Intrepid, Flight Centre join forces to fight modern slavery
Intrepid Travel has launched a new travel consortium in partnership with Flight Centre.
It is the first major collaboration aimed at addressing modern slavery supply chain risks across the tourism industry.
Walk Free, an international human rights group reported modern slavery impacted an estimated 50 million people in 2022.
Supply chains continue to present a great risk due to lack of transparency and access to resources, they say.
Intrepid has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to modern slavery in its own operations, and is taking this a step further.
With many shared suppliers, Intrepid and Flight Centre have established a joint effort to make a positive change.
The new consortium, established through the Informed365 platform, will engage with major suppliers, through an annual, online assessment to identify risks.
They will provide the support and tools so suppliers can improve their own practices and those of their own supply chain.
Industry suppliers will only need to complete the survey once, and can elect for it to be shared with other business partners.
They have begun to roll out these surveys and tools to their suppliers globally.
They are now actively encouraging other businesses to join the consortium to eliminate modern slavery in tourism.
“For so long businesses in every industry have ignored or fallen short of addressing the risks of modern slavery,” said Sara King, GM of Purpose for Intrepid Travel.
“We hope the tourism industry can lead this change in mindset for businesses everywhere”.
The travel consortium is open to all travel companies around the world that have reporting obligations related to modern slavery, whether they are legislated or voluntary.
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