Malawi-based tour operator, The Responsible Safari Company, specialises in sustainable, educational and philanthropic travel experiences. Despite the devastating effects of the pandemic on their business, the company have declared a climate emergency and signed up to the guiding principles outlined by the Future Of Tourism Coalition. For managing director, Kate Webb, improving economic resilience goes hand in hand with protecting local ecosystems.
In a new paper published in Science Direct, Professor Gossling discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to reconsider the foundations of the global aviation system. He suggests that the volume growth model championed by industry and aviation proponents may have to be replaced with an alternative model that accounts for its environmental impacts.
The diploma is the first of its type and is aimed at students from developing countries and small island states. It will train students to support businesses in the travel and transport industry in adjusting their operations towards the goal of becoming carbon neutral, in the face of the global challenge of Climate Change.
Tour operator Intrepid Travel has created a 10-step guide for travel companies looking to decarbonise their businesses. The free resource provides an easy-to-follow action plan on reduction and offsetting to encourage the tourism industry to rebuild more sustainably amidst the pandemic.
New research from Lund University highlights tourism’s lack of resilience to downturns and suggests there are few tangible guidelines to make tourism more resilient as well as climate friendlier. The authors conclude that many of the major structural changes will have to come from policy makers.
