Tips for Using the Meaningful Travel Platform

As your travel business rebuilds centered on a strong sustainability and resiliency strategy,  our organizations must first understand ways we can protect the destinations, communities, and our planet that provide our industry's experiences.   

What is the Meaningful Travel Platform? 

The Tourism Cares Meaningful Travel Platform is an online educational tool created as a business to business digital training and resource tool, designed to initiate, support, and strengthen travel company’s sustainability practices. 

Based on nearly two decades of mission-driven work and research, we created this user-friendly portal offering a series of chapters and industry resources for your use. Each topic is a pertinent concept that impacts our industry.

Use the Meaningful Travel Platform to develop your travel business and advance your sustainability journey.  

• Access the platform as a "first step or stopover" in understanding meaningful travel. 

• Dive into topics for individual professional development

• Use as a tool to share with staff  

• Mark topics as favorites to revisit

• Tap into our basic terminology definitions  

• Use the case studies as discussion ideas when developing your product. Chapters include a range of topics such as Why is Sustainable Tourism Development Important?  and  Guidance for Community Partners During Times of Crisis.

• Build sustainability goals into your organization's 3, 5, and 10-year strategy. Resources can help you navigate rising traveler concerns, such as  Protecting Animals in Tourism, The Rise in Social Enterprise,  and Orphanage Volunteer Why Say No.  

The Meaningful Travel Platform is an evolving tool and we will be adding more content regularly! Please SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for announcements on the latest chapters and resources.