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Our vision is a world where tourism provides the greatest benefits for destinations, so that their communities and environments can thrive.

on. We help tourism companies, destination authorities and community groups to work together to transform the way that tourism is planned and managed. And we support our partners to embrace new, sustainable ways of working within their organisations and across destinations, with measurable results.

27/02/2025

As social media changes and grows, we've decided to move away from posting on Facebook. Though we've enjoyed our time here and we'll keep this account live for people to access old posts, we won't continue to update it.

Thank you to everyone who's followed us and engaged with our Facebook posts over the years - we hope you've found it useful to see our feed of sustainable travel insight!

You can still find us on Bluesky, LinkedIn and, for now, X (Twitter):

https://buff.ly/4kiJWXl (we're .bsky.social)
https://buff.ly/3XUpFvg (search 'The Travel Foundation')
https://buff.ly/41xlcDz (we're )

15/01/2025

Have you read any inspirational or thought-provoking travel articles lately?

These are some of the ones shared by some of our team:

Tokyo resident Dylan Levi King writes about how Tokyo has changed due to 'tourism pollution' - https://buff.ly/40DgjHB

Katie Couric explores ecotourism and how to check if your nature spotting trip is ethical - https://buff.ly/3Wfp9cY

The UN Environment Program covers ecotourism and conservation in Albania - https://buff.ly/4ja1Efc

08/01/2025

Great to see that Skift and Intrepid Travel have partnered on a Climate Hub, where a dedicated journalist will report on sustainability in the travel industry, and look beyond greenwashing:

https://buff.ly/4h85XWw

03/01/2025

The World Travel and Tourism Council has listed 14 ways you can travel more responsibly and purposefully. These are all easy to incorporate into travel plans:

https://buff.ly/4iTEtFQ

31/12/2024

Some more of our favourite features in the past year...

The World Economic Forum highlighted our work with VisitScotland to protect the environment, share ideas and decarbonise:
https://buff.ly/3W19pdk

The New York Times explored how the travel industry is tackling its carbon footprint, and spoke to our CEO, Jeremy Sampson:
https://buff.ly/3UZcNFj

Elke Dens, our Destinations Specialist, spoke to Inverse as part of a feature on VR in travel:
https://buff.ly/49YbnB6

20/12/2024

We're looking back at some of our media highlights from this year, starting with this BBC Travel feature on a summer of tourism tension and why things have got to change:

https://buff.ly/3N8vkKN

Our CEO, Jeremy Sampson, spoke to the BBC about overtourism and the future of travel.

19/12/2024

We've summarised the year in sustainable tourism, from Climate Action Plans and resilience to events like ITB and COP29:

https://buff.ly/3ZV93aF

17/12/2024

Read all about how we worked with Travel Counsellors to help them create custom itineraries that have a positive impact on communities:

https://buff.ly/3BnyisV

The itineraries offered as Enriching Escapes focus on local culture, experiences and people.

28/11/2024

If you struggle with new ways to promote your travel brand or destination's sustainability and ethics, these upcoming awareness days could inspire your next post or video:

3 December – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
5 December – International Volunteers Day
7 December – International Civil Aviation Day

Image credit: Disabled and Here

22/11/2024

The Long Run's Virtual Impact Show is well worth making time for if you missed it live:

- 12 hours of compelling stories that drive change for people and nature.
- A round-up of 12 practical talking points to take away, including infrastructure investment and financing conservation.
- Encouraging travellers to 'go slow' and look to change the system.

https://buff.ly/4fqvVnL

21/11/2024

The New York Times spoke to key travel industry figures, including our CEO, for a feature on COP29's tourism day:

https://buff.ly/3UZcNFj

Find out why Jeremy Sampson says we've made "significant progress" in tackling the climate crisis in tourism.

20/11/2024

Our CEO, Jeremy Sampson, appeared on a tourism industry panel* at COP29 today, as the COP agenda turned to focus on the travel industry.

It's great news that more than 50 countries have signed an endorsement, the Baku Declaration on Enhanced Action in Tourism, to promote sustainable travel. This endorsement involves:

- Preserving ecosystems
- Linking tourism to environmental policy
- Reducing emissions
- Sustainability as a way of being more resilient and competitive

The Baku Declaration also been supported by a range of travel industry organisations, like the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of UN Tourism, called it "a key turning point for our sector" that tourism has been included on the COP29 agenda. This leads to sustainable tourism being given more attention by the media and policymakers than ever before.

* = Jeremy Sampson was a panellist at the High Level Roundtable 2: Raising the Climate Ambition of the Tourism Sector – from commitments to implementation (regeneration/adaptation and finance).

Image credit: Matthew Ten Bruggencate, via Unsplash.

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We work in partnership with leading tourism organisations to improve the impacts of tourism in destinations – bringing greater benefits for local communities, the environment and tourists. We design and deliver tailor-made sustainable tourism programmes that enable our partners to maximise the benefits and minimise the negative impacts of tourism, depending on the individual needs of the destination. We help tourism companies, destination authorities and community groups to work together to transform the way that tourism is planned and managed. And we support our partners to embrace new, sustainable ways of working within their organisations and across destinations, with measurable results.