Tourism Impacts &
Sustainable Developments What is ABTA's role in promoting Responsible Tourism?

'Founded in 2003, the Travel Foundation is the travel industry's own charity, set up to respond to concerns over the sustainability of travel and tourism.

We are an independent UK charity which helps the travel industry understand, manage and take effective action on sustainable tourism.

We exist to protect and enhance the environment and improve the well-being of destination communities, as well as the holiday experience for visitors'.

The statement above clearly exaplains the role of the Travel Foundation.

http://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk

The Travel Foundation is involved in a range of projects and initiatives to support and promote sustainable tourism. Amongst these are:

• A range of video clips and DVD presentations
• Tools for tourism businesses
• Projects in a range of destinations

Video Clips and DVD Presentations

New social media such as You Tube is being used increasingly by organisations such as the Travel Foundation to communicate their ideas to other interested parties.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelFoundation1 Evidence Log 8 – The Travel Foundation

Choose one of the three clips provided from the link above, look at the clip and summarise its key points in the table in your evidence log.

Evidence Log 9 – Turtles in trouble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_Uf0vNh84

The link above will provide access to a training DVD called 'Turtles in Trouble. The DVD demonstrates how tourism businesses can work to ensure the protection of turtles which live in the Mediterranean Sea. A training script and handout can also be downloaded. After watching the DVD and downloading the materials, summarise the key points in your evidence log.

In a similar way to Travelife, the Travel Foundation provides a range of advice and guidance to travel and tourism businesses which are looking to become 'greener'.

One of these 'tools' explains to businesses how to write a sustainable tourism policy. Details of this can be found at the link below:

http://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/green_business_tools/sustainable_tourism_policy/writing_a_policy/

This tool not only provides guidance about developing sustainable tourism policies but provides examlpes from TUI and Thomas Cook.

Evidence Log 10 – Tools for the tourism business

Using information from the Thomas Cook Sustainability Report, summarise the achievements for the year under the headings in the table in your evidence log.

Projects

The Travel Foundation is involved in a range of projects to promote sustainable tourism in destinations throughout the world. These projects are divided by themes which relate to:

• Environment
• People and Livelihoods
• Industry practice

Information about the projects can be found at:

http://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/projects Full Screen