Discounted Tickets for Outsider Readers to Attend Ireland’s Online Sustainable Tourism Conference

Discounted Tickets for Outsider Readers to Attend Ireland’s Online Sustainable Tourism Conference 

An online conference with the title Inspiring Sustainable Tourism will take place next Wednesday 25 January 2023 and Outsider readers that are keen to attend can enjoy a 20% discount on tickets. 

Organised by Sustainable Travel Ireland, this 9am-3pm event is a must-attend for forward-thinking tourism business owners and professionals who want to want to be inspired and informed about how to adopt and develop the best sustainable business practices. It will also focus on how to give your organisation a competitive edge. 

Tickets are on sale via Eventbrite. You can avail of a 20% discount using the code Outsider2023 prior to checkout.

The conference schedule is packed with practical advice and inspiration thanks to international and local speakers who have taken the lead in responsible and sustainable tourism in Ireland and abroad.

The line-up includes: 

Rob Holmes, Founder & Chief Strategist of GLP Films – Content Marketing and How to Tell Your Sustainability Story

Janie Neumann, Sustainable Tourism Manager at VisitScotland – The Scottish Experience with Sustainable Tourism

Alison Donnellan, SEAI – Exploring SEAI Resources and Grants 

Mark Henry, Director of Central Marketing at Tourism Ireland  – The Sustainability Imperative and Overseas Promotion

Sara Dolnicar, Professor of Tourism at The University of Queensland Australia – Influencing Human Behaviour in the area of Sustainability

James Chilton, Associate Director at KPMG Future Analytics – Embedding Sustainability into Destination Planning

Jenny De Saulles, Director of Sector Development at Fáilte Ireland – Tools to Reduce your Carbon Footprint 

For the full line-up and tickets, visit: Eventbrite.

The event is kindly sponsored by KPMG Future Analytics and Fáilte Ireland.

Sustainable Travel Ireland’s mission is to transform the Irish tourism industry into a regenerative business sector that respects and protects the environment, but also supports local communities and makes better places for people to live and work in.

Globally, tourism accounted for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2013*, making the sector a bigger polluter than the construction industry. 

However, as Ireland’s largest indigenous industry, tourism is vital to our economy, and particularly to the economy of rural Ireland.  

Speaking about the upcoming Inspiring Sustainable Tourism conference, Sustainable Travel Ireland Director Rob Rankin, stated:

“Tourists are also demanding more environmentally friendly and sustainable products and they are not happy when they can’t get them. So the tourism industry must step up – both to do the right thing by future generations and to meet their customers’ demand.

“Recent research released by Booking.com shows that 71% of global travellers say that they want to travel more sustainably over the coming 12 months – and that’s a 10% increase over what was surfaced through the company’s 2021 data. So there is both a strong business case and an environmental imperative for tourism businesses to up their game when it comes to sustainability.

“Our Inspiring Sustainable Tourism conference aims to educate and empower businesses about the often simple actions they can take to put sustainability at the heart of their plans. And we’ll show them how it can help not just the planet, but also boost a business’s reputation and bottom line.” 

Tickets are available via Eventbrite and cost €85.20. Outsider readers that are keen to attend can enjoy a 20% discount on tickets by using the discount code Outsider2023 prior to checkout. Further discounts are available for students (email: info@sustainabletravelireland.ie). 

* Research published in 2018 in Nature Climate Change found that worldwide, tourism accounted for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2013.

** Booking.com’s 2022 Sustainability Report