BCD releases white paper on responsible travel management
BCD Travel hsd released a white paper calling for its clients to implement responsible travel management policies and procedures.
The white paper advises clients how to take a strategic approach to creating travel programmes that integrate with their organisations’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) goals and stakeholder requirements.
It claims the white paper looks beyond the “greening of travel” to broaden readers’ perception of the role business travel can play in furthering their organisations’ CSR goals.
Earlier this week, BCD Travel released its own internal CRS Principles.
Mary Ellen George, general manager of BCD Travel’s independent consulting division, Advito, which provided research for the white paper said: “It is crucial for companies to look closely at all the CSR directives that can be integrated in their travel programme.
“If they think their work is done by installing a carbon calculator and choosing a carbon offset partner, they will miss important social and ethical components.”
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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