Welcome to Travel Gives Back

 

TTG has launched Travel Gives Back – a campaign to show the world the good the industry does in destinations across the globe. Travel is constantly under attack for its environmental impact but it is rare to hear about how destinations, often developing countries, depend on it for their livelihoods. Travel Gives Back aims to redress the balance by giving the industry one place to shout about its achievements. read more

News

Co-op teams up with Travelife

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Co-operative Travel has become the latest company to sign up to the Travelife green initiative. ...

Responsibletravel becomes an agent

Monday, May 18, 2009

Responsibletravel.com will change part of its business model to start operating like a traditional t...

First Choice issues Greener Holidays range

Monday, April 20, 2009

First Choice will tomorrow unveil what it claims is the first mainstream brochure featuring only hot...

Tui's Mark Gardner runs marathons for FHA

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Mark Gardner, the managing director of Tui Travel’s sports tour specialist TeamlinkTravel, pla...

Take a Slumdog Millionaire holiday

Monday, February 23, 2009

A company organising volunteering is attempting to capitalise on the success of Slumdog Millionaire ...

                                                                                               

See some of the industry heavyweights who are supporting our campaign already
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Travel Foundation boss on what the industry can do to get involved
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Watch Masai villagers explain how the industry is helping them
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Resources

Travel Foundation

The industry’s sustainable tourism charity

Reduce my Footprint

A carbon reduction programme set up by Abta and Aito

Maketravelgreener.com

A quick guide to sustainable tourism for travel staff

Tourism 2023

Set up by Forum for the Future and backed by leading travel companies

Family Holiday Association

Helping deprived communities in the UK


Federation of Tour Operators

Has info and guidelines on best practice

Travelife

Sustainable tourism accreditation scheme

Just a Drop

Industry backed charity to provide safe water

Responsibletravel.com

Online agency with hundreds of holidays that give back to local people

International Centre for Responsible Tourism

A leading research centre

Tourism Concern

Independent charity aiming to ensure destination communities benefit from tourism

Voluntourism

A website listing holdays with volunteering opportunities

St Vincent and the Grenadines

Tourist board site featuring only suppliers employing local people and using local produce 

 

Join our campaign

Today we are urging all our readers to sign up to our Fair Fares campaign by sending a letter to their local MP. We want the government to act fast to stop changes to Air Passenger Duty unfairly hurting developing tourist economies
Read more

 

Big guns back campaign

TTG’s Fair Fares campaign to reform Air Passenger Duty so it does not unfairly hit developing countries has won top-level backing in the Caribbean
See more

 

Barbados fam trip

Operators and agents helped refurbish a school in a remote part of Barbados, during a fam trip organised by the island’s tourist board
Find out more

 

See photos of Virgin Holidays' voluntourism fam trip to Kenya

 

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Agent blog

Vanessa Parkinson was one of a group of agents who joined Virgin Holidays for a taste of volunteer tourism in Kenya. She says the experience changed her and other agents for ever.

Read her blog here

 

 

 


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