July 23, 2025
Carbon Neutral Coach Tours: Operational Challenges and Scalability
Case study from Leisuretime by Toureasy: "We set out to become the UK’s first carbon neutral coach tour operator - accessible, affordable, and inspiring change across the industry. From measuring full holiday emissions to trialling HVO fuel, we’re learning, adapting, and pushing forward, despite challenges, to make carbon neutral travel part of mainstream tourism."
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July 18, 2025
ETC | Climate Action Roadmap for National Tourism Organisations
A detailed climate action planning framework by the European Travel Commission to support NTOs looking to create climate action plans.
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July 18, 2025
Climate Action Planning Toolkit and Blueprint | CMPR & The Travel Foundation
A Climate Action Planning Toolkit and Blueprint to support destinations and other tourism organisations create and implement climate action plans.
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July 11, 2025
Climate Action: The Glasgow Declaration FAQs
An introduction to the Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism, and how to become a signatory.
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July 11, 2025
Regenerative, Community-focused Tourism: Our “Living” Sustainability Policy
A case study by GJ Travel: "With over 94 years of experience, GJ Travel wanted to better frame its long-standing values and evolve with purpose. Together with our entire staff, we developed a company-wide sustainability policy and created Workshop on Wheels, a regenerative travel concept connecting guests with local communities through learning, hands-on action, and lasting impact."
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July 9, 2025
Bus Fleet Decarbonisation: A City-by-City Approach
A case study by Big Bus Tours: "We developed a multi-layered approach to cut emissions, combining monthly carbon tracking, electric bus conversions, renewable energy sourcing, and targeted HVO use. This allowed us to focus on high-impact cities, balance long-term investments with immediate actions, and engage landlords to explore renewable energy options for depots and offices."
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May 7, 2025
WTTC | Scaling up Sustainable Fuel: Engagement Framework
A framework by the WTTC and ICF to empower travel and tourism stakeholders to engage with decarbonisation through sustainable fuels. Providing guidance for stakeholders, it aims to address the gap between demand for sustainable fuels and limited supply.
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February 15, 2024
Intrepid | Carbon labels and calculating trip emissions
Intrepid shares an open source guide for travel and tourism businesses to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions generated from trips and create carbon labels to present the information to customers, based on Intrepid's trip emissions methodology.
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December 20, 2023
IRU Intelligence Briefing: IRU Green Compact
Almost all tourism journeys feature the use of a road vehicle at some point, whether that’s a hire car, taxi, or travel by coach – this study examines ways in which Europe can fulfil its ambition of making road traffic (including commercial vehicles) carbon neutral by 2050.
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August 17, 2023
Envisioning Tourism in 2030 and Beyond: The changing shape of tourism in a decarbonising world
The study describes a scenario under which the tourism sector could achieve decarbonisation, highlighting that this will entail a dramatic change in travel behaviours if overall trip volume growth is to continue at its historic rate, with shifts in the distance people travel and the modes of transport that they use.
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May 23, 2023
WTTC Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Opportunities and Implications for Tourism Destinations
A report which at its heart is making the case for the public and private sectors to focus on developing Sustainable Aviation Fuels that will allow the sector to decarbonise without the need for governments to introduce policies aimed at curbing the extent to which individuals can choose to fly.
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March 15, 2023
Decarbonising coach transport in the UK | Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Two reports by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) on the decarbonisation of the coach transport sector. They detail the challenges faced by operators and list potential solutions to help the sector transition towards zero-emission vehicles.
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January 31, 2023
ETOA Webinar | Tourism in 2030: tough choices ahead
The climate emergency is forcing change, and creates new dilemmas for government. When they look at their economy’s overall carbon footprint, which sectors will have more time to transition, and which must accept stricter controls to keep overall emissions within legally binding commitments?
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May 3, 2022
ETOA Webinar | Climate action and tourism: turning plans into practice
Watch this practical discussion about the travel industry and climate action with a panel of experts on carbon reduction, sectoral advocacy and consultancy. They provide current insight into what organisations of all sizes can do, and talk through the challenges and opportunities as plans turn into action.
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November 22, 2021
WTTC: A Net Zero Roadmap for Travel and Tourism
A 59-page report which serves to describe a potential new target framework for the travel and tourism sector in its journey towards becoming ‘net zero’. The report describes the current status quo with regards to the transition to net zero before setting out a target-based way forward and a call to action addressed towards key stakeholders from accommodation, tour operators, aviation, cruise and online travel agencies.
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