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    Category: Corporate Responsibility

    Planeterra’s new ‘PACT’ prioritises community tourism development in Panama

    Planeterra has teamed up the Panama Government and local NGOs to reposition Panama as a destination focused on cultural immersion experiences. The partnership aims to work with at least 10 communities to assist them with income diversification, product development, and customer service.

    In the Alps, ski resorts are desperately battling climate change—and local resistance

    Plans to create a huge ski resort that would require blowing up part of the Alps are on hold after major pushback from locals coming to grips with warming. A growing grassroots movement is now standing up to the powerful ski industry, arguing that it sacrifices untouched landscapes for ever grander projects that ignore the looming climate crisis.

    Interview with Ursula Petula Barzey from The Black Travel Alliance

    In this interview, award-winning blogger and marketing specialist, Ursula Petula Barzey, tells Rebecca Waller how the Black Travel Alliance came about and what urgently needs to change in order for travel industry to become more reflective of society at large. Ursula shares the key findings of the BTA’s #PullUpForTravel campaign and the alliance’s plans to conduct a global Black traveller study.

    Move over, sustainable travel. Regenerative travel has arrived.

    Can a post-vaccine return to travel be smarter and greener than it was before March 2020? Some in the tourism industry are betting on it. In this article from the summer, The New York Times offers a definition for regenerative tourism and looks at some positive developments since the start of the pandemic, including the launch of the Future of Tourism Coalition.

    Intrepid Travel becomes the first tour operator in the world with verified science-based targets

    Intrepid Travel has set a science-based emission reduction target in line with a 1.5°C future. Intrepid is one of 529 companies in the world, and the only tour operator, with approved science-based targets from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as the company steps up its fight for a more sustainable future for the travel industry.

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