THE HIGHLIGHTS EDUCATION


Supporting action Last year, we launched six new tools to help travel companies take action, bringing the total to over 40. Our new tools include: – Caribbean insider guides for holidaymakers;


– How to write a sustainable tourism policy;


– How to run your own water and energy project;


– Steps to a greener business for tour operators;


– How to make your holiday greener – a guide for holidaymakers.


We’ve created a new online training manual for whale shark watching guides, which aims to improve the quality of tours and protect these endangered animals.


Spreading the word Our first national consumer awareness campaign, Make Holidays Greener Week, united travel companies in a call for holidaymakers to make a difference to their favourite destinations. The Sun turned their travel pages green to launch the week and the Travel Foundation received coverage on 26 regional radio stations.


We launched a new partnership with the Travel Trade Gazette, for a series of Green Think Tank events, designed to share ideas and best practice in sustainability.


Around 100 stakeholders joined us for our annual meeting in June to hear about our work. A highlight of the meeting was an inspirational talk from M&S on their leading sustainability programme.


Volunteering enables individuals to experience sustainability initiatives first hand whilst also enabling them to bring their own skills to a project. To date, over 40 individuals have taken part in our programme. Volunteers from TUI’s ‘Project Discovery’ have helped on projects every year since 2006 and in 2010 eight TUI volunteers supported initiatives in Mexico, Morocco and Crete.


Thanks to sponsorship from Thomas Cook, we’ve enabled five young women from rural Turkey to study tourism at university. The women will complete their final year in 2011.


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