Come To Galapagos, LLC Mission Statement November, 2006

Come To Galapagos, LLC is an international company registered and insured in both Ecuador Numero Registrada #3857543 and in the state of California, USA, # 200618010011. We are further licensed to sell travel in the state of California, CST #475829 and are members of the “Travel Consumers Restitution Fund” insuring traveler’s rights in California. Our business function is to market land based tours of the Galapagos in the US and coordinate the tours once they are here in Ecuador. We are the only existing international tour company owned and primarily staffed by native Galapagenios in these islands.


Our Primary Directive As A Galapagenian Company

To empower the true custodians of these islands (the inhabitants) to not only take part, but take the lead in the care of their/our islands and the future of their/our families and culture as we all transition toward sustainable economic practices.


Our Primary Directives As A Tour Company:

#1, To provide visitors the option of experiencing the Galapagos on a more intimate and comfortable level than would otherwise be available to them on traditional “cruise tours”.

#2, To empower the true custodians of these islands (the inhabitants) to not only take part, but take the lead in the care of their islands and the future of their families and culture as we all transition toward sustainable economic practices.

#3, To educate visitors about: the history, natural wonders and the ecological/political and cultural challenges confronting these islands.

#4, To enjoy and share the reality that is the Galapagos today.


These directives are interdependent.


Implementation:

#1 Develop The Company:
Create LLC, California licenses, International Licenses, Domain Name, Logo, Web Page, Insurances

#2 Bring the tourists:
Develop Marketing Plan, Purchase & Design Brochures, Business cards, etc. Develop Ads, Sales Strategy and Force

#3 Use Local Vendors:
Contract for services with existing Galapagenian Vendors, captains, guides, restaurants, hotels, taxis etc., receive and coordinate tours.

#4 Use Local Products:
Provide secure consistent contracts for goods, coordinate with farmers and fishermen to insure their production coincides with best practices.

#5 Incorporate the local culture within the tours:
Provide tours of local farms (coffee, bamboo, produce, livestock) and fishing co-ops, include the tourists in the day to day reality of life in the Galapagos, bingo bilable, barbeques, soccer games.

#6 Community Outreach:
To educate and inform local inhabitants of the real choices they have and the real consequences of the ones they make with regard to their immediate environment, political choices, manner and care of tourists, products purchased, etc.

#7 Work a politically:
Our affiliation is with the islands and the people of the Galapagos, not with what ever political party happens to be in power that year. As a company while we will always promote political education we will neither endorse nor disparage political parties or candidates.

#8 International Education:
Extending and developing our existing international contacts with reporting agencies, newspapers and government agencies, to continue to have the ability to use the international press to help effect changes in the constantly changing political landscape that is Ecuador today.