Oak Bay Luxury Getaway
Ontario, Canada
January 2022
Accommodation
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
Canada
Oak Bay Luxury Getaway is a short term rental showcased on the Airbnb platform. We promote and offer a Sustainable Tourism vacation rental experience. We are located in an UNESCO Designated Biosphere known as the Georgian Bay Biosphere and are a part of the largest freshwater archipelago in the world. We are 1.5 hours north of Toronto, located in Port Severn, Muskoka, Ontario Canada. Up to 8 guests can experience travel that they can feel good about by working with a host the promotes composting, reducing food waste and packaging, and encourages guests to plan ahead to reduce if not eliminate their own carbon footprint. Dogs are welcome. The location is a corner lot with many intentionally planted trees, natural granite landscaping, pollinator gardens, gazebo's, indoor and outdoor fireplaces and beautiful décor. This location supports local art, growers, producers, sustainable furniture, a Peloton, and an Electric Vehicle level 2 charger. We are located in a golf course community known as Oak Bay Golf and Marina. We are direct partners with the only Golf Course as they are the only course in the Country that is certified as a Bee City. They plant annually thousands of pounds of wildflowers in protected areas to support bees and other pollinators.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 9.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 9.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 53.4
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 18.9
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 4.4
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.