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‘Travel has no choice but to get on the front foot when it comes to the climate crisis’

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Daniel Pearce
6 October 2023

The travel industry needs to step up its response to the climate emergency by working together more closely to find solutions; TTG Media CEO Daniel Pearce headed to the Greece National Tourist Office’s first Sustainable Travel "Agora" in Crete this week to find out where this can be achieved – and how.

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The first Sustainable Travel Agora took place in Crete, Greece, last year to find out how the industry could step up its response to the climate emergency (Credit: GNTO)

When it comes to the industry’s approach to sustainable tourism, is the glass full or half empty? Is the industry making great strides? Are countless companies now putting their own climate action plans in place? Or is travel woefully behind?


As ever with this topic, the answers are far from black and white. But a positive approach was fiercely examined and debated at the Greece National Tourist Board’s first sustainable travel "Agora" in Crete this week, hosted in partnership with and easyJet, to which I was privileged to be invited along with 25 other industry stakeholders.