Welcome to Travel Gives Back

 

Travel Gives Back is TTG's 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

FHA seeks agents for quiz record attempt

Monday, November 30, 2009

Travel agents are being urged to take part in what is being billed as the "World’s Bigges...


Government reconsiders Caribbean APD

Monday, October 26, 2009

The government might exclude the Caribbean from the planned reform of Air Passenger Duty.The Caribbe...


Abta raises £50k for Benevolent fund

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Abta Benevolent Fund raised more than £50,000 at the Travel Convention in Barcelona. ...


How you can help Tourism Concern survive

Monday, October 19, 2009

Threatened charity Tourism Concern has launched an appeal for funds so it can continue its work moni...


Tourism Concern charity faces closure

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The charity Tourism Concern is facing closure unless it raises £40,000 in the next few weeks. ...


                                                                                               


See some of the industry heavyweights who are supporting our campaign already


Travel Foundation boss on what the industry can do to get involved


Watch Masai villagers explain how the industry is helping them


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 

 

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

 

TTG urged all our readers to sign up to our Fair Fares campaign by sending a letter to their local MP. We wanted the government to act fast to stop changes to Air Passenger Duty unfairly hurting developing tourist economies

 

See photos of Virgin Holidays' voluntourism fam trip to Kenya

 

To see a full-screen version of any of these pics, double click on the white arrow in the middle of the gallery, then click on the small icon in the bottom right of the feature, which looks like this: 

 

 

 

 

 

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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