09/21/2026
🌎 It's Climate Week. So, what can the travel industry do?
We know travel depends on healthy places, thriving communities, and a stable climate. We also know the challenges can feel enormous.
But climate action doesn't always have to start with an enormous commitment. It can start with the decisions we make every day.
This Climate Week, we encourage our industry to take a look at where you have influence and choose somewhere to begin.
🌿 Look at your supply chain. Where can you source locally, reduce waste, or choose partners with stronger environmental practices?
✈️ Look at your products and itineraries. Can you encourage longer stays, introduce travelers to less-visited places, incorporate rail or other lower-impact transportation, or support experiences actively protecting nature?
🏨 Talk to your partners. Ask hotels, destinations, attractions, and suppliers what they're doing. Those conversations help signal that climate action matters to the businesses sending them travelers.
🌎 Support the people already doing the work. Seek out conservation organizations, community-led businesses, regenerative farms, protected areas, and other local partners working to make destinations more resilient.
📚 Keep learning. Climate action intersects with biodiversity, climate justice, food systems, community resilience, destination stewardship, and so much more. Understanding those connections helps us make better decisions.
And most importantly, start somewhere.
You don't need to solve climate change this week. But if every organization in our industry used Climate Week to ask one harder question, change one practice, or support one new local partner, imagine what we could move forward together.
