We have measured all the tangible elements of Santa’s World Tour 2022 to GHG Protocol where catered for. Our calculations include: Divided by 1 billion kids (just the well-behaved ones!) = 5.564 milligrammes CO2e per child* * We always encourage complete transparency but as The Big Guy is notoriously secretive about his operation, we have […]
Date: 12-15 December 2022 Location: Seville, Andalusia, Spain GSTC2022 Sevilla will bring together international and domestic tourism stakeholders involved in the development and promotion of sustainable travel & tourism; including public sector, hotels, tour operators, corporates, OTAs, academia, development agencies, NGOs, consultants, and more. Patrick Richards joined a panel of experts to discuss Data, Stats, […]
Date: 7th of December 2022 Location: Online Agents hopeful of winning a place in TTG’s Top 50 Travel Agencies 2023 are invited to an exclusive online seminar to help them prepare for questions around sustainability. The half-hour virtual masterclass on 7 December will feature TTG’s sustainability advisor TerraVerde, alongside Deben Travel boss Lee Hunt, who has […]
Date: 7th to 9th November 2022 Location: ExCel London It was wonderful to meet so many people from the travel industry at this years World Travel Markets; an exciting event which showcases destinations and travel organisations from around the world. Our team were delighted to see the popularity of the sustainability stage and it’s clear that […]
Date: 2nd November Location: FIBES Seville Patrick Richards will be taking to the stage to moderate a discussion at this years summit. The Tourism Innovation Summit is aimed to help tourism and travel industry to face all those short and long-term challenges. Seville will host again three days of disruptive masterclasses where success stories of travel are going […]
Many hotels encourage guests to reuse linen and towels. Asking customers to place a note on their door, or to hang their towels in a certain place, to indicate that they are happy to reuse them. But wouldn’t it be better if guests had to choose the least sustainable choice instead? Making the default behaviour […]
Date: 19th & 20th of October Location: ExCeL, London Patrick Richards will be joining the judging panel for the Hotel & Resort Innovation Expo sustainability award at Excel. The Hotel & Resort Innovation Expo is the UK’s leading business event dedicated to the hotel sector. Every year the show connects the industry’s most ambitions professionals with the […]
Date: 7th October Location: The Biltmore, Mayfair London As Sustainable Advisors to the TTG team, the TerraVerde team are attending the TTG Luxury Travel Summit and will be available to discuss any questions or concerns delegates have about their sustainability strategies. Find out more >
Recently, whilst attending the ‘Sustainable Communications’ workshop at TTG’s Fairer Travel Sustainability Forum, I was struck by the number of attendees who, when asked admitted that they had yet to adopt any sustainable practices into their own business. This is not the first time we have encountered people focussing on communications before taking real action. Travel […]
Date: Thursday 7 July Location: PWC, Embankment London Marina Bradford & Patrick Richards take to the stage to discuss Sustainability strategy 101, while Chris Fraser will be running a workshop on Decarbonising your Business Sustainability strategy 101 Reducing your carbon footprint is just one aspect of a comprehensive sustainability strategy. TTG’s sustainability advisers TerraVerde share […]
As the conversation around sustainability grows, especially with the issue now firmly on the government’s agenda, so too does our vocabulary – and while many of the terms sound similar, there is science behind each definition. Too often the wrong terminology is being used, either by accident or design. While using headline-grabbing sustainability terms may be […]
Did you know that a passenger on a one-week Antarctic cruise, causes as much CO2 to be released as the average European over the course of a year? Or, that the total amount of rubbish produced by a ship carrying 2,700 passengers can exceed a ton a day? And, an overnight stay on the average cruise ship requires 12 […]
Transport for London is expanding the number of zero-emission buses across the city, with its latest fleet of all-electric ultra-modern vehicles. The buses have been created to include a number of features designed to make the service more attractive to commuters: · New digital signage, with real-time information including the time to the next stop, disruptions and service […]
Justin Francis, the CEO of Responsible Travel thinks it can: “There is no reason why mainstream tourism cannot be as sustainable as niche tourism – in fact in some ways it could be more so. Densely planned accommodation in resorts can be more efficient in terms of waste, water and energy while limiting the impacts of over-tourism. […]
The Travel Positive initiative by Pura Aventura is a shining example of how travel can be a powerful force for good. Supporting communities overseas by working directly with local guides whilst providing an ambitious carbon mitigation plan: “For every kilometre you travel with us by air, road and sea on our holidays, from your front door and […]
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