Sustainability
Travel can heal – how suppliers are addressing wellbeing and wellness needs of consumers
12/08/2021 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
AS the pandemic wears on and takes alarming twists and turns around the world, it is clearly taking its toll on mental wellbeing and wellness and there is no denying that when travellers get back on the road, travel is in a unique position to address this need – from wellness retreats to immersio [...]
Sustainability: Don’t sell or tell, show it
06/08/2021 by Tabbi Maitland
“It should be a jailable offence to greenwash”, says Bouteco’s Kinsman IF there was one key message from Episode 5 of the WiT Travel Roadshow last Thursday, it is that it is the industry’s opportunity to turn “revenge travel” into “beautiful travel” by putting sustainability prin [...]
Thrust Carbon finds sweet spot in corporate travel programmes
23/07/2021 by Tabbi Maitland
EVERY startup needs to find its product-market-fit moment and it appears that for Thrust Carbon, which came out of an IATA hackathon in 2019, its time has arrived. According to Glenn Thorsen, director of partnerships, Thrust Carbon started out as an offset API that plugged into airline checkout [...]