Sustainability

Small changes, big action: how to help your customers travel more responsibly

Help your customers travel more responsibly on their next trip by sharing easy top tips from the third of this year’s TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes expert workshops.

HF Holidays makes carbon measurement part of ‘product-to-market’ process

Carbon measurement and trip labelling will form a core part of the walking holiday specialist’s aim to reduce its carbon footprint by 5% a year

Spanish Tourist Office reveals roadmap to 'five-star service' for disabled travellers

The Spanish Tourist Office has released its first-ever Accessibility Findings Report as part of its ongoing Spain For All campaign, which champions accessible travel

Byway's Paul Conroy: 'I'd love to reach out to more agents this year'

Byway’s head of partnerships Paul Conroy tells TTG’s Gary Noakes about its bold new operator and agency tie-ups, and what it plans to do with healthy new investment

'Spain won't avoid the hard questions when it comes to accessibility'

Writing for TTG, the Spanish Tourist Office’s UK director Manuel Butler reflects on humbly listening to experts to find solutions when it comes to issues around accessibility

'Cruise has to demonstrate to the communities it visits it's doing the right thing'

MSC Cruises’ vice president of sustainability and ESG, Linden Coppell, talks TTG through the line’s latest sustainability achievements, including the use of liquefied natural gas

'Let’s all take a leaf out of Mel’s book and go forward with open hearts and minds'

Former TTG news editor Jennifer Morris recounts how she got to know the late Melissa Tilling, and how they worked together on her most personal story

CAA tells five UK airports to make accessibility improvements amid general progress

The CAA says five UK airports need to improve accessibility for those with mobility issues but says the situation generally is improving

Travel trade support group Back in Time for Bed names first board

Berry Consulting’s Julie Berry, Club Med’s Jemma Bridges, Celebrity Cruises’ Michael Young-Richards and DoSomethingDifferent’s Lucy Paterson will comprise the group’s first board

Travel Trade Crusade victors to donate van as charity rally raises £70,000

Sunvil managing director Chris Wright said his winning Bounce Backers team had donated Roger the Recovery Truck to the international Ukraine Front Line coalition

Don’t mention the ‘S’ word – and 11 other actions to support responsible travel

TTG’s recent Fairer Travel Sustainability Forum played host to a series of debates spanning communication, overtourism and discovering ‘small acorns’, while exploring how everyone can be a champion for change

Air New Zealand abandons 2030 carbon reduction targets

Carrier blames availability of new, more efficient aircraft, affordability of alternative jet fuels, and a lack of regulatory and policy support for its decision to withdraw from the Science-Based Targets initiative

Sandals Foundation Island Challenge fundraising extends to Hurricane Beryl support

The 2024 Island Challenge for Sandals sales and marketing representatives, Unique Vacations UK, aims to raise £100,000 for paediatric care in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Agents reveal their opinions of Iberostar's Dominican Republic resort

The first TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes fam trip of 2024 visited Iberostar Selection Bavaro Suites in the Dominican Republic – here’s what our TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors in Training thought of their experiences and what they learnt from them

Has Spain's patience with mass tourism snapped? And why now?

Months of protests in some of Spain’s most popular destinations ahead of the peak summer season have made headlines around the world – so have locals really had enough? And how are Spain’s tourism authorities seeking to calm tensions?

The Big Question: Is direct action targeting air travel ever justifiable?

Climate activists don’t believe travel is taking sustainability seriously, and have taken matters into their own hands. But is this the best way to make people fly – and pollute – less?

The Moroccan charity changing worlds – one young girl at a time

Education for All Morocco is one of several beneficiaries of the Intrepid Foundation, this year’s Travel Industry Awards by TTG charity partner. Board member Samira Govers El Hachioui tells TTG why its work is so important to Morocco

‘Oil Kills’ activists attempt to disrupt operations at UK and EU airports

A group of Just Stop Oil campaigners were arrested at Heathrow, while activists at Cologne-Bonn airport glued themselves to the tarmac

‘Operators can be pivotal in travel's fight against climate change’

Nobody caught up in the wildfires that swept across Rhodes last summer will forget the devastating scenes, which prompted the largest evacuation effort in Greece’s history.

Hurtigruten Expeditions rapped for sustainability claim in fly-cruise ad

The Advertising Standards Authority said the ad’s reference to ’sustainable expeditions’ constituted an ’absolute claim’ referring to the full life cycle of an HX holiday, including travel to and from the destination

11 points to know when running a travel firm that wants to be fairer

TTG invited key figures from inside and outside the sector to speak at its Fairer Travel Diversity Forum last week. Harry Kemble heard where progress was being made and where the sector needed to double down on its efforts

Travel agencies' green claims to go under the microscope, ad watchdog warns

The UK’s advertising watchdog has warned travel agencies they are being monitored more closely for the sustainability claims they make

Tourism can only be sustainable if it is supported by locals, says Tui boss

Sebastian Ebel’s comments followed a meeting with Spain’s top tourism officials, where popular destinations have faced a wave of anti-tourism protests in recent months

Intrepid Travel creates sustainability handbook for agents to harness their 'power to influence'

The 12-page handbook, designed to empower agents to demystify sustainability topics for their clients, is available from the Intrepid website