It’s also a time for businesses and business leaders to make positive changes within their organisations to improve staff welfare and wellbeing, seek efficiencies, and strengthen their bottom lines.

But these changes always take place in an ever-evolving commercial and operational environment where business priorities and imperatives shift week-by-week, month-by-month, season-by-season.

One emerging consideration is sustainability, the many tenets of which are undoubtedly set – whether by choice or insistence – to govern how companies go about their business in future, with travel poised to feel the effects of these changes more readily than many other sectors owing, primarily but by no means solely, to its carbon footprint.

But there are many other factors that will have to be accounted for, and these will inevitably trickle down from international organisations and governments, via airlines, tour operators and cruise lines and other stakeholders, to high street travel agents and homeworkers, who will be on the frontline of travel’s transition to a more sustainable future.

So while we’re all looking ahead with optimism and idealism to a new year, TTG caught up with sustainability partner TerraVerde to highlight seven sustainability trends that will affect travel businesses in the year ahead – and beyond.

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