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Featured Members of the Week
Members since the 2010s ✨
Hospitality
Minor Hotel Group Limited
Since 2010s
Led by the authentic flagship brand, Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, Minor Hotels owns and operates a diverse portfolio of over 530 hotels, resorts and branded residences across six continents.
Travel Intelligence
ForwardKeys
Since 2010s
Founded in 2010, ForwardKeys' comprehensive database of air travellers and visitors offers detailed information on passenger travel itineraries, advanced profiles and behaviour patterns and preferences.
Aviation
LNRS Data Services Pte Ltd
Since 2010s
Cirium® delivers powerful data and cutting-edge analytics to empower airlines, airports, travel enterprises, aircraft manufacturers, and financial entities in operations optimisation and revenue growth acceleration.
Hospitality
Beijing Sunny International Communications
Since 2010s
An enterprise under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China, covering Chinese tourism destinations' brand marketing, public relations activities, cultural product publishing and more.
DMC
Pacific Leisure (Thailand) Limited
Since 2010s
Thai-based DMC and representative of multiple NTOs around the globe providing customised services in flights and hotel booking, group and individual trip planning, domestic and international MICE , and luxury travels.
Sustainability Initiative
Travelife (ECEAT)
Since 2010s
A training, management and certification initiative providing practical web-based solutions for tourism companies to manage and improve social/ environmental impacts through complying with sustainability criteria.
DMC
Royal Mountain Travel
Since 2010s
A Nepal-based full-service travel & adventure tour operator protecting local communities and driving changes in Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan through providing luxury & budget community-based tourism and homestay network.
Airport Hospitality
Plaza Premium Lounge Management Ltd
Since 2010s
Established in 1998, the HKSAR-based airport service provider is present in 80+ international airports across 30+ countries and regions in lounge, concierge, hotel, and dining.
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EarthCheck: The Planet Deserves More Than Half Measures
Mangroves play a key role in the effective operation of land and sea habitat. However, due to the climate challenge, pollution and local threats, they have been halved in the past forty years. Find out how these ecosystems can be protected.
Destinations & Communities: Implementation
Destinations don’t noticeably move from one phase to another but rather move fluidly between planning and implementation. Implementing sustainable tourism outcomes is a delicate balance of developing without overdeveloping, marketing without over-promoting and managing without stifling the natural and dynamic social and cultural attributes of unique and vibrant destinations.
Destinations & Communities: Destination Planning
Tourism can and will evolve with or without planning, however the sustainability of a destination depends on whether the type and scale of tourism is best suited to the destination. Effective destination management relies on an iterative and continual planning process that integrates tourism into a community’s social, economic and environmental aspirations.
Destinations & Communities: Destination Performance
The sustainability of a destination is significantly influenced by its ability to adapt to changing market conditions, use resources efficiently and deliver innovative planning and development strategies. That requires an objective review of past performance as part of an ongoing and cyclical process to monitor and evaluate a destination’s progress in achieving its goals and vision.
Sustainable Tourism Online: Destinations and Communities
Tourism is regarded as one of the top five employers world-wide and plays a significant role in the economic and social development of many destinations and communities around the world. Destinations seeking to find a balance between their economic, social and environmental aspirations are engaged in ‘destination management’.
Sustainable Tourism Online: Parks and Culture
Since the creation of Yellowstone National Park, the very first national park, almost 140 years ago, national parks have provided opportunities to recreate in natural areas enjoy the majesty of nature and contemplate our very being. They provide opportunities to relax, reinvigorate and energise and for many, to make spiritual and emotional connections with the earth.
Sustainable Tourism Online: Business Operations
Tourism businesses, no matter what size, face a wide range of challenges in developing, operating, managing and growing their business in what is a highly competitive, rapidly changing and volatile environment.