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Aito to set up climate change 'think tank'

Operators
James Chapple
23 November 2019

Aito plans to set up a climate change “think tank” to prepare, on behalf of the travel sector, a coordinated response to anyone who questions the sector’s commitment to pursuing positive action on the climate crisis.

Aito is setting up a climate crisis think tank

Addressing delegates at the Aito overseas conference in Wroclaw, Poland, chairman Derek Moore said the group would convene “once the dust has settled” following the 12 December general election.


“They will look at how we as a travel organisation respond to the crisis,” said Moore. “Consumers are increasingly going to challenge us and we need to have a considered response ready – we don’t want to be seen as the villain of the piece.”


Moore said the think tank would variously engage civil servants, politicians and the aviation sector, whom he described as just some of "the stakeholders" in the climate crisis.