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Removing nearly nine tonnes of excess weight from aircraft and cutting over 300 million pages from brochures are just two of the green achievements Thomson and First Choice are highlighting today, 20 July, with the release of TUI Travel PLC’s 2010 Sustainable Development Report. Read more »

Three year commitments reinforce TUI’s position at forefront of sustainable travel

London, 17 March 2011: The UK’s leading tour operator, TUI (Thomson and First Choice), has today announced 20 sustainable travel commitments for 2011. Launched at The Economist’s Sustainable Business Summit, the ambitious three year commitments reinforce the company’s position at the forefront of sustainable tourism – it is the only travel company to introduce such wide ranging and measurable objectives. Read more »

New report reveals innovations in sustainability will shape our holidays of tomorrow

Thomson Holidays unveils the hotel room of the future

Our annual break in the sun is being redefined as holidaymakers, tour operators, hotels and resorts all adapt and innovate to save the world’s ever dwindling resources. According to a major report published today, sustainable holidays must represent the future of mass tourism. Read more »

If Richard Branson is campaigning for an efficiency rating for every ocean going vessel, he should also be pushing for the creation for a similar system within the aviation industry that all airlines are rated against. Read more »

Thomson has launched its first Greener Holidays Brochure. It includes 86 different hotels around the world that have received a Travelife Award, for their commitment to the environment, employees and local communities.  The brochure aims to make it easier for customers to select a greener holiday, one of Thomson’s commitments in its Holidays Forever campaign. Read more »

New ‘jungle jams’ made by a local Mayan community are now available on the breakfast buffet at Thomson’s Sensatori Resort Mexico. For the first time, villagers of Chumpon can now benefit directly from tourism.

The ‘jungle jams’ project is helping a co-operative of Mayan women to set up their own jam-making business for supply to local tourism businesses.  The women are now able to earn an income without moving away from their village helping to keep their cultural heritage alive.

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New study shows we’re hopeless at packing and it’s not just our backs breaking under the extra weight

As the schools break up this week, Brits will turn their thoughts to summer holidays, and start panicking on what on earth should be packed. As well as wanting to look good on holiday, many of us load ourselves up in preparation for any eventuality. A new study released today shows a quarter of us spend between two and three days packing our bags for our holiday, but once there only 16% actually use and wear everything they’ve packed.  In fact, over a third of those asked, do not use 25% of stuff taken away*. Read more »

A first for the mainstream travel industry, Thomson’s parent company TUI UK & Ireland has announced that it has informed all of its suppliers that by May 2011, they will be expected to have purchased a subscription to the Travelife Sustainability System. Read more »