Responsible tourism and sustainability are more important than ever. Travel media plays an important part in shaping how cultures and ecosystems around the globe are understood in the UK and beyond. Our writers, photographers, bloggers, broadcasters and editors are integral in chronicling the world to diverse audiences and increasing travellers’ understanding and respect for different countries, communities and environmental challenges.
As an organisation, we signed the Glasgow Declaration: Climate Action on Tourism in spring 2023 and devised sustainability pledges aimed at helping our members understand the climate crisis and how it impacts tourism. These pledges are updated annually.
You can see our most recent pledges here:
Before we first signed the declaration, our then Sustainability Lead, Diana Jarvis, spoke with Jeremy Smith, one of the movement’s founders, about what we as a member organisation could promise as well as how we could go about implementing those promises.
We then hosted a webinar with three experts in the field – Holly Tuppen, Georgiana Wilson Powell and Karen Edwards – that explored greenwashing in travel media.
The British Guild of Travel Writers’ commitment has now expanded into our annual Better World Symposium focused on sustainability, inclusivity and ethics in travel media, which you can learn more about here.
For any further sustainability-related enquiries, please get in touch with Alicia Sheber [[email protected]], BGTW Sustainability Director.
