Corporate social responsibility

Scroll down for “GT” posts tagged with “cor­por­ate social respons­ib­il­ity” (CSR) in travel & tour­ism. Accord­ing to Investo­pe­dia, CSR is a “self-reg­u­lat­ing busi­ness mod­el that helps a com­pany be socially account­able — to itself, its stake­hold­ers, and the pub­lic. By prac­ti­cing cor­por­ate social respons­ib­il­ity, also called cor­por­ate cit­izen­ship, com­pan­ies can be con­scious of the kind of impact they are hav­ing on all aspects of soci­ety, includ­ing eco­nom­ic, social, and environmental.”

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Khiri Reach commits to One Million Trees reforestation project in Cambodia


Khiri Reach, the 16-year old charitable arm of Khiri Travel, has joined Wildlife Alliance’s ambitious long-term One Million Trees initiative to reforest illegally cleared land in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains.

Khiri Reach, the 16-year old char­it­able arm of Khiri Travel, has joined Wild­life Alliance’s ambi­tious long-term One Mil­lion Trees ini­ti­at­ive to refor­est illeg­ally cleared land in Cambodia’s Car­damom Moun­tains. Khiri Reach has donated US$15,000 to the One Mil­lion Trees refor­est­a­tion pro­ject in the Koh Kong and Sihan­ouk­ville provinces of Cam­bod­ia. The char­ity has pledged to […]

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Purposeful travel by design: Can tourism lead the way to a sustainable future?

August 30, 2023

Promoting travel with purpose: How the tourism industry can shape a sustainable future. A welcome at Barauli Community Homestay.

Aay­usha Pra­sain lays out her vis­ion for pur­pose­ful travel and why the tour­ism industry should lead by example. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) Pur­pose­ful travel involves more than just the joy of explor­a­tion.  It encom­passes a mind­ful approach that pre­serves the envir­on­ment, empowers loc­al com­munit­ies, pro­motes eth­ic­al practices, […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on travel & tourism and a fairer world

August 9, 2022

Fair fun for some. There are diverse perspectives on how travel & tourism can contribute to a fairer world. Photo by sebastien cordat via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/ZGOlXxJz1dM

How can travel & tour­ism con­trib­ute to a fairer world? For this “GT” Insight Bites, your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion above to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers, and invited writ­ten responses of up to 300 words.  My thanks to all 15 respond­ents.  Their answers appear in the order in which I received them … […]

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Three steps travel companies can take to contend with climate change

October 26, 2021
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Contrails. How can the travel & tourism industry contend with climate change? (Image by Free-Photos (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/contrails-trail-airplane-plane-1210064/

How does one take mean­ing­ful action to back up a poten­tially hypo­crit­ic­al declar­a­tion about cli­mate? This is a ques­tion that travel & tour­ism com­pan­ies must con­tend with right now, par­tic­u­larly those that rely on air travel for their products and cus­tom­ers. Tour­ism schol­ar Francesca Gal­lone sug­gests three steps that com­pan­ies can take to walk their […]

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Outrigger goes big on World Oceans Month this June


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Bare­foot lux­ury and cor­al reef con­ser­va­tion meet at Out­rig­ger Resorts. WAIKIKI – In hon­our of World Oceans Month this June, Out­rig­ger Hotels and Resorts is eager to con­tin­ue its sup­port in pro­tect­ing and sus­tain­ing the oceans and the spe­cies that inhab­it them. Mak­ing Big Waves for Glob­al Change Through its OZONE pro­gramme, Out­rig­ger has cham­pioned ocean and cor­al health […]

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Travel & tourism’s social impact and how to build back better for animals

December 17, 2020
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Toucan. By ractapopulous (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/toucan-bird-animal-art-nature-2411792/

As the “build back bet­ter” buzz con­tin­ues, social impact and com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist Helen Ush­er wants travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers to factor anim­al wel­fare into their plans. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight Ms Ush­er sug­gests how we might do just that. This is a time of unpre­ced­en­ted glob­al crisis for the tour­ism sec­tor; a time we switch […]

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