants own actions can influence the outcome and serious injury can occur if incorrectly managed.
- Type of activity or similar (list is not exhaustive): Water sports, game drives, Jeeps, snowmobiles, go-karting, Vespa riding, shark cage diving, mountain biking
- Potential inherent risks (list is not exhaustive): Drowning, tide changes or rip tides, no lifeguarding, sea or motion sickness, attack or injury by marine life or animals, slipping on wet surfaces, hypothermia, vehicle overturning, embarkation and disembarkation trips and falls, head and other bodily injury from being thrown or falling from the vessel or vehicle, injury or animal attack
- Activity: There is a high inherent risk involved in the activity or process which, if not controlled, may pose risk, and, again, attractions and venues may feature water immersion. The activity requires a safety briefing and ongoing qualified instruction and supervision. The participants own actions can influence the outcome and serious injury or fatality can occur if incorrectly managed.
- Type of activity or similar (list is not exhaustive): Rafting including white water, zip lines or canopy, ATV or UTV or buggies, scuba diving, rock climbing, shooting and ranges
- Potential inherent risks (list is not exhaustive): Disorientation, vertigo, altitude and motion sickness; slipping, sliding, tripping and falling from platforms; coming in contact with gear, cargo, rigging, or guests equipment failure; guide instruction clothing, jewelry, or hair entanglement; novice drivers causing injury to themselves and others; not following guide instructions causing serious injury to themselves and others.
Slips, trips and falls can occur at any time and we ask that you stay alert, be aware of your surroundings, wear appropriate footwear, choose routes that are well lit and avoid shortcuts.
Animal Welfare
Wildlife viewing, use of working animals and animal attractions have the potential to offer customers memorable and authentic experiences on their holidays, and they can play a vital role in education and conservation, as well as providing job opportunities and supporting the economy. However, these attractions require careful management to ensure animal safeguarding, and the physical and mental state of the animal is prioritized. TCS believes that none of the trips offered across its portfolio of brands should negatively impact the welfare of animals. We are committed to continuously assessing any animal interactions that take place on our trips, to ensure that animal welfare is prioritized, and not exploited. Therefore, TCS does not offer:
- Performances involving wild animals that require them to elicit unnatural behaviors, or where the training involves punishment or food deprivation and causes animal fear, injury or distress
- Physical interaction with wild animals such as holding, petting or taking photos where the animal does not have the choice of moving away or where there is no care requirement for the animal
- This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities which we do not condone any participation in:
- Elephant shows or rides for tourists
- Experiences involving captive whales, dolphins or porpoises
- Tourist contact or feeding of wild cats, crocodiles, great apes or bears
- “Walking with” wild cats, such as lions, cheetahs, leopards, etc.
- Ostrich riding
- Animals being used for fighting, such as bull fighting, cockfighting, dog fighting, etc.
- Drugging of animals to subdue them
- Rodeo events that conduct calf-roping, team-roping, steer wrangling and other activities that are detrimental to the animals’ wellbeing
- Hunting of any kind
Vehicle Standards
Standards can vary from country to country and seatbelts may not be provided on every seat, as it is not always a legislative requirement in that country. Seatbelts should be utilized where available, such as airport and activity transfers, Jeep safaris and game safaris.
Road Safety
The rules of the road can be very different to those we are used to; please be vigilant at all times and familiarize yourself with the direction of traffic and look both ways before crossing the road. In some countries traffic is not required to stop at pedestrian crossings.
