Blueprint for Tourism Climate Action
Wherever you are in developing your response to the climate emergency, these resources will support your journey to Net Zero
The Glasgow Declaration for a Decade of Climate Action in Tourism
Description: The Glasgow Declaration provides a unifying framework and commitment for the entire industry to gather around, focusing on five key pathways that all Climate Action Plans should follow: Measure, Decarbonise, Regenerate, Collaborate, Finance.
Useful for: Building on Tourism Declares’ original framework, the Declaration is designed to enable all travel and tourism stakeholders to sign and demonstrate, for the first time as a united sector, a shared voice and commitment to aligning the sector’s climate ambitions with scientific recommendations and international agreements.
FAQs - Addressing 30 of the most common questions around the Glasgow Declaration, from setting a baseline year to the definition of Net Zero
Information Sessions - two webinars providing an online introduction to the Glasgow Declaration
Recommended Actions for Climate Action
Categorised according to the five pathways of the Glasgow Declaration, and filtered to make clear which stakeholders they are most applicable to, these actions provide expert guidance on what actions Climate Action Plans might contain.
Useful for: Anyone looking to develop Climate Action Plans, and probably most useful for destinations, suppoting organisations, corporations, public sector bodies.
Best Practice Examples and Case Studies
For Tour Operators
For Accommodation Providers
For Destinations
Description: Created by the Tourism Declares volunteer team, these ever-growing collections gather together examples from around the world of companies, organisations and destinations delivering creative and effective approaches to decarbonisation.
Useful for: Tour Operators, Accommodation Providers, Destinations, and anyone who works with them and looking to connect to the best to strengthen their own supply chain
Measurement Methodologies
1: Net Zero for Accommodation
Description: Designed by Greenview, with a steering committee including Tourism Declares, WTTC, Sustainable Hospitlaity Alliance and PATA, this is the first methodology to provide guidance for all accommodation providers as to how to reach Net Zero
Useful For: Anyone involved in the accommodation sector, from hoteliers to asset owners
2: Science Based Targets for Tour Operators
Description: Having become the first Tour Operator to achieve an accredited Science Based Target, Intrepid Travel has worked with consultancy form NDevr and Tourism Declares to create an open source version of its methodology.
Useful For: Tour Operators, in particular those who, like Intrepid, are asset light, meaning they don’t own the buses, ships and properties their trips use.
Net Zero Roadmap for Tourism
Description: Created by WTTC, Accenture and UNEP, these roadmaps lay out four pathways for different parts of tourism to reach Net Zero before 2050
Useful for: Accommodation Providers, OTAs, Cruise, Tour Operators
Global Survey of Climate Action in Tourism
Description: Conducted across several months in 2021, This is the most extensive global survey of Climate Action for our industry yet. led in UNWTO in collaboration with UNFCCC, it was supported by Tourism Declares, the Adventure Travel Trade Association, and the Universities of San Francisco State and Texas AM
Useful For: Anyone wanting to learn where the industry is and where the knowledge and action gaps are
Science Based Targets webinars
5 webinars (4 on Science Based Targets and 1 on Net Zero), seek to demystify these topics, explaining their relevance for accommodation providers, tour operators and other stakeholders in tourism
Useful For: Anyone looking to set meaningful targets for their business
Introducing Tourism Declares Discovery Sessions
Drop into our monthly webinars, hosted by signatories and volunteers, to answer any questions, share their experiences, and help you see if you would like to join our growing community
Useful For: Anyone who hasn’t yet started on climate action
Other Useful Resources
Hotel Footprinting Tool: where users can estimate the carbon footprint of a hotel stay and meeting anywhere in the world
Global Tourism Plastics Initiative: One Planet Network led framework, tools and resources enablin businesses, governments, and other tourism stakeholders to take concerted action, leading by example in the shift towards circularity in the use of plastics.
Net Zero Carbon Events Initiative - an industry wide movement to encourage and support the events sector to become net-zero.