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By GreenBiz Staff
Published October 08, 2009
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future.
The founding partners of Tourism 2023
announced their plans today at the ABTA travel
convention in Barcelona.
Working with the organization Forum for the
Future, the founding partners are ABTA, British
Airways, Carnival UK, the Co-operative Travel, the
Travel Foundation, Thomas Cook and TUI Travel, according to a report on the group's work.
The effort also has had support from Defra, the U.K.'s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
and Advantage Travel Centres has since been noted as an early joiner in the group.
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The firms that sign on with the group pledge to "collaborate to create a commercially sustainable tourism
industry by the year 2023, which benefits communities in tourist destinations and protects the environment."
The group has already sketched out four scenarios that are intended to spark discussion on how to prepare
for the future. The scenarios -- envisioned as "Boom and Burst," "Divided Disquiet," "Price and Privilege" and
"Carbon Clampdown" -- require the group to consider how growing domestic demand, climate change,
water and other scare resources, legislation and increasing travel from emerging economies will affect their
industry.
The group says its considerations for the future will be based on six principles:
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