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In our media section you can access all of our press releases, along with a
selection of images from our programmes and events. Scroll down or click on the links below to access the press releases and use the links below to access some of our images.
If you are a member of the media and wish to enquire about any of our activities, please contact our PR Manager David Weston at david.weston@thetravelfoundation.org.uk or Hazel Stinson at bgb Communications on hstinson@bgb.co.uk or +44 (0) 20 7902 2990.
Press Releases
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2008 Press Releases
March
The Travel Foundation showcases its sustainable tourism projects in
November
Travel Industry Set To Tackle Green Issues With New Training Tools. The Travel Foundation launches ABTA-approved training for Operators and Agents at Travel Convention
Sustainable travel charity to assist Moroccan government in delivering responsible tourism blueprint. The Moroccan National Tourist Office (MNTO) today signs an agreement with the Travel Foundation as part of its blueprint for developing Morocco as a sustainable tourist destination. Introducing the World to the Communities of Thailand. The Travel Foundation launches new community tours programme in Thailand. The Travel Foundation has teamed up with the Thailand Community Based Tourism Institute (CBT-I) and supporting tour operators to pilot ten new community based tours in Thailand.
Caribbean region embraces sustainable tourism. The Travel Foundation announces extension of successful sustainable tourism initiatives across Caribbean
Travel systems supplier Comtec makes it simple for agents to support Travel Foundation donations. In response to demand from travel agents, sustainable travel charity The Travel Foundation has teamed up with Comtec, the travel systems supplier, to add the charity’s donation collecting scheme to their widely-used TravelCat Agency Management System.
October
The Travel Foundation launches new community tours programme in Thailand. The Travel Foundation has teamed up with the Thailand Community Based Tourism Institute (CBT-I) and supporting tour operators to pilot ten new community based tours in Thailand. Travel companies who are interested in taking part in the initiative can hear more at a meeting in London on eighth November. June
Sustainable travel charity The Travel Foundation seeks new Trustees.....click to open. The Travel Foundation asks hotel owners to take up Hotel Makeover Challenge and save up to 25% of energy costs and usage.The Travel Foundation is launching a campaign to encourage accommodation providers to be more sustainable. Up to 10,000 hotels across Spain, Turkey and Greece will be targeted with the campaign, which will offer owners information on how to save energy, source supplies locally and manage waste wisely. This draws on the FTO’s Supplier Sustainability Guidelines and an audit by the Foundation of three hotels against the FTO’s criteria. April
Kate Humble urges UK Tour Operators to help endangered turtles. TV broadcaster Kate Humble has teamed up with the Travel Foundation and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to urge UK tour operator representatives to encourage turtle-friendly tourist behaviour at Mediterranean holiday destinations.
March
The Travel Foundation, First Choice and Thomas Cook show industry way to saving enough inflight drinks cans to build two airliners. The Travel Foundation announced today the results of an innovative project run over the winter season by First Choice Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines and AENA (Spanish Airports and Air Navigation services operator) to recycle aluminium drinks cans used on British holiday aircraft flying to Spain. If the procedures unveiled today were put in place on all UK flights to Spain, it is estimated that 14 million drinks cans could be recycled, equivalent to 140 tonnes of aluminium.
January
Travel Industry argues for carbon guidelines to include smaller scale schemes. The Government must not undermine the travel industry's efforts on carbon emissions reduction or burden genuinely valuable projects with disproportionate regulatory costs, say industry representatives in a united response to the Government’s launch on Thursday of a consultation process on a “code of practice” for carbon offset schemes.
November
MyTravel to support Travel Foundation fund-raising scheme MyTravel has signed up to a fundraising scheme for UK charity The Travel Foundation. From January 2007 all MyTravel charter tour operator customers will be asked if they would like to make an opt out donation at the time of booking of 40p per person to the Travel Foundation to support sustainable tourism.
QUIDS IN!ITT hands charity raffle cheque to trade charity The Travel Foundation The trade has again demonstrated its huge support for the Travel Foundation, with ITT members digging deep and raising over £4,000 for the travel charity.
Cosmos Holidays backs The Travel Foundation as new fund-raising partner Cosmos Holidays is the latest tour operator to announce its commitment to sustainable tourism, by asking its customers to make a contribution to The Travel Foundation when booking a holiday.
Five villages unite to create Sustainable Maasai Village Tourism Experience - The Travel Foundation announces new project in Kenya Five Maasai villages in Kenya are the focus of The Travel Foundation’s new project in the Mara Triangle, a principal tourism area of the Masai Mara Game Reserve.
September
Revitalising hill villages in Cyprus: The Travel Foundation launches cultural self-drive itineraries in Cyprus The Travel Foundation and The Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative (CSTI), with the support of membership tour operator companies, is unveiling a new initiative – Cyprus Village Routes.
August
Agent Dawn wins a Travel Foundation holiday to Mexico! First Choice is delighted to announce that Dawn Hughes, Sales Consultant at the First Choice Holiday Hypermarket in Sutton Coldfield has won a holiday to Mexico as part of a company-wide incentive in conjunction with the Travel Foundation.
June
Go Green: Travellers urged to consider the environment Environment Minister Elliot Morley yesterday urged holidaymakers planning to travel abroad at Easter to reduce their effect on the environment.
The Travel Foundation works with MyTravel and First Choice to reach out with sustainable travel film Holidaymakers flying with MyTravel Airways this summer will be able to find out more about how they can support sustainable tourism, following the launch of The Travel Foundation’s new four-minute consumer film.
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