Continued from page 88 What about flying? He says:
“We’re grappling with that, as is the whole industry. It’s not easy. We encourage travellers to take one long trip, to look at offseting and also at how oſten they fly. We believe offsets are a viable way to deal with this. [But] it’s about going beyond offseting. We’ve been carbon neutral since 2010, measuring the carbon we produce. But we hadn’t done much reduction.” Barnes stressed the importance
of B Corporation certification, adding: “It’s accreditation that your business is a force for good. It’s a prety tough audit – it took three years – with a focus on the supply chain, staff, communities, the environment and customers. It goes deep into the supply chain and also into your governance.” He acknowledges the process
threw up “a few surprises”, saying: “We weren’t measuring enough and recording, quantifying and understanding our impacts. It certainly benefited the company. We do more in the communities we operate from now, and we realised we weren’t doing enough around the environment.” Barnes’ unusual job title has
atracted interest from other businesses. He says: “I didn’t expect the amount of time I would spend speaking to other organisations about the role. Te role is to
ensure we have a positive impact.” O Intrepid is also urging industry partners to support the global Climate Strike on Friday (September 20). Chief executive James Tornton said “change is happening too slowly” and his team has contacted agent partners to encourage them to take part in the day of action taking place in 120 countries three days before the United Nations summit in New York. Intrepid will close its Melbourne head office for the day.
Brexit: travel firms shoul Travel legal expert Rhys Griffiths outlines the issues with cross-border selling,
Travel companies again face uncertainty as we approach October 31 as to whether the UK will leave the EU at 11pm on Halloween. We have been here before – twice
in fact – but on each occasion one had the feeling that there would be some form of postponement and, indeed, there was. We are in the same position again, albeit now with a prime minister driven to take the UK out of the EU on October 31, “no ifs, no buts”. What did we learn before? Many
travel companies had prepared for a hard Brexit on March 29 and again on April 12 because they simply could not afford to take the risk of not being ready. In particular, those travel
companies selling to EU consumers from a UK establishment could not afford to adopt a ‘wait and see’ approach in the hope that Brexit would be delayed. Tese companies had to have contingency plans in place such that, at 11pm on March 29 and on April 12, they were ready to press the buton so that Plan B took effect and they were able to continue trading in the EU. If it comes down to the wire again,
or if we leave the EU this time, what should travel companies be doing?
What are the legal issues? Travel companies are particularly vulnerable to the potential consequences of a hard Brexit. Customers may face travel disruption caused by delays in passing through ports and airports or unfamiliar new paperwork requirements causing problems on holiday – such as the requirement for international driving permits for car hire on holiday.
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companies also cross borders – coming from the EU to work in the UK and vice versa to work in resort. Tese arrangements need to continue aſter Brexit. For UK travel companies that sell
to customers in other EU markets, a hard Brexit will give rise to a critical problem in terms of their compliance with the EU Package Travel Directive (PTD). Under existing arrangements, UK travel companies may rely upon the
insolvency protection arrangements they have made in the UK when they sell packages and Linked Travel Arrangements to consumers in other markets. For example, UK travel companies will use the Atol scheme to sell flight-inclusive packages to customers in, say, Ireland and the Irish regulator has to accept these arrangements. Upon a ‘hard’ or no-deal Brexit,
the UK will become a ‘third country’ for the purposes of the PTD, like any other non-EU country. As a
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