Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Join us for an session hosted by The Conscious Travel Foundation’s climate partner, Pinwheel, as we welcome industry experts Gavin Sheppard and Rob Cheesewright. In a time when meaningful climate action is no longer optional, this session will equip you with the tools, strategies, and insights to make a measurable impact while communicating your efforts authentically and effectively.

A comprehensive accredited course, hosted online exclusively for members of The Conscious Travel Foundation by ecollective. During this travel industry specific training, participants will develop the skills to identify and deliver climate action for your business. The course will run over two days, with three hours of online training per day.

In response to Meta's recent policy changes, including the removal of third-party fact-checking and the relaxation of hate speech rules on Facebook and Instagram (which was discussed in depth on our community WhatsApp group), The Conscious Travel Foundation is hosting a roundtable discussion to explore how impact-driven travel businesses can navigate and effectively market themselves in this evolving social media environment.

Hosted by Julie Cheetham, COO of Travalyst and TCTF mentor, this session is designed to equip you with the tools and insights you need to create compelling, trustworthy, and transparent impact reports.  Whether you’re new to impact reporting or looking to refine your existing approach, Julie will offer practical guidance, real-world examples, and actionable takeaways to help you master the art of reporting your impact.

Join us for a session led by Sophie Morgan—a renowned disability campaigner having been a wheelchair user since the age of 18— travel writer, broadcaster, and a proud mentor for The Conscious Travel Foundation. Sophie's adventures are a testament to what happens when travel is reimagined through a different lens—one that listens to disabled clients, partners with the right suppliers, and turns accessibility into an opportunity for innovation. Her insights will inspire travel businesses to think bigger, bolder, and more inclusively, proving that there’s no reason any business can’t follow suit. 

Join us our final small group Conscious Conversations session of 2024, with Portia Hart in conversation with Martin Frankenburg, speaker on regenerative travel, founder of Kaiara Amazonia and the NGO, Movimento Refloresta as he shares the critical realities facing the Amazon rainforest today and what tourism, and we as individual travel businesses, can do to help.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Combining his passion for story-telling with a love of data, founder of Equator AI, Edmund Morris, will share the trends shaping the future of travel and tourism and what they mean for the travel experience in the years ahead. He'll look at why the Mona Lisa was voted the most disappointing attraction in the world, explain the queues in the Death Zone on Everest, and why Booking.com had to shut down its sustainability program after just one year.

We are delighted to welcome astronaut, aquanaut, and artist Nicole Stott, and Christina Korp from Space for a Better World, for a session that will explore how space exploration is helping to address some of Earth's greatest challenges.

A comprehensive accredited course, hosted online exclusively for members of The Conscious Travel Foundation by ecollective. During this travel industry specific training, participants will develop the skills to identify and deliver climate action for your business. The course will run over two days, with three hours of online training per day.

A comprehensive accredited course, hosted at Google UK in St Pancras exclusively for members of The Conscious Travel Foundation by ecollective. During this travel industry specific training, participants will develop the skills to identify and deliver climate action for your business.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Gavin Shepherd and Rob Cheesewright join us from our new partners, Pinwheel, to provide a member-101 on our new Climate Fund. Gavin and Rob will introduce you to Pinwheel, the platform and how the fund works, talking more about the projects we’ve chosen to support, the different tiers we have created for our members, and how to get started.

Community driven philanthropy is at the heart of what we do, creating and strengthening the connections between the projects we support and our members. We’re delighted to be welcoming the recipients of our 2023/24 grants to The Conscious Travel Foundation, to tell you about them first-hand, their plans for year one and beyond, and to find out how we can engage with the projects beyond our Community Impact Fund.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Join one of our ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions to connect with fellow members of The Conscious Travel Foundation. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

Join Portia Hart in conversation with some of our inspiring members to explore some of the varied and innovative business models in the travel industry that prioritise purpose over profit. During this small-group discussion, our members will share some of the different approaches they have taken to redefine what success means to them.

Join The Conscious Travel Foundation's and host, travel journalist Juliet Kinsman, to explore the ethical considerations in destination selection and discover how tourism can be a transformative force in regions marked by controversy and conflict, fostering economic growth and poverty alleviation. The discussion aims to reveal both the benefits and potential obstacles of engaging with challenging destinations on the geopolitical stage.

In a world where globalisation is eroding culture and tradition, tourism has to walk a delicate tightrope between supporting preservation and enabling progress. A witness to Ladakh’s introduction to globalisation, Helena Norberg-Hodge joins travel writer and TCTF mentor, Nina Karnikowski to share her work on the worldwide localisation movement. From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world (including their introduction to tourism) without sacrificing social and ecological values.

Join us for a workshop hosted by TCTF Ambassador and founder of Laro Travels, Milo Putnam. Milo is a seasoned expert in ethical wildlife travel, bringing a wealth of experience to guide participants through the nuanced landscape of wildlife encounters in tourism, and the importance of creating a comprehensive wildlife policy that aligns with your own responsible and conscious travel practices.

A small-group session particularly interesting for hoteliers and operators located in ecologically sensitive areas - and members with a passion for nature-based travel. Join mentor Portia Hart, and guests to delve into the concept of biomimicry and utilising ancient indigenous knowledge to guide us towards regenerative solutions.

For many travel brands, AI is still the great unknown – but if you’re not diving in and experimenting with this next great shift, you risk being left behind. Lemongrass will take you through 10 practical takeaways so you can start using ChatGPT to help with PR and marketing for your brand. You’ll discover how ChatGPT might enhance your content creation and social media management, as well as help you gain a better understanding of your customers.

It’s been an exciting few months here at The Conscious Travel Foundation as we’ve worked in partnership with Caliopy Glares of Philanthropy Without Borders to develop our philanthropy programme. In this session, we welcome Caliopy, in conversation with co-founder Olivia, to introduce our new Philanthropy Strategy and Framework, share her research and stakeholder assessment, talk you through our revised strategy and answer questions from our members.

To welcome new members on board and allow our fantastic community to connect with one another, we will hosting two ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions, to accommodate all the timezones across the globe. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

To welcome new members on board and allow our fantastic community to connect with one another, we will hosting two ‘Meet the Members’ ice-breaker sessions, to accommodate all the timezones across the globe. Following a brief introduction from the team, you will have a chance to meet each other ‘one-on-one’ using the platform, Gatheround.

With a focus on a different topic each time and welcoming a guest speaker to bring their own perspective and expertise, Portia Hart leads these inspiring, small-group sessions - designed to be a safe space where members are free to share their unique points of view and learn together.

With a focus on a different topic each time and welcoming a guest speaker to bring their own perspective and expertise, Portia Hart leads these inspiring, small-group sessions - designed to be a safe space where members are free to share their unique points of view and learn together.