All Articles About Travel & Tourism
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Blog: A Collaborative Approach in Myanmar
Chris Nolan, Associate Director, Advisory Services
In the frenzy to invest in Myanmar’s economic development, companies can work together to tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges. Read more →
Blog: What Happens in Vegas…Corporate ‘Sexual’ Responsibility?
By Christine Bader, Human Rights Advisor to BSR
One-third of all sex purchase happens on business travel. Is the company responsible for what employees do after hours? Read more →
BSR Insight Article: New Emissions Reporting Guidelines for Banks on Investment Footprints
Andrew Matthews, Associate, Advisory Services
Of the financial services companies who responded to the 2012 Carbon Disclosure Project Global 500, 72 percent reported on one or more Scope 3 categories (emissions stemming from the value chain). Read more
BSR Insight Article: What Total Cost of Ownership Offers Sustainable Procurement
Jessica Davis Pluess, Manager, Research
What if procurement and sustainability managers in your company spoke the same language? It's likely that the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO) would find its way into the conversation. For procurement managers, TCO captures the costs associated with a product over its lifetime—from the development and design of a product through its use, maintenance, and disposal. Similar to the way sustainability managers think about the impacts of a product on the environment and society throughout its lifecycle, TCO takes a long-term view of the value a product brings to a company by evaluating the direct and indirect costs of a product at the time of purchase. Over the next few months, BSR's new Center for Sustainable Procurement (CSP) will be exploring ways the TCO model and its application could support the incorporation of sustainability information and data into procurement decisions. Is there an opportunity to align TCO and lifecycle assessment (LCA) information to form a total impact and ownership model? Read more
BSR Insight Article: Local Engagement in Travel and Tourism
Stéphanie Leblanc, Communications Manager, Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Whether living in the global North or South, many people travel between May and August. The United Nations World Travel Organization estimates that there will be 450 million tourists during this period, which will contribute to the milestone of 1 billion annual international travelers in 2012. With this surge in travel, sustainability questions are critical. Although carbon emissions and environmental impacts should be a central focus, they will not be achieved without community involvement. Infrastructural development is a crucial aspect of global tourism, but without a triple-bottom-line approach, it can harm both local economic development and the ecosystems that are attracting tourists in the first place. The importance of community engagement in travel and tourism was emphasized earlier this year at a session for the Americas Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council: "The people have to be involved. If you do not involve communities in the long term, they will not have a social memory [about conservation]." --José Koechlin, Chairman and CEO, Inkaterra (May 17, 2012) Visit BSR's Travel & Tourism industry page for more information about our work with this industry. Read more
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