TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes

How you can help your clients travel responsibly, but keep the fun

From supporting communities to boosting scientific research, discover how clients can leave a positive impact when they travel – and enjoy it too.

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.

'I left feeling like a better person': in the Dominican Republic with Iberostar

TTG’s Sustainable Travel Ambassadors discover Iberostar Selection Bavaro Suites offers responsible fine dining, tropical beach vibes and an educational Coral Lab

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

First of three TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes fam trips a huge success

Iberostar took travel agents to its resort in the Dominican Republic this month (June), while Intrepid will take a group to South Africa in September and Greece will welcome agents later this year.

How to actually reduce travel's carbon emissions

Individuals working in travel can feel powerless to stall harmful climate change, but there are genuine steps that can be taken to help. Jennifer Morris reports from the first of this year’s TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes workshops

Meet the 2024 TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors in training

TTG is proud to introduce the 20 agents who have joined the 2024 TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors programme

Greece returns as TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes Destination Partner

Greece will be the TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes Destination partner for a second year as the country continues to focus on driving travel agents to sell more sustainable travel

How embracing responsible travel could transform your agency

TTG’s Sustainable Travel Heroes and agent Ambassadors explain how promoting and selling sustainable travel can boost your sales and business.

Expert advice to help you build sustainable travel itineraries

Learn how to build a sustainable travel itinerary, with advice from this year’s TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes.

5 ways TTG's agent training initiative will boost your sales and business

Three of the class of 2023 share five ways the TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors scheme could help your business

Join the class of 2024 TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors

Would you like to become a TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassador? We’re recruiting agents to help build a Smarter, Better, Fairer travel industry.

TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes 2024 launches with new sector champions

AE Expeditions (part of Aurora Expeditions) and TTC Tour Brands have joined Iberostar and Intrepid as sector champions for this year’s TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes travel agent training programme – launching today (5 February)

How these inspiring agents have become champions for change

Find out what our community of TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors have achieved with their newfound knowledge

New tour operator promises to ‘put sustainability first and the destination second’

Sustainable Journeys is the new UK tour operator launched by Melissa Tilling, chief executive of Charitable Travel with Estonia as its launch destination.

How an Iberostar Majorca fam showcased the impact of sustainability

Iberostar Hotels & Resorts curated a special sustainability-themed fam for a group of TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors in Majorca

Meet the TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors class of 2023

A team of TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors have immersed themselves in responsible travel throughout 2023, and here they share how their training has boosted their confidence and developed their businesses

The Sri Lanka adventure that opened agents' eyes to the benefits of touring

Madeleine Barber joined TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors and G Touring in Sri Lanka to learn how the operator delivers richer experiences for travellers and helps care for the people and places they visit

Watch: Why an enriching tour is the best way to see Sri Lanka

TTG teamed up with G Touring (Just You and Travelsphere) to take agents on a sustainability-focused fam trip and help them discover Sri Lanka in a way that benefits people and the planet – and promises richer experiences.

How to sell sustainable travel as a luxury specialist

Two luxury agents reveal how TTG’s Sustainable Travel Ambassadors programme has helped them promote and sell more responsible holidays

Savvy ways to sell responsible travel

Agents heard how to market sustainable travel to capture clients’ interest, and how to avoid greenwashing, in the fifth TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors workshop

Sustainable Travel Ambassadors petition Tui on captive dolphins

Four agents passionate about sustainability are calling on Tui Group stop selling attractions with captive dolphins

A jumbo initiative to protect elephants in Sri Lanka

A new project funded by travel companies is helping humans live in harmony with elephants in the Indian Ocean destination.

Watch: The Iberostar fam trip that went behind the scenes on sustainability

A fam trip to Majorca with Iberostar Hotels & Resorts showed a group of TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors what the brand is doing to support responsible and sustainable tourism through its Wave of Change movement