VIDEO: Crawley-based Tui Travel’s commitment to sustainable tourism

TUI Travel, part of the FTSE100, is one of the world’s largest leisure travel companies operating in 180 countries worldwide with 55,000 employees, £15 billion turnover and 30 million customers.

Its 2013 Sustainability Report shows that TUI Travel airlines reduced their absolute carbon emissions by 15% in the last five years – a reduction of one million tonnes of CO2 compared to 2008, which is the equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road for a year.

While in FY13, TUI Travel airlines CO2 per revenue passenger kilometre was 70.7g – an improvement of 3.2% on the previous year and 9.3% in the last 5 years.

TUIfly was ranked the most climate-efficient charter airline worldwide for the second year in a row and most climate-efficient airline in the world with more than one million passengers in the 2013 atmosfair Airline Index.

The company’s goal is to deliver 10 million ‘greener and fairer’ holidays between 2012 to 2014, in FY13 TUI Travel took 3.8 million customers to hotels with sustainability certifications (5.8 million since our FY11 baseline)

For the sixth consecutive year, TUI Travel was featured in the UK’s CDP Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) and was ranked in the top 10% of the FTSE 350 for its approach to carbon disclosure and governance. TUI Travel was the only Travel & Leisure company to feature in the 2013 CDLI and the only company in the whole index to feature for the 6th year running.

Watch the video to hear Jane Ashton, Director of Group Sustainable Development at Tui Travel, talk about the firm’s achievements.