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Where travel becomes meaning.
A system designed for impact.
Measuring what truly matters.
A Gateway to Exploration & Transformation.
Where travel becomes meaning.
I. We are Esencia.Patagonia
For over 20 years now, we’ve devoted ourselves to the art of designing and operating high – end experiences in Patagonia. Our mission, to catalyze transformation trough travel.
We curate trips that combine nature, adventure, gastronomy and art as a gate to exploration and a way to inspire a new mindset.
We share moments not only to a touristic end but to invite us to reflect on our bond with the environment.
A system designed for impact.
II. Our Method
In order to accomplish our mission, we are curating a method that goes beyond travel.
A method designed to inspire personal transformation while creating positive social, economic, and environmental impact.
This approach is lived and refined through every journey we design, working alongside local communities and natural environments to ensure each experience becomes a force for regeneration.
Through this vision, we have identified seven essential components that guide our way of working and shape every experience we create, leaving a meaningful footprint on both traveler and destination.
Inspiration
Esencia’s method is inspired in the following movements:
1 – SHARING NATURE (Joseph Cornell, 1979)
It uses creative nature activities that fosters empathy and makes ecological principles come alive.
2- SLOW TRAVEL (2016)
It’s about living destinations, nos just visiting. It’s about connecting with people, their culture, food, environment and with yourself.
3- LEAVE NO TRACE
We want to spread their values of nature caring and low impact guidelines to explore the outdoors.
III. How we live by the method
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High- end Experiences
Redefining luxury
We want you to make the difference on your next trip. We deliver experiences with an added value:
Private access to remote locations, nomad tents, education in nature, the importance of intimacy, a calling for service and professionalism, are some of the difference makers on our job which redefine the idea of luxury.
How we live by the method: In our Product
Duration
We design and operate integral trips, lasting from 3 days onwards.
To achieve the transformation to which we aspire, we believe in living a destination with all its elements of identity.
This means prioritizing an exchange with locals’ traditions and the environment.
Storytelling
We design individual, family and corporate experiences with programs that allow you to experience first-hand the transformation during your stay(*):
- Wellness and meditation courses (e.g.: Wim Hof, Sankalpa)
- Healthy nutrition
- Exchange with local community (e.g.: Herreros de la Luz or Gotitas de Esfuerzo Soup Kitchen)
- Conservation of local flora and fauna
- Team building activities
- Local artist’s atelier (e.g.: Pablo Bernasconi Art Gallery)
- Planting trees, visit to local greenhouse, visit to Isla Victoria’s school.
Values
We have incorporated the concept of “Km 0”: we provide activities that cause the least impact on the environment, such as sailing, kayaking, trekking, mountain biking or stand – up paddle starting from locations and lodgings that do not involve transfers in vehicles or the minimum and required ones
How we live by the method: Sales Deparment
Curated rates & experiences
Quantity vs. Quality:
We reduced the number of experiences in our rates list based on our philosophy of “less is more”
Prioritizing quality over quantity means, from now on, dedicating ourselves to those experiences that reflect our method: this means, that are 100% operated by us, in which we can take care of every detail, being fundamental actors of our purpose of inspiring people’s transformation.
Consulting, product development & marketing
We partner with projects with commercial potential that resonate with us because we can also apply the method to them.
After more than 20 years in business, we feel comfortable in enabling the client to achieve an operational structure with differential value in the art of providing experiences.
Family team
We have a select team of guides who give voice to our values in every contact with those who pass through our experiences:
- They transmmit respect for nature and awareness for the care of the National Parks we travel through.
- They invite to remain silent in nature and avoid the use of social media.
- They avoid the use of adjectives during the service to allow for wonder without emotional conditioning. They share local customs, recipes and stories that are the foundation of each service.
How we live by the method: Operation Deparment
Accommodation
We apply quotas per location to protect privacy and achieve an atmosphere that allows them to connect with themselves and with nature.
Risk Management
We apply an emergency protocol, weather forecast, and first aid kit (external defibrillator) to protect guests during field trips.
Time Frame
We’ve identified overcrowded locations during daylight hours,
so we suggest new versions of some experiences during
sunset or early morning, instead(*).
(*)e.g.: An early dinner during sunset in summer season for Isla Experience or Exotic Lake. A breakfast for early birds or a dinner during sunset for an Andes Trail experience.
Leave no Trace
We’ve adopte the Leave No Trace movement Seven Principles, which provide an easily understood framework of minimum impact practices for anyone visiting the outdoors.
