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Press Release on Sustainable Tourism Management

July 3, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

Sustainable Tourism Management - A unique initiative provides competitive advantages for travel and tourism companies.

“Unique initiative provides competitive advantages for travel and tourism companies”

This distance-learning program is free of charge and caters for active tourism professionals seeking supplemental skills and knowledge on how sustainable tourism products and services can unite environ-mental awareness with both higher customer satisfaction and increased profitability. The program is developed by specialists within the industry and is aimed at marketing managers, sales managers, product managers, and CEO’s of companies within the tourism, travel and hospitality sector of Sweden.

  • Customized by the industry for the industry with the latest updates and material in sustainable tourism
  • Seminar oriented and action focused education applicable to the business
  • Focused on service and product development, highlighting attractive experiences and profitability with sustainability as the foundation
  • The program is free of charge with physical meetings once a month which limits absence from work and enable time to apply theory into practice

Some comments about the initiative:

“Few in our industry know how we can best work with sustainability. To have only a few who understand and possess the skills isn’t enough. Knowledge needs to be spread and we need to know more, with the expertise on sustainability on several positions within the companies in order for development to take off.” Farhad Kakavand, Business Manager – Svenska Mässan/TUR

“As tourists keeps increasing around the world, grows the awareness of responsibility. Due to a general lack of knowledge, sustainability seldom reaches the boardrooms and strategic business plans. It requires knowledge and courage to begin to act, hence the need for this program.” Camilla Zedendahl, Managing Director – Destination Sigtuna

“Companies that do not integrate sustainability into its business model have no view on long-term value creation and will therefore not attract the talented workforce either.” Fredrik Lindblom, Sustainable Development Manager – TUI Nordic

“Working with sustainability is no longer optional. It is something we all have to do. But to do it in the best way – smart and resource-efficient – it requires knowledge of both the industry itself and sustainability. This program meets a huge demand, which actually the whole planet is crying for.” Caroline Strindmar, Sustainability Manager – Yasuragi

“Awareness and questions related to sustainable travel is constantly increasing among our members. An education like this is exactly what we require here and now.” Lilian Brunell, Manager – Association of Swedish Travel Agents and Tour Operators

“Increased requirements and the demand for sustainability is a fact, but without the expertise and coopera-tion we stand little chance to achieve our aim. Knowledge of sustainability is inadequate and therefore the need for skills enhancement is required. We work together with the industry and educate for change!” Jeppe Klockareson, Owner & Founder – Fair Travel

Read the press release in full here.

Read more about the program and Fair Travel’s involvement here.

Filed Under: Announcements, News, Project reports Tagged With: consulting, education, Jeppe Klockareson, sustainable tourism development

Press Release on Sustainable Tourism Management

June 17, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

Press-Release-Sustainable-Tourism-Management-150616“Unikt branschinitiativ ger konkurrensfördelar för företag inom turism, resor och hospitality”

Denna kostnadsfria distansutbildning vänder sig till branschaktiva som söker kompetens och kunskap om hur hållbara turismprodukter och tjänster kan förena miljöhänsyn med såväl ökade kundupplevels-er som ökad lönsamhet. Utbildningen är utarbetad av sakkunniga inom branschen och riktar sig till marknadsförare, säljledare, produktchefer och vd på företag inom turism, resor och hospitality.

  • Branschaktuell och företagsanpassad – av branschen till branschen med det senaste inom hållbar turism
  • Seminarieinriktad och deltagaraktiv – utbildning som blir direkt applicerbar på verksamheten
  • Produktutveckling – fokus på utveckling av produkter och tjänster för mer attraktiva och lönsamma upplevelser med hållbarhet som grund
  • Kostnadsfri och tidsanpassad – Utbildningen finansieras med skattemedel och ligger fre-lör, en gång i månaden för att begränsa frånvaro och möjliggöra applicering av teori i praktiken

Röster om utbildningen:

“Få i vår bransch vet hur vi på bästa sätt ska jobba med hållbarhet. Ett fåtal personer som förstår och besitter kompetens räcker inte. Kunskapen behöver spridas och fler behöver veta mer, med kompetens om hållbarhet på fler positioner inom företagen för att utvecklingen ska ta fart.” Farhad Kakavand, Business Manager – Svenska Mässan/TUR

