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responsible travel edition
NEWS Hot Stories
Brexit could be ‘catastrophe’ for sector; Travelport to bypass GDS surcharges; Movies and TV shows boost bookings; Certification drives savings for hotels; Travel Counsellors’ sustainability initiative
News
Special Report
Day in the Life
Destinations Business
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6 Round-up 10 12-15 Comment 28 32
Round-up Funway Holidays, Thomas Cook, Neilson 08 Intrepid Travel, G Adventures
Special Report The Travel Foundation develops tool Tui: Better Holidays, Better World
Talk Back
Thomas Cook/SeaWorld, passport queues, Jet2, discounted lates
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Destination NSW, Silversea
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Operator Wendy Wu, First Class Holidays 20 Cruise Scenic, Crystal
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FRONTLINE Comment Andrew Flintham, Tui
Day in the Life Jerome Dubrocard A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
We’re making good progress T
he need for action on sustainability could hardly be sharper as wildfires wreak havoc in destinations from
Portugal to California and scientists warn of worse to come from global warming. So it’s heartening to hear of progress in the industry, with
Travel Counsellors revealing a major programme of work on sustainability with The Travel Foundation (page 6).” This could prove a defining project for the independent agents’ sector, which, until now, has had to rely on a handful of tour operators to identify sustainable hotels or lead the way on developing sustainable excursions. I look forward to hearing more from Travel Counsellors and seeing more from agents’ consortia in keeping with the great strides made by Tui in this area. The Tui Group is again responsible for many of the highlights in this special issue on sustainable tourism, having set out – as sustainability director Jane Ashton says – “to create a sea change across the leisure tourism sector”. We report on Tui’s confirmation of the positive impact
of hotel sustainability certification (page 6), the latest certification achieved by Intrepid (page 10), The Travel Foundation’s most-recent destination project and training for agents (page 12), and the latest initiatives by Tui and the Tui Care Foundation (pages 14-15), with a feature on the Tui Academy (page 40). Intrepid co-founder Darrell Wade and The
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Competitions Win a training trip to Rio 27 Mystery Shopper Stoke-on-Trent
38 DESTINATIONS
Responsible Tourism Dominican Republic: Tui Academy
SPOTLIGHT Destination NSW and Qantas team up with Travel Weekly on ‘Send me to Sydney’ campaign
page 27 40 What’s next?: Discover the next hot topic 45
Indian Ocean Villas: Eight of the best secluded escapes 50 Sri Lanka & the Maldives: Perfect pairing 55
BUSINESS
The Travel Foundation roundtable Industry leaders debate overtourism
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LUCY DID THISWEEK
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Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
Was interviewed for one of Clia’s new podcasts about being godmother to Azamara Pursuit. Just over two weeks until I christen her!
Had great meetings with a leading flag- carrier and a big destination association. Lots of exciting plans in the pipeline.
Made a Viking longboat costume – for a pony! – for the fancy-dress class at my daughter’s summer horse show. Harder than you’d think!
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Travel Foundation’s Salli Felton also joined David Dingle of Carnival UK, Adam Goldstein of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Chris Lehane of Airbnb and Matthew Upchurch of luxury travel network Virtuoso to debate growing concerns about over-tourism (back pages). I hope you enjoy this edition – focusing on a very important issue.
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