- PLAN AHEAD & PREPARE
- TRAVEL & CAMP ON DURABLE SURFACES
- DISPOSE OF WASTE PROPERLY
- LEAVE WHAT YOU FIND
- MINIMIZE CAMP FIRE IMPACTS
- RESPECT WILDLIFE
- BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS
Values in every decision.
IV. Transformation Main Fund Impact Offset Fund.
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The Esencia Method
Conservation Purposes
We created Esencia.Patagonia’s Transformation Fund (ETF), our own tool to compensate for the environmental, social and economic impact of our operations.
All of our product rates include a percentage that is destined to this Fund, with which we support:
- Projects with conservation purposes in the places we visit.
- Local communities’ sustainability.
- The continuous training of our staff.
Carbon Footprint Offset
The project’s economic impact on the local community is significant.
In order to create awareness, we have commissioned specialists in environmental studies with researching the impact of each one of our tours and tourism services.
The result was a colour-coded rates book that allows users to easily identify the impact and carbon footprint of each service they hire.
By doing this, we include Carbon Footprint amounts in the Transformation Fund and destine them to the protection of the areas we impact.
USD2 charged per person per activity.
USD8 charged per person per activity.
CO2 VALUES PER PERSON AND ACTIVITY INCLUDED IN OUR EXPERIENCES RATES: (*)
(*)Metrics based on Esencia Patagonia’s Sustainability Diagnosis and Corporate Environmental Responsibility Analysis by Daniel Aldo Gómez, Lic. in Biological Sciences and Ecologist (2017 – 18 Summer season).
Environment, Community & Economy.
V. Transformation Fund Projects & Report
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Enviornment
Reduce the impact by putting into practice environmentally friendly habits.
We encourage travelers to live first-hand transformative experiences during their stay.
Community
We respect the identity and projects of our local community.
Through travel, we invite you to be part of social impact partnership we are involved with.
Enviorment
In March 2021,we certified as a B Corp.
We became part of the B system worldwide movement that groups companies aligned with positive impact business.
Environmental Awareness
Waste Management
Disposable plastic bottles avoided in November 2021 during outdoors experiences.
Kg of recycled waste during 2021 (*)
Native forest Restauration
Alliance with Isla Victoria’s Botanic Garden and Greenhouse.
Nativo Forest Reforestation Project in 2023 fall together with Circuito Vede NGO.
Wildlife Conservation
Alliance with SNAP: contenido en experiencias Andes Trail Experience and Condor Watching.
Inputs and donated funds for monitoring the Andean Condor in their Webcams Project.
(*) This is one more tool in our ongoing pursuit of a method for transformation.
We Belong to a Community
Social Projects
Families supported at Comedor Gotitas de Esfuerzo (local Soup Kitchen).
Teenagers dreaming with a future job at Herreros de la Luz (Bariloche, RN).
Team Training
Internal trainings for
Esencia’s team (*)
Exchange visits with travelers
at Isla Victoria’s Greenhouse.
Visits to Isla Victoria Primary School, “Aurelio Pargade” Nº303
Diversity Respect
of women in the team.
of women in our select guide’s team.
(*)Trainings on how to deliver high-end outdoor experiences, with specialists in sustainability and first aid in remote areas.
Economic Positive Impact
How to balance purpose and profit:
Job Positions
Employees in Esencia’s team
Select team of guides aligned with our method.
One high-end program on a 2- pax basis generales 11 job positions.
Local Economy Developement
of our suppliers belong to our local community (Over 3.000)
- We offer gifts with purpose: locally made beverages, food, art and clothing.
Transformation Fund
- Destined to positive impact projects. (pages 23 and 24)
- We comply with Llao Llao’s Park conservation fee.
(*) Musicians, artists, chefs, drivers, boat captains, regional gastronomic product suppliers and every member of our local community that contributes to our product identity.
Values in every decision.
Transformation Coefficient
We want to measure the transforming effect traveling
experiences have on people. We are studying which tool can best reflect the results of our method of transformation.
Which feeling describes best your trip?
Is there a new habit you’ve Incorporated ?
What is your favourite memory?
(We take into consideration cultural background)
We rely on these questions to gather information and
measure what we will call the “Transformation Coefficient”
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Policies & Conditions
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Contact Information
Email: info@esenciapatagonia.com.ar
WhatsApp: +54 9 2944 35-5222
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