New Zealand Tourism Sustainability Commitment news, including media releases, and articles about tourism businesses putting the Commitments into action.
A new online programme to enable tourism businesses has been launched by the tourism industry’s leading representative body.
The results are in for the 2023 TSC Annual Declaration.
A brand-new initiative to encourage the Coastal Bay of Plenty’s visitor sector to work towards a zero carbon and regenerative future has launched in Bowentown.
Last year, WellingtonNZ chose to work with Tourism Industry Aotearoa on a pilot project for 12 tourism operators to accelerate their sustainability journeys. This work activated our Tourism Sustainability Commitment (TSC), allowing us to learn some valuable lessons and confirm prior hunches.
The Tourism Carbon Challenge urges every tourism business to measure its carbon footprint, to take action to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030, and contribute to a tourism industry that is net zero carbon ahead of New Zealand’s 2050 goal.
TIA and Wellington NZ recently celebrated the successful completion of a Sustainable Tourism programme which supported 12 Wellington tourism businesses to apply the Tourism Sustainability Commitment within their operations.
The Tourism Sustainability Commitment has won the 2021 Skål International Sustainable Tourism Award.
TIA has been appointed as the provider for the Sustainable Tourism pilot programme.
Toitu Envirocare has produced a range of webinars designed to get businesses started in their sustainability journey.
Follow TIA on our journey to achieve the 12 Business Sustainability Commitments.
TIA and Toitū Envirocare (formerly Enviro-Mark Solutions) have partnered up to help tourism businesses measure their carbon footprint
RefillNZ has come up with a solution to tackle Aotearoa's single-use plastic bottle problem.
Swedish academic and sustainable tourism specialist Stefan Gössling on tourism and its climate impacts spoke at the inaugural Tourism Policy School in Queenstown in 2019. He gave a short, sharp scientific appraisal of tourism and its climate impacts. Stefan is a professor at the Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics and Lund University's Department of Service Management.
22 April 2019 A group of Auckland operators who were early adopters of the Tourism Sustainability Commitment and have been strong supporters, both in taking action and inspiring others, got together recently to talk sustainability. Everyone involved found the meeting very useful and it will be interesting to see how it evolves. TIA is keen to support similar regional or sector groups to get started.
8 April 2019 The top 10 sustainability questions to ask your suppliers… before your customers ask you.
