In The Press

In a recent blog featured in the Travel Trade Gazette, our CEO, Melissa Tilling, passionately discusses Charitable Travel’s mission to make a positive impact through sustainable tourism. The article delves into how we are weaving sustainability into our marketing strategies, emphasising our commitment to responsible travel and philanthropy. Discover how we’re transforming the travel industry, one eco-conscious adventure at a time here. 

We are proud to announce that Charitable Travel is a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The declaration represents a shared commitment within the travel industry to innovate and adapt industry practices to reduce negative climate impacts generated by travel.

As a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration, we commit to deliver plans aligned with the key pathways of the declaration (Measure, Decarbonise, Regenerate, Collaborate, Finance) to cut tourism emissions in half over the next decade and reach Net Zero emissions as soon as possible before 2050. We promise to deliver our climate action plan within 12 months of becoming a signatory and to begin to implement them.

To find out more about the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism and our commitment to sustainable travel, click the button below. Will you sign too?

Our founder and CEO, Melissa Tilling has been officially appointed by Belmond to serve pro bono on their LGBTQ+ Commerical Committee. Belmond is a well established travel brand which operates and runs hotels, train and river cruises around the world. In this new role, Melissa will help support the direction of the group by helping to further its inclusion and diversity across its product offering and brand.

Melissa looks forward to working with the group and helping to promote greater inclusivity in the travel industry.

We’re delighted to announce that Charitable Travel is now a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), as part of our commitment to sustainable and ethical travel practices.

The GSTC establishes and helps manage global sustainable standards in the travel industry, helping to increase awareness and demand for responsible travel. Charitable Travel is already recognised as a unique social enterprise travel company, which supports philanthropy in general and specifically a wide range of charities chosen by our customer stakeholders when they book holidays and travel through our agency. The choice of transport method, lodging and sightseeing – to ensure that the holidays are as sustainable as possible – is always at the forefront of our product selection and discussions with customers. We accept that not every customer will be tuned to sustainability however we are committed to advance this agenda, but also accept that simply by booking with Charitable Travel our customers are making a substantial donation to a good cause as part of our #travelforgood methodology.

Our founder and CEO Melissa Tilling will be attending the GSTC conference in Antalya, Turkey from the 9th – 12th of May to meet with other like-minded organisations and represent Charitable Travel, working on ways to further improve sustainability within our offering to the customer. We look forward to continuing our work in sustainable travel moving forward as GSTC members.

We have been featured in the Citizen Femme blog as one of eight eco-conscious companies improving the way people travel!

To read the full blog, to find out more about us, and for an inspiration to travel, please click here. 

The founder and CEO of Charitable Travel, Melissa Tilling, speaks to Truth Behind Travel Podcast host Dolores Semeraro about what encouraged her to launch a travel agency during the pandemic and why the timing couldn’t have been more perfect for Charitable Travel to be successful.

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The founder and CEO of Charitable Travel, has been named one of three ‘Travel Heroes’ by Priority Pass, in their 30th anniversary celebrations!

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Our recent consumer survey into the correlation between holiday spending and donations has been featured in The Phoenix Newspaper!

To read the full survey results and for an analysis of what this means for the travel and charity sectors please click here.