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Travel not doing enough on sustainability, agents warn

Sustainability
Will Payne
15 December 2021

Less than a fifth of agents think the travel industry is doing enough to address issues of sustainability, with almost half the trade believing it should be up to government to drive change.

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Last month, Cop26 put sustainability – and most notably the climate crisis – in the spotlight, while Abta’s Decarbonising Tourism webinar pressed home the message that it is no longer sufficient for the industry to simply campaign on or advocate climate issues, it must commit to “robust” strategies to ensure genuine change.

Nearly 100 agents gave their views via a sustainability-themed edition of TTG Media’s fortnightly Travel Agent Tracker survey, in which just 19% of respondents said they felt travel was doing enough.