“I takt med turistnäringen växer också insikten om ett ansvarsfullt agerande. Kunskapsbrist gör att hållbarhetsperspektivet inte når ledningsrummen och de strategiska affärsplanerna. Det krävs kunskap och mod för att börja agera och därför behövs denna utbildning.” Camilla Zedendahl, Managing Director – Destination Sigtuna

“Företag som inte integrerar hållbarhet i sin affärsmodell har ingen syn på långsiktigt värdeskapande och kommer därmed ej heller att attrahera den talangfulla arbetskraften.” Fredrik Lindblom, Sustainable Development Manager – Fritidsresor

“Att arbeta med hållbarhet är inte längre valbart, alla måste göra det. Men för att göra det på bästa sätt – smart och resurseffektivt – krävs kunskap, både om branschen och hållbarhet. Den här utbildningen svarar mot en enorm efterfrågan, hela planeten ropar faktiskt efter den.” Caroline Strindmar, Sustainability Manager – Yasuragi

“Ökad efterfrågan och krav på hållbarhet är ett faktum, men utan kompetens och samverkan når vi inget resultat. Kunskapen kring hållbarhet är bristande och därför är behovet av kompetens- byggnad stort. Vi jobbar tillsammans med branschen och utbildar för förändring!” Jeppe Klockareson, Owner & Founder – Fair Travel

Läs pressreleasen i sin helhet här.

Filed Under: Announcements, News, Project reports Tagged With: consulting, education, Jeppe Klockareson, sustainable tourism development

Sustainable Tourism Management

January 21, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

STU-130920-2Fair Travel was employed by Frans Schartau Business Institute to investigate the possibility to start an education on sustainable tourism management for tourism professionals. The application was finalized and submitted in 2014 with the decision from the authorities arriving today.

This one of a kind education in Sweden got the approval of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education and will start up in November 2015 where Fair Travel will be heavily involved in the planning and running of the education. Frans Schartau Business Institute i a prestigious and renowned education institute, focusing on higher vocational education. In 2015, the institute is celebrating 150 years of successful business.

Together with Frans Schartau Institute, Fair Travel will hold a key role with Sustainable Tourism Management in order to keep the quality and content at the necessary high level. The exact setup and responsibilities are to be confirmed in the coming months but the objective here is to make an education that can really start to change the tourism and travel industry to take responsibility and to work according to sustainable practices for a better future.

You can read more about Sustainable Tourism Management at the official site of Frans Schartau Business Institute where the content will be continuously updated. Read more here.

Filed Under: Announcements, News, Project reports Tagged With: consulting, education, Jeppe Klockareson, sustainable tourism development

TREBLE workshop in Riga

June 13, 2014 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

TREBLE co-organized a half-day workshop in Riga together with Race For The Baltic, supported by CBSS and Clarion Collection Hotel Valdemars. This was the second workshop organized by Race For The Baltic in Riga and gathered 32 participants to an inspiring event with lectures and discussions.

Apart from Fair Travel, other invited speakers were the Latvian Ministry of Economics, Clarion Collection Hotel Valdemars, Destination Sigtuna, Innovation Norway, Enterprise Estonia and Radisson Blu Ridzene Hotel.

TREBLE-Riga-140612-2The agenda for the workshop was to bring together key stakeholders in the tourism industry around “how to approach and embed sustainable tourism in the Baltic Sea Region”, with focus on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim was to offer definition and inspiration for sustainable tourism practices as well as to work with the participants to identify clear paths and solutions towards creating a more systemic and holistic approach to the industry in order to secure sustainable economic growth in the region.

This was the second TREBLE workshop and the last one before the Summer break. Upcoming workshops will be held in Estonia in August together with expected additional workshops in Poland and Karlskrona.

TREBLE is a project based on the tourism sector to contribute to the EU 2020 and European Blue Growth agenda through sustainable growth, and to bring forward sustainable rural development and employment opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region. Read the full description of it here.

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Happy 20th Birthday to Wilderness Explorers!

June 7, 2014 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

20th anniversary celebration - Wilderness ExplorersRepresented partner Wilderness Explorers celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2014. Wilderness Explorers has operated in Georgetown for 20 years now and the anniversary was celebrated at Cara Lodge in, Georgetown on the 6th June 2014.

“Guyana President Donald Ramotar has assured Wilderness Explorers that the Government would ‘be with the company’ in its quest to maximise its growth in the industry and make it one of the most important in our country.”

