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Travel must ‘improve dialogue’ around sustainability to boost business

Destinations
Will Payne
26 April 2023

Travel must rethink its dialogue with consumers on sustainable travel and tourism if the industry is to address its carbon footprint, the co-founder and chief executive of Pura Aventura has warned.

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Addressing Spain’s inaugural Sustainability Day in London on Wednesday (26 April), Thomas Power said "fear and guilt" too often clouded or preceded conversations about sustainability.

"They don’t hear anything related to the positives – the experiences, the destinations, the food, the hidden escapes," he said. "It’s this dissonance of language – the difference between the language of sustainability and what we say to customers and how we sell it – that is the issue. If we want to change, we need to speak differently."