In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Edwin Magio calls upon African travel & tourism stakeholders to put their words into action. Given that communities and conservation efforts are heavily reliant on tourism and have been adversely affected by tourism’s pause during COVID-19, it is important to ensure that they are at the centre of tourism’s post-pandemic recovery efforts.
Rafat Ali at Skift looks back at what we have learnt about the ‘new’ future direction of travel since the beginning of the pandemic. For Rafat, one of the big questions the industry and travellers now face is how to balance the conflicting notions of travel as a privilege and travel as a human need.
New research has been published ahead of COP26 to inform discussions on pathways to meet the SGD Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. The report considers how the airline industry can be more accountable for its carbon footprint and recommends stricter oversight of the quality of the industry’s market-based mechanisms.
As The Independent’s new travel editor, Helen Coffey is conscious of how tourism can be a force for good – or for evil – when it comes to people and planet. They are now pledging to do things differently from now on, by prioritising trips whose net positive effects outweigh the negative impacts and companies that are leading the way in cutting their carbon outputs and changing the travel industry for the better.
Even if all current Paris agreement climate pledges are met, the world is still set to see temperature rises of about 2.4C by the end of the century. Across sectors, companies have helped drive climate chaos. Now, at least a fifth of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have made some kind of “net zero” pledge to cancel out their carbon emissions. However, monitoring their effectiveness can be hard.
Accor continuously demonstrates its commitment to gender equality and diversity through global and local initiatives aimed at protecting and empowering women.
