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Intrepid Travel Offers 40+ Decarbonized Tours Amid Tourism’s Recovery
The world’s largest B Corp travel company has introduced 42 new, low-carbon alternative tours. The move is part of a wider decarbonization plan that includes removing all flights under 90 minutes from the top 50 trips, where possible, by... View More
Two Good, Marcus Samuelsson, Full Harvest Team Up to Fight Food Waste
The partnership between the yogurt brand, the celebrity chef and the food-rescue marketplace aims to inspire restaurants across the US to fight food waste by using rescued produce on their menus. ... View More
New Rewilding Europe Partnership Offers Regenerative Model for Travel Industry
A new collaboration with Exodus Travels opens opportunities for tour operators and travelers to help regenerate biodiversity at degraded destinations — and a thoughtful model with which to reopen global travel. ... View More
Destinations Limit Visitors, Define Ideal Travelers to Mitigate Overtourism
Popular destinations are increasingly prioritizing quality over quantity, dispersing travelers across larger geographic areas, and clearly defining the kind of travelers they want to attract. By addressing overtourism in this way, they also place loc... View More
With Tomorrow's Air, Travelers Can Help Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere
The world’s first carbon-removal collective for the travel industry offers climate-clever travelers and small businesses the ability to contribute directly to carbon removal and storage. ... View More
Aiming to Spark a Ripple Effect of Action, Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency
Despite the fact that COVID-19 essentially grounded international travel for the better part of 2020, the tourism industry’s collective decision to address the climate emergency has gained exponential momentum over the last few months. ... View More
COVID, Customers Lead MGM to Open First Smoke-Free Las Vegas Strip Resort
The implications of Park MGM’s move to go smoke-free within the COVID-19 pandemic are important to consider. Perhaps COVID is the nudge the industry needs to prioritize people’s health and eliminate smoking on casino floors. ... View More
New Standards, Certification Program Aim to Embed DEI Into Tourism
Travel Unity — a nonprofit focused on increasing diversity in travel through individual and community empowerment — has established a set of standards for DEI in travel and tourism, as well as the industry’s first holistic DEI certification pro... View More
River Cruise Giants Make Big Waves, Smaller Impacts with Biodiesel
For Hornblower, the integration of biodiesel into its latest boats was a natural evolution of its environmental stewardship. The company has led the charge in the industry, in terms of reducing its fleet’s impacts on the environment. ... View More
Dried and True: The Food Service World Works to Rein in COVID-Fueled Waste
As COVID-19 continues to change the landscape for food-service establishments, initiatives to mitigate food waste that combine creativity, technology and flavor with good business sense will become a necessity. ... View More
Building Back Better Demands More Thoughtful Tourism
COVID-19 has demonstrated that changes must be made in order to support and secure the future of travel. Along with elevated safety protocols, a genuine commitment to sustainability provides a roadmap to a more responsible travel industry. ... View More
Black Travel Alliance Holding Industry Accountable on Its DEI Commitments
Recognizing the urgent need to hold travel brands and destinations accountable for their lack of diversity in travel marketing and storytelling, the Black Travel Alliance was formed practically overnight to support Black content creators and increase... View More
New Guide to Help Travel Businesses Decarbonize During the Pandemic
Carbon-neutral travel giant Intrepid Travel aims to assist others in rebuilding responsibly, for a more sustainable return to tourism. ... View More
Trending: Returnity, Venetian Resort Working to Cut Out COVID Waste
Surgical mask upcycling and antimicrobial, reusable packaging solutions are some of the latest initiatives aiming to clean up some of our COVID-fueled, plastic-covered mess. ... View More
SDGs Key to (Re)Building Tourism with an Eye Toward the Future
The travel industry has done a poor job integrating the SDGs into business operations and reporting on them. But the Goals offer guidance on how to develop destinations that can appropriately manage tourism’s footprint and minimize environmental im... View More
What Role Will Shaming Play in a Post-Pandemic World?
Myriad opportunities exist to create a new “business as usual,” post-pandemic: People won’t need to be shamed into being more thoughtful or responsible if sustainable practices become the default in society and in business. ... View More
12 More Brands Using Their Powers for Good During the Pandemic
As the COVID crisis wears on, we wanted to applaud 10 more of our Sustainable Brands community members that have donated their time, money and products and/or pivoted their business models to get people in need what they need, fast. ... View More
Teach a Man to Fish: Why Some Travel Companies Support Microfinance
While sustainable tourism offerings are increasing along with traveler interest in giving back to the communities that they visit, most operators support local organizations through donations. But a growing wave are opting for microfinance to create ... View More
With More CEOs at Home with Their Children, Could This Pandemic Be the Catalyst Sustainability Needs?
As CEOs spend time reconnecting with their children at home, investors open laptops at kitchen tables and policymakers have more time than ever to consider our future; is now the time when long-term, sustainable decision-making will finally trump all... View More
