We’ve launched a global membership community to bring destinations and travel businesses together around shared challenges, with founding members to be announced in the coming weeks.
Travel Forward Connect is a unique global membership community bringing tourism destinations and businesses together to act on the challenges affecting the wellbeing and long-term future of destinations.
Our aim is to fill a long-standing gap in tourism. Destinations and global travel businesses are often trying to solve the same challenges, from climate risk and visitor pressure to spreading local benefits, but rarely have a shared space in which to work on them together. Travel Forward Connect creates that space. The community also supports organisations, including Glasgow Declaration signatories, to move from climate commitments to practical action and deepen collaboration in line with the Declaration’s five pathways.
Join us for an introductory webinar
3pm BST, Wednesday 27th May
Where we’ll outline the purpose of the community, explain membership options and introduce some of the first members to join.
“For too long, destinations and travel businesses have been expected to solve shared challenges separately. Travel Forward Connect is designed to bring them around the same table, with a shared focus on honest conversation and practical action. That means being willing to address the issues that really shape the future of tourism, including responding to climate vulnerability, shifting how the money flows, reducing economic leakage and putting communities at the centre of destination development.”
Jeremy Sampson, Travel Forward CEO
Travel Forward Connect is a space for discussion and peer learning, and also a platform for collective action. The founding cohort will help shape an initial collaborative pilot project linked to the charity’s mission to spark big changes in how tourism benefits destinations.
Membership includes monthly online convenings, insight briefings, access to emerging research and case studies. There are also opportunities to shape Travel Forward’s wider agenda, and participate in a growing international network focused on destination resilience and community wellbeing.
The community is open to destinations and businesses committed to supporting long-term destination resilience and fair outcomes for communities, including:
- destination management organisations
- national tourism authorities
- tourism businesses
- operators
- hotel groups
- travel platforms
For more information on Travel Forward Connect click the link below.
