✓ Inclusion of all stakeholders:

• As a company, we involve all employees and partners in the ongoing sustainability development process. We sensitize and motivate ourselves as a team and each individual employee to do business sustainably and to get actively involved.

✓ Living values together:

• With our sustainability strategy, we are committed to the regular review and continuous optimization of our operating processes in ecological, social and economic terms and provide incentives to rethink and act and communicate the company's (environmental) strategies and goals openly and regularly to all employees and partners
• In the area of social sustainability, we as a company take part in various events throughout the year - together as a team. For example, we take part in the "Wiesbaden engagiert!" (opens in a new tab) campaign week or in a charity charity run (opens in a new tab).
• The joint commitment and cooperation on a sustainable task strengthens the team spirit and creates a better understanding of community and social issues in our society.

✓ Building long-term and strategic partnerships:

• We developed our 2026+ tourism strategy using a participatory approach with numerous stakeholders from the local and regional tourism industry. We have established shared values and made them accessible to everyone. The aim is for all stakeholders to have a common understanding of values.
• With our Wiesbaden partner network (opens in a new tab), we implement projects and sustainable measures together with stakeholders from the various sectors.
• In the WIESBADEN RHEINGAU destination, we work in partnership with our colleagues from the neighboring Rheingau region and implement a wide range of measures together. This is how we create (sustainable) synergies.
• In many service areas, we have been working with local or regional companies for many years. Here we have built up long-standing partnerships and trusting relationships.
• Our partners, e.g. in event technology and catering, come from Wiesbaden or Mainz. We work with permanent partners or with preferred partners.

✓ Involving and informing our service providers:

• We inform and motivate our service providers to join us on the path to a more sustainable future. We have reviewed our conditions in our procurement guidelines to ensure fair procurement of raw materials and use of labor, etc.
• Our service providers (contract value over 10,000 euros) are subject to the Hessian Procurement and Collective Bargaining Act (HVTG). Among other things, this regulates "social, ecological and innovative requirements" as well as aspects of sustainability.

✓ Participation in initiatives and networks:

• Among other things, we are a member of the "Fair Procurement (opens in a new tab)" network, which takes into account fair and sustainable aspects in the supply chain
• CSR Regio.net (opens in a new tab)
• Ökoprofit (opens in a new tab)
• fairpflichtet (opens in a new tab)

✓ Promotion and support of social and sustainable projects:

• "Wiesbaden engagiert" campaign week: Organization of the annual summer festival of the pastoral care for the disabled
• 25-hour run organized by WISPO - Wiesbadener Sportförderung e.V.: Participation with a company running team. The participation fees and lap fees are used to promote competitive sport in the state capital of Wiesbaden
• WICM GmbH is a member of the "Friends of the Wiesbaden Museum" association. Among other things, it promotes the cultural education of children and young people.
• Participation in Earth Hour
• Participation in the Germany-wide city cycling project
• Hessian Day of Sustainability

✓ Cooperation with social facilities and institutions:

• e.g. guided tour of the Mechthildshausen domain (organic-biological farming and inclusion)
• Combination of local gastronomy with city tours
• The Museum Congress Ticket (opens in a new tab)(since 2022) provides WICM congress participants with discounted/free admission to the Wiesbaden Museum