What others say

Our commitment to Responsible Leadership extends outside our Group into our sector more broadly. We take great pride in the recognition we receive from experts in our sector who assess our achievements and give us awards. We have won a number of notable awards this year. We also continue to be placed on sustainable development indices.

Indices

FTSE4Good
TUI Travel is listed on the FTSE4Good Index in recognition of its transparency and for meeting strict social, environmental and governance standards.

Carbon Disclosure Project
TUI Travel completed its third submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project in June 2010 with results to be announced in October 2010. In 2009, for the second consecutive year we were included in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index, which highlights the top 10% of FTSE350 companies that have displayed the most professional and transparent approach to climate change disclosure. To read our 2010 submisson document, visit our Download centre.

Awards

• World Travel Awards
  TUI Travel PLC was awarded the World’s Responsible Tourism Award in 2009 
• British Travel Awards 
  First Choice was awarded Most Environmentally Responsible Large Tour Operator (2007- 2009) and Thomson Airways was named Most Environmentally Responsible Airline (2006 - 2009)
• TTG Travel Awards
  TUI UK & Ireland was awarded the TTG Travel Gives Back Award in 2009, and its sustainable development commitment was the deciding factor in naming TUI UK & Ireland the overall Top Travel Company
• Co-operative Travel Star Awards
  TUI UK & Ireland was awarded the Sustainable Tourism Award in 2008 and 2009
• Travel Feather Awards
  TUI Nederland was awarded the Green Feather in 2009 for its sustainable tourism activities
• Travel Weekly Australia
  Peregrine Adventures won Australia’s ‘Five green leaves’ prize for responsible tourism in 2009
• Practical Boat Owners Awards
  TUI Marine was awarded the Green Award for Service in 2009, recognising businesses who have taken steps to make the leisure boat industry more sustainable

For details of previous awards, see: www.tuitravelplc.com/sustainabledevelopment

Partner statement

"Forum for the Future works with leaders from business and the public sector to create a green, fair and prosperous world. TUI Travel has been working with Forum for the Future since 2003 on the development and implementation of our sustainable development strategy (initially as First Choice Holidays PLC, subsequently as TUI Travel PLC) and we are proud to be one of Forum for the Future’s Foundation Corporate Partners, their key partner in the leisure travel industry sector www.forumforthefuture.org.

TUI Travel continues to lead the sector on sustainable tourism. It is great to see continued improvements, including increasing coverage of good practice across the businesses. Now that the Group is more established post merger, it will be important to continue to raise the bar across the business and really capitalise on the commercial value of sustainability. 

Importantly, TUI Travel leadership also includes exploring the big sectoral issues. Their pioneering approach to understand and then maximise their socio-economic benefit of an all inclusive is a good example. Hopefully it will provide the route for customers to understand the value that they are adding to the places they visit. Finding practical ways to resolve issues like this is critical. TUI Travel needs to be tackling these big issues on the front foot and finding new business models and approaches to deal with them and equip them for the changing operating context.

I look forward to working alongside TUI Travel PLC as they take their leadership universally across the Group, innovate new, exciting approaches and set even bolder ambitions moving forward."

Stephanie Draper
Director, Change Strategies
Forum for the Future 

"TUI Travel PLC was awarded the World’s Responsible Tourism Award in 2009"