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'Whatever comes out of Cop26, Aito will be involved'

Operators
Derek Moore
5 November 2021

Aito’s climate thinktank (ACT) began, as so many good ideas do, at the late night bar at the 2019 Aito conference in Wroclaw.

Kuoni's approach to sustainability

Climate change is set to reshape travel and tourism over the coming years (Credit: Hello I'm Nik / Unsplash)

A small group, half a dozen Aito members, discussed their mutual feeling that Aito, an association that has for 30 years placed sustainable tourism at its core, should be addressing the wider issues around the climate crisis.

The ACT was thus conceived, powered by members’ passion to understand and address issues around the climate crisis, only to be put on hold for most of 2020 owing to Covid-19.

But when it reconvened in late-2020, the group had swelled in numbers, and it swiftly agreed the think tank needed a website separate from Aito – aitoclimatecrisis.com.