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'It’s time for travel to embrace its role in climate action'

Sustainability
3 November 2021

The travel and tourism sector has had a troubled relationship with climate change – often defensive, typically fragmented, and rarely aligned with international agreements or scientific frameworks.

The white paper features five core principles businesses can adopt (Credit: Li-An Lim)

We know many organisations have become increasingly interested in taking action, but there remains a general lack of know-how, and many questions about how to tackle change that’s often complicated and – in many cases – bigger than any one organisation can deliver.

But tourism has a vital role to play. It represents a large portion of many economies around the world. It has the potential to be a real driving force for change in those destinations, encouraging decarbonisation and climate resilience across the broader supply chain, in local economies, and around public infrastructure.