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Accelerating Demand for Sustainable Travel
Jane Edge
Fair Trade Tourism
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AGENDA /
• About Fair Trade Tourism
• Certification Pillars
• Our Portfolio Across Africa
• Fair Trade Tourism Brand Strength
• How we match supply and demand?
• Fair Trade Holidays
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▪ Africa’s leading responsible tourism NGO
▪ Portfolio of 205 tourism products in eight African countries – the most responsible tourism businesses in Africa!
▪ We operate the world’s first tourism Fair Trade certification programme
▪ We provide sustainability training to tourism businesses
▪ We connect sustainable tourism products with sustainability savvy operators.
About Fair Trade Tourism
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A Effective, sustainable
and responsible management
BSocial and economic
benefits to the
local community
C Benefits to
cultural heritage
D Benefits to the
environment
230 Certification Criteria
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Our Portfolio across Africa
205 certified products in 8 countries:
South Africa Madagascar Mozambique Botswana Namibia Seychelles Tanzania Kenya
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Fair Trade Tourism brand strength
Recognition of Fairtrade mark:
87% in Switzerland
90% in UK
85% in Netherlands
72% in Germany,
63% in USA
60% in Canada
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How we match supply and demand
Certification • For tourism products • Register and provide evidence of sustainability practices• On site audit every 3 years • Promoted by FTT Approved tour operators• Included in Fair Trade Holidays
Recognition • For tourism products • Get audited by FTT’s partner orgs. in BOT, KEN, NAM, SEY, TAN• Included in Fair Trade Holidays
Approval• For tour operators • Sustainability pledge. Not certification, no audit• Package and promote Fair Trade Holidays
TUI Better Holidays, Better World 2016 Report: We will deliver 10 million greener and fairer holidays a year by 2020, enabling more local people to share in the benefits of tourism.
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