After this first year of operation, I am thrilled to be celebrating the first year of launching our new electric mobility on guided tours of Porto with LivingTukTuk.com. Porto is a city after my own heart in which everything is genuine, unique, authentic, different and this is also true with the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and innovation that have emerged in this great city.

It was wonderful to drive a Tuk Tuk on the road with the team traveling through our circuits of 50 minutes, 90 minutes, 180 minutes in a 360º Porto or tailor-made visits that we offer to all visitors to this wonderful city that is Porto.

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We're so excited to take our guests to explore this fabulously quirky city – there's no other place like it. It has everything, from music to food, Port wine cellars, fun cruises on the Douro River like LivingCruise.com Party Boat, authentic culture, hiking and cycling.

Porto is our first destination with 100% electric mobility on guided tours and it is encouraging to see LivingToursGroup.com on a growth path. We couldn't do this without our brilliant partners - I've always said that good partnerships are very important.

We launched LivingTours.com with the mission of creating a company that would be an incredible experience for our guests in Portugal & Spain.

We are always looking to do things differently and innovate to improve the experience - we were the first company to introduce In-Person Reception Agencies – Tourist Service, in the historic centers of the cities of Porto and Lisbon, so that we can welcome you in person and with excellence our guests and the first company to create a Regular Wine Tour in the Douro Valley, with visits and tastings of Port and Douro wines, in the Alto Douro Wine Region World Heritage Site.

As the years go by and it's been 20 years, we are encouraging our teams to think as if we were in 2004 again, in the year of our founding. We are bigger, but always very agile and constantly adapting to the market, without ever losing focus on our Living Tours spirit and culture.

We are also very pleased to bring more competition in terms of electric and more sustainable guided tours to the Porto destination and we believe that we continue to offer the best experience on the city streets and with the smallest possible environmental footprint, also becoming in 2023 a company certified in terms of Sustainability by Biosphere Portugal.

With 100% electric tuk tuk's, colored red and our teams dressed up with Living red in their hearts, audio-guided tours in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French with a sound system so that everyone can easily listen to our fantastic Tour Experts, all our guests are loving the experience.

I also want to tell you a little secret. We launched our social program LivingTourianos with Cause 1for1, where we donate a meal for each participant in our Tours, and since then we have donated more than 241,602 hot meals to needy and homeless people in Portugal, through donations from 7 social solidarity institutions , namely: CASA – Support Center for the Homeless, Porta Solidária, Centro Juvenil de Campanhã – Seminário dos Meninos Orfãos, Make a Whish, Associação Midas, Associação DIMIX and ZERO.

We are also focused on the sustainability of our businesses, how we need to take care of our planet and how each company has a role to play in this issue, which is everyone's responsibility.

We have already created the sustainability department, which is carrying out a thorough analysis of all our processes and procedures and how we can reduce, reuse and efficiently use resources in all our areas of activity and in all departments of the company.

Living Tours has been investing in the transformation of its fleet over the last decade and now operates the youngest, cleanest fleet with the latest Euro 6 emissions standard. We know there is a long road ahead to net zero for the tourism sector. guided tours, but Living Tours has ambitious carbon targets and a strong commitment to reaching zero emissions within 3 years.

What we were unable to reduce, we are compensating with the planting of trees with Associação Zero, having already planted the first 3 thousand trees and we are currently replanting another 3 thousand trees in the Leiria pine forest, to compensate for the emissions that we were unable to eliminate. .

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When I'm faced with a big challenge, I always try and look for the opportunity and I believe we have a real opportunity here to transform our industries for good and use business as a force for good.

Sometimes people ask me what makes our brand and company special and I always say it's all thanks to our team.