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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 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
B Corp: Free Introduction
A free, online, on-demand introductory course to the B Corp movement by B Lab Europe and B Lab UK.
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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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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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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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June 27, 2022
ETOA Snapshot | Sustainability travel intent versus actual behaviour
Ten minute video session with Rachel Read and David Edwards on traveller intentions versus their actual behaviour around suitable travel products, and the barriers between the two.
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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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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