Seville hosts the 5th A World for Travel event on October 23-24, focusing on sustainable transformation in travel, featuring climate change discussions.
This 0ctober 23-24 Seville will see the 5th Edition of the A World for Travel sustainability event, which is dedicated to the transformation and adaptation of the global travel industry towards becoming fully sustainable. In particular this year’s event focuses on climate change and will be opened by WTTC President and CEO, Julia Simpson.
“This year’s event will focus on collaborative efforts amongst industry players to find solutions addressing sustainability. Lessons from the Paris Olympics will be shared to further enlighten the global travel community,” remarked Christian Delom, Secretary General, A World for Travel.
New approaches such as ICF’s destination heat resistance planner and AXA’s pricing model which includes a destination’s propensity for severe weather will be shared. Companies around the world are developing methodologies to address the impact of raising temperatures.
“Climate emergency translates into a major threat and challenge for tourism destinations. ICF has developed a new program providing policy and strategy advisory to tourism authorities and stakeholders based on rising temperatures and extreme heat event projections, applicable to national, regional and local levels. We are excited to be sharing our novel solution as well as a Spanish case-study during the AWFT next month,” explained Nikolaos Gkolfinopoulos, Head of Tourism, ICF.
The agenda this year will cover new topics including access to green financing, what happens in mountain destinations if snowfall is compromised and important communication philosophies plus critical messaging from the French Space Center (CNES) on lessons learned from space that will help us in our fight.
A World for Travel panel hosted by Rajan Datar.
Rajan Dater of the BBC will again be the Master of Ceremonies and he will conduct selected one-on-one conversations with titans of industry on topics such as coolcationing, sustainable cruising and business travel in the climate era.
“I believe the hospitality and especially the ski industry can learn a lot from our international counterparts. Climate change is a global problem and collaboration and sharing information is vital. I look forward to learning about new climate solutions while I am at AWFT in Spain, ” confirmed Kelly Pawlak, CEO, National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) and Mount Snow.
Focus on travel industry financing brings forward companies like the Clearsky Fund, Amadeus Ventures and Roch Ventures to share the importance of impact financing as well as identifying sustainable financing.
The event will run for two days and will include an awards dinner where five companies will be recognized for impact awards on climate change, environment, technological prowess, economic advancement nd resilience. Nominations can be made via the aworldfortravel.org website and are open until October 10. Special offers for registrations are also noted on the website.
Taking place alongside the Travel Innovation Summit or TIS, both events will draw thousands from the international travel industry to learn the latest on sustainability and technology.
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She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
