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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 14, 2025
Intrepid | The Business of Better: How B Corp Certification Drives Success
A short case study by Intrepid Travel highlighting the many benefits of B Corp certification - from financial gains and increased brand reputation, to preparing for regulatory compliance and having a lasting positive impact on people and places.
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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 1, 2025
World Economic Forum Report: Four Scenarios for the Future of Travel and Tourism
A World Economic Forum (WEF) report identifying four diverse scenarios for the future of travel and tourism in 2030. It helps tourism stakeholders understand the evolving environment, providing a framework for planning.
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May 8, 2025
ETC: A Destination’s Guide to the NEW EU Sustainability Regulations
A new guide by the European Travel Commission and GDS-Movement to help destinations navigate compliance with upcoming EU sustainability regulations - The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (ECGTD) and the Green Claims Directive (GCD) - alongside steps destinations can take to comply, manage risk, and leverage opportunities.
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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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May 7, 2025
WTTC Report: Social Impact of Global Tourism
A WTTC report that presents a range of data conveying the extent to which the travel and tourism sector provides a pathway into employment for younger workers around the world, the importance of women to the sector, and the growth of travel and tourism in supporting high wage employment.
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April 23, 2025
TerraVerde on UK Travel Companies and Sustainability
Article from ETOA Climate Action Partner, TerraVerde on the top 50 UK travel companies and how they measure up against key sustainability markers.
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December 16, 2024
TerraVerde on Overcoming Anti-tourism Resentment
Article from ETOA Climate Action Partner, TerraVerde on the causes of anti-tourism resentment and potential sustainable solutions to overcome it.
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September 27, 2024
OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2024
The 2024 edition of OECD's Tourism Trends and Policies report, setting out tourism trends and top policy priorities to promote sustainable development through tourism.
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June 17, 2024
World Economic Forum Travel & Tourism Development Index May 2024
The latest iteration of the WEF Travel & Tourism Development Index (the successor of its Competitiveness Index) shines a light on a raft of measures that help to describe the performance of nations around the world when it comes to factors and policies that enable the sustainable and resilient development of Travel & Tourism.
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June 13, 2024
TerraVerde on Green Claims Code and Greenwashing
Article from ETOA Climate Action Partner, TerraVerde on green claims and greenwashing.
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June 13, 2024
TerraVerde on Risks and Solutions for Climate Change in Tourism
Article from ETOA Climate Action Partner, TerraVerde on the impacts of climate change, and the strategies travel providers can employ to mitigate risks.
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April 19, 2024
ETC – Climate Change and Tourism in Europe
A valuable analysis that covers the role of climate change in travel, what travellers are saying about the subject, the extent to which sustainability gets a mention in traveller reviews and the potential future for travel amidst ongoing climate change.
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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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January 19, 2024
ETOA Webinar | VIVA – Sourcing sustainable tourism
VIVA - Sourcing sustainable tourism.
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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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November 13, 2023
Data Appeal: Data-Driven Sustainable Strategies, The DMO Handbook
A free handbook from our partners at Data Appeal, exploring how destinations can champion responsible travel through the strategic use of data.
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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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August 17, 2023
Tootbus Study: Attitudes to Sustainable City Breaks 2023
A study from ETOA member, Tootbus, asking travellers in France, Belgium and the UK what type of city break they prefer, their perceptions of sustainable city breaks and the impact of inflation on these perceptions.
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August 17, 2023
CELTH Research: Strategies for Sustainable Events
A study that brings together a range of research evidence gathered at festivals in the Netherlands with a focus on ways of reducing the amount of waste generated and the extent to which waste might lessen the visitor experience.
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May 23, 2023
UNWTO Experiences in measuring the sustainability of tourism
The report sets out to provide a synopsis for policymakers based on the findings of a series of eleven pilot studies in different destinations around the world focussed on measuring the sustainability of tourism.
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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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May 23, 2022
WTTC: Destination 2030
A substantial report that brings together a host of indicators across multiple pillars to examine the readiness of 63 destinations around the world for sustainable travel and tourism growth between now and 2030, including the showcasing of examples of policies and strategies being implemented in different cities to underpin success.
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April 26, 2022
Expedia sustainable travel study
A report detailing findings from a survey of 11,000 consumers from around the world investigating attitudes towards sustainable travel, what motivates consumers to make sustainable choices and their (stated) willingness to pay more to make their travel decisions more sustainable.
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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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October 19, 2021
ETC Handbook: Encouraging Sustainable Tourism Practices
A detailed synopsis that explores what sustainable tourism is, why it is important and what destinations and businesses around the world are doing to encourage its adoption. The centrepiece of the report consists of twenty case studies, but perhaps of equal value are the chapters bookending these case studies which help the reader develop a better understanding sustainable tourism and consider the many challenges faced by entities wishing to adopt such practices.
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June 14, 2021
Behavioural Economics: Encouraging sustainable choices | BehaviorSMART, Harvard & WTTC
A report by Harvard, WTTC and ETOA's Sustainability Partner, BehaviorSMART, on the science of behavioural economics and how to frame sustainability as the easy choice.
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March 17, 2021
ETC Sustainable Tourism Toolkit
A comprehensive document aimed at European NTOs to help guide their creation and implementation of sustainable tourism strategies.
While much of the 53-page handbook is dedicated to a series of modules that guide practitioners in their work it also contains helpful sections that introduce the importance of sustainability within the tourism sector, the benefits of developing a national approach and a recognition of the many challenges that can hamper progress.
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January 11, 2021
Group NAO Tourism Taxes by Design
A detailed study that came about on the back of an ever-growing number of tourism taxes but coincided with the dramatic decline in tourism flows due to the pandemic.
The research is wide-ranging, looking at examples of different forms of tourism tax, the wide range of rationales used for their introduction, the evidence about their effectiveness and an analysis of how tourism taxes can be introduced in a way that is underpinned by stakeholder support and consumer willingness to pay.
Findings from an extensive survey of DMOs is also included, revealing the significant funding shortfalls that many currently face.
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August 10, 2020
Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership – Climate Change: Implications for Tourism
A report that succeeds in its task of making the IPCC Assessment Report findings much more digestible to the layperson within the tourism sector, describing the scale of likely impact that climate change will have as well as setting out some of the adaptations and mitigation measures that could help deliver a more resilient industry. The report includes a helpful two-page infographic looking at various tourism sub-sectors.
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August 10, 2020
Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership – Rewiring the Economy: Ten Tasks, Ten Years
A report from 2017 that put forward ten tasks to be carried out within a decade by leaders in the fields of government, finance and business, with the aspiration being to ensure economic development benefits rather than harms broader needs such as healthy ecosystems, climate stability and wellbeing.
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August 10, 2020
Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership – Working towards a climate neutral Europe: Jobs and skills in a changing world
A discussion relating to how the interplay between megatrends such as demographic and technological change and ongoing policy development to bring about a climate neutral European economy will likely shape the job market, and the skillsets needed by workers, across Europe over the next three decades. While a number of ‘case studies’ are presented none of these relate directly to the travel or tourism sector.
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Interactive Climate Maps by Probable Futures