Targeting our product development towards sustainability and future viability is a key part of our work. Consumers are increasingly basing their decision on what to buy on the perceived ecological and social responsibility of companies.
Current examples
- In Cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, TUI deveolped a souvenir guidebook. So as to raise the awareness, "Der kleine TUI Artenschützer" (The Small TUI Species Protector) informs TUI customers in the destinations about prohibited souvenirs from endangered species and gives advice on buying alternative fair souvenirs, which in addition promote the local economy over the long term.
- By the "Volunteering" travel offering from i-to-i Travel customers can combine travel experience with voluntary social commitment. Locals in more than 20 destinations organise environmental and community projects that our customers can support on site by providing their manpower.
More at http://www.volunteer-reisen.de/ - In cooperation with dhe Global Nature Fund (GNF) an environmental excursion was planned. The excursion in Sri Lanka takes participants to the Madampa Lake in the Ambalangoda region. In the training centre, visitors are given an introduction to the biodiversity in the lake and to diverse environmental and auxiliary programmes carried out by the local population.
More at http://www.globalnature.org - The British tour operator First Choice publshed for the first time in 2009 its "greener Holidays" brochure. The brochure, available to customers as a download, presents a collection of sustainable holiday offers by the company and above all includes hotels that are managed in an environmentally friendly way.
More at http://www.firstchoice.co.uk/greener-holidays/