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New tourism sustainability and resilience program for British Columbia 
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We are an international sustainable tourism organisation

dedicated to ensuring that tourism has a positive impact on destinations.

Jeremy Sampson

“Destinations are everyone’s business – they are the enterprises, the communal spaces, the public infrastructure, the culture and history, and the people that we all rely on, and protecting them for the long-haul must be a shared responsibility and industry priority.”

Jeremy Sampson, Travel Foundation CEO

Making a positive impact

Take a look at the latest destinations where our work is changing the impact of tourism

Sustainability and resilience planning in British Columbia

We're providing training and mentoring opportunities to BC destinations with the aim of supporting a thriving future for tourism across the province.    

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Destination Stewardship Planning

We support Destination Management Organisations to answer some of the big questions about how tourism can best deliver both quality experiences for visitors and quality of life for residents, enabling them to create stronger, sustainable plans.

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Promoting low carbon travel in Gloucestershire and beyond

We're supporting GCRP to promote rail travel in Gloucestershire (UK) to showcase the potential impact and role of community rail partnerships for tourism.

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Decarbonising the Value Chain

Working with a major tour operator (The Travel Corporation) and a destination (Scotland) the Travel Foundation is developing a structured and facilitated process to better understand a company’s emissions at the destination level, and creating a collaborative action plan to reduce and avoid them.

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Roadmap to Destination Stewardship

In collaboration with easyJet holidays, we will bring together private, public and local community representation to establish a common set of priorities for tourism management and long-term resilience following the COVID-19 pandemic in five destinations.

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Big up Small Business

We're creating new opportunities for small business entrepreneurs in Jamaica, so that more people can benefit from tourism.

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Flavours from the Fields

TUI Care Foundation is helping rural communities in Turkey to benefit from tourism by selling locally made products to hotels, restaurants and gift shops.

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Read about the work we are doing with the communities, protecting the environment and raising awareness in the tourism industry.

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Four questions destinations should ask about tourism

Many DMOs are looking towards a new model of tourism management to build a more resilient and equitable future for the industry and one that, above all, benefits place and...

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Travel Foundation and Expedia Group set to launch climate training program for destinations 

The Travel Foundation and Expedia Group are working together to launch a first-of-its kind capacity-building program for DMOs on climate action.

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News

New tourism sustainability and resilience program for British Columbia 

We're providing training and mentoring opportunities to BC destinations with the aim of supporting a thriving future for tourism across the province.

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