Natural capital and green infrastructure investments offer demonstrable benefits including cost-effective reductions in their environmental footprint, as well as improvements to brand perception and employee recruitment and retention.
Centre will include a Sustainable Tourism Observatory, which will assist preparedness, management and recovery of crises which impact tourism and threaten economies and livelihoods.
This year hotels across the world will compete in categories which examine their carbon footprint, water stewardship, waste reduction, community impact, and their role as a responsible employer.
All short-haul flights within Norway and neighbouring countries lasting up to one-and-a-half hours should be operated by electric aircraft, forecasts Norwegian airport operator Avinor.
For sustainable travel to achieve its aims, it must be recast to focus on its impact, how it is measured, its carbon intensivity, and the speed at which this can happen.