Under the title “Guests in Paradise” TUI AG has published its Environment and Sustainability Report 2009/2010. The report documents the activities, progress, targets and performance indicators in sustainable development and meets the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the internationally recognized standard for sustainability reporting. “We firmly believe that sustainability and responsibility are key factors in a company’s economic success, in particular in difficult times. The report now presented lists numerous examples illustrating how we implement our responsibility to customers, employees, business associates, shareholders and society”, says Dr Peter Engelen, TUI AG Executive Board member whose responsibilities include Sustainable Development. He continues: “With the report we set out to make our social ‘investment’ visible.”
The key topics of the report include a comprehensive presentation of the Group’s biodiversity and climate strategy and the Code of Conduct binding on all employees. Apart from documenting measures to reduce energy consumption and emissions, the report provides an overview of the climate targets of the individual business sectors. Examples include energy consumption, which the Group reduced by around 4 per cent in 2009 versus the comparative period in 2008. The report also documents, for instance, numerous species preservation projects. In cooperation with the Federal Agency for Nature Protection, TUI’s Sustainability Management unit has, inter alia, prepared a brochure on species preservation to be distributed to holidaymakers worldwide. The report also presents additional practical measures along the value chain, such as initiatives by the TUI Group’s hotels and incoming agencies.
With the publication of the Sustainability Report, the Environmental Management and Sustainable Development department also celebrates its anniversary: As early as in 1990, TUI was the first large tour operator to establish its own environmental unit, which has continually engaged in activities both in Germany and abroad since then.
20 years of enviromental and sustainability management
- 1990 TUI is the first mainstream tour operator to set up an environmental management unit
- 1990 TUI launches destination monitoring to observe the state of the local environment
- 1991 TUI awards its first International Environment Award
- 1992 TUI’s first Environment Forum at the ITB fair in Berlin
- 1995 Active contribution to the Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Lanzarote
- 1995 The Annual Report starts to include environmental reporting
- 1995 TUI Sponsorship adopts its first charitable project in Hanover
- 1996 TUI selects the first Environment Champions
- 2000 TUI co-founds the Tour Operators‘ Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development
- 2000 The Preussag Foundation (now: TUI Foundation) is established
- 2001 TUI AG co-founds econsense
- 2003 Contribution to UNWTO’s Djerba Declaration on Tourism and Climate
- Change
- 2003 TUI Deutschland receives its ISO 14001 certificate
- 2004 TUI AG is listed on FTSE4Good
- 2004 TUI AG publishes the first Group Environment Report
- 2005 TUI AG receives its ISO 14001 certificate
- 2006 First involvement in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
- 2006 TUI AG joins the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- 2006 First EcoResort award for a Group hotel brand
- 2007 TUI AG publishes the first Group Sustainability Report
- 2007 TUI AG wins first place in the Good Company Ranking environment category
- 2007/08 Group-wide Year of the Dolphin campaign with the UNEP Bonn Convention
- 2007 Contribution to the UNWTO’s Davos Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change
- 2008 TUI AG signs the Diversity Charter
- 2008 TUI AG joins the Business & Biodiversity Initiative set up by the German Environ-ment Ministry
- 2009 TUI AG co-founds the sustainability initiative Futouris e. V.