With an estimated 2500 annual tourists visiting Guyana each year, Wilderness Explorers has been an incremental instrument in putting Guyana on the global tourist map. These numbers can only increase as more and more people start to understand the wonders hidden in this forgotten gem on the northern shores of South America.

The President concluded during the celebrations:
“We still have some challenges to face, and I think we have made some sound investments in an industry that is growing; and as it gets more developed, mankind will want to feel the wonders of nature, and that is why it is important to preserve our environment.”

Happy Birthday to Wilderness Explorers!

Read more about Wilderness Explorers here and check out the article from the celebrations here.

Filed Under: Announcements, News, Project reports Tagged With: Guyana, tourism, Wilderness Explorers

TREBLE workshop in Gothenburg

March 22, 2014 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

TREBLE project invited stakeholders and those interested in sustainability issues in the tourism industry, to a half-day workshop in Gothenburg during the TUR2014 Expo.

This was the first workshop of the project, and gathered some 30 participants, listening in to inspiring presentations from award-winning Swedish ecotourism companies Wild Sweden and Urnatur together with TREBLE partners BEF Lithuania, CBSS, Estonian Ecotourism Association and Fair Travel. The topic of the workshop was sustainable tourism development within the Baltic Sea Region, and though the participation numbers were a bit low, the discussions that followed were all very energetic, inspirational and thoughtful.

One participant concluded:

BTC-FIN-S - 06“The academia need to translate their message into “normal language” and put it into common sense and as a part of an integrated system in order to change the mindset and attitude of people and politicians. There is a need for Science and academia but the dialogue needs to be more efficient in order for politicians to set sound and reasonable policies, which are effective and understandable. Take the knowledge and put it into common sense for people. We do not need to speak about eco etc. start to speak about a real modern lifestyle. The message should be: Modern people do no travel so much, they do not waste energy, they eat healthy and sell this as a lifestyle – We need to rethink the idea of a modern human”

More workshops are to come and given the passion shown in the first workshop, it will be very interesting to see what might come of the rest of the activities organized under the TREBLE banner.

TREBLE is a project based on the tourism sector to contribute to the EU 2020 and European Blue Growth agenda through sustainable growth, and to bring forward sustainable rural development and employment opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region. Read the full description of it here.

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TREBLE workshop – Gothenburg 2014

February 21, 2014 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

TTSD2011-Audience-1TREBLE invite you to participate in the first workshop, taking place in Gothenburg on the 21st March during the TUR2014 Expo. Together with our partners from Estonia and Lithuania, and joined by the successful ecotourism operators Wild Sweden and Urnatur, we will offer you and inspiring event focused on facts, inspiration and discussions on sustainable tourism development in the Baltic Sea Region.

TREBLE is a project based on the tourism sector to contribute to the EU 2020 and European Blue Growth agenda through sustainable growth, and to bring forward sustainable rural development and employment opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region.

The aim of TREBLE is to assess and analyze the need for knowledge and capacity building among relevant players in the tourism sector on sustainable tourism development within the Baltic Sea Region. We want to invite small, medium and micro sized enterprises, SMMEs, together with relevant travel trade organizations and other stakeholders in the region. The project seeks to extend already existing networks of relevant actors with the aim to also establish a relevant cross-border network of partners within the region.

We want to invite YOU, who’re interested in participating in this half day workshop, to build a solid foundation for a joint sustainable tourism development plan in the Baltic Sea Region. We hope to see you in Gothenburg!
Program:

Date: 21st March 2014

Time: 12:30 – 16:45

Venue: TUR Expo – Svenska Mässan, F3

  • 12:30 – 13:00 Registration
  • 13:00 – 13:15 Welcome presentation by Martin Ahlberg
  • 13:15 – 13:30 Introduction of TREBLE project by Maxi Nachtigall
  • 13:30 – 14:00 Introduction to Sustainable Tourism Development by Jeppe Klockareson
  • 14:00 – 14:30 Baltic perspectives on sustainable tourism development
  • 14:30 – 15:10 Inspiration from Wild Sweden and Urnatur
  • 15:10 – 15:30 Mingle and coffee break
  • 15:30 – 16:30 Discussions on sustainable tourism development
  • 16:30 – 16:45 Conclusion and future activities by Martin Ahlberg

 

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