The Conscious Questions we should all be asking – and be prepping to answer
The Conscious Travel Foundation, Weeva and BOUTECO launched Conscious Questions, a resource for tourism businesses. This open-sourced list of questions acts as an easy-to-follow essential tool for professionals in the travel industry providing all the questions we should be asking and be prepared to answer – encouraging all to be inquisitive, stay curious, and keep asking more questions about sustainability.
The guide poses a series of thought-provoking questions and the rationale behind them to support travel agents and representatives in seeking a deeper understanding of holistic sustainability – converting in turn, to more responsible trips. The guide is broken down into seven impact categories: Environment, Economy, Conservation, Culture & Heritage, Community, Accessibility & Inclusion, Measurement & Data.
“We chose these key areas of measurable impact, in line with The Conscious Travel Foundation’s holistic approach to positive impact tourism,” says Maudie Tomlinson, Director of The Conscious Travel Foundation.
Accommodation providers will find these insights into the types of questions the trade will increasingly be asking especially helpful in light of the new directives and governance coming into play, such as with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Encouraging hoteliers to invest time, energy and resources into transparently reporting on their real environmental and social impact will better serve customers, companies and climate solutions.
‘Aligning your value chain with your values’
Hotel owners, General Managers and marketing teams are encouraged to make a more conscious effort to measure what they are doing well and identify where operational improvements can be made. By interrogating their supply chains, implementing small changes and capturing data more meticulously, they can have the answers at the ready, backed by data and science, when the hard questions in sustainability are posed.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.
She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
