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Responsibletravel.com
Responsible Travel is an activist travel company offering over 6,000 responsible holidays from 400 holiday providers around the world. In 2018 annual sales were £20.8m and the company took 16,500 passengers. It is one of the world’s largest green travel companies and an ABTA member. It is also a travel publisher and has published over 650 destination guides as of March 2019. The company sells holidays designed to maximise the benefit and minimise the harm involved in tourism and was the first of its kind in the world. Holidays are screened for their compliance with environmental, social and economic criteria with an emphasis on grassroot initiatives and local providers. The company asks travellers to leave reviews, rating their holidays and the social and environmental credentials from 5 to 1. Responsible Travel was founded in 2001 by Justin Francis (British entrepreneur) and Professor Harold Goodwin, Director at The International Centre for Responsible Tourism. Dame Anita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Francis (British Entrepreneur)
Justin Francis (born 19 August 1965) is an English social entrepreneur and environmentalist. He is the co-founder and Executive Chair of responsibletravel.com (founded in 2001), one of the world's largest green travel companies, selling holidays from around the world and publishing online travel guides and sustainable tourism, responsible tourism related content. Biography Justin Francis was born in 1965 in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, London, and grew up in Bathford, Somerset. He studied Geophysics at The University of Exeter after which he worked at advertising agency J. Walter Thompson for eight years. He joined The Body Shop as Social and Environmental Agenda Marketing Manager in 1997 and then went on to head up Worldwide Marketing Communications, working closely with Dame Anita Roddick. Responsible Travel Inspired by a nine-month stint camping and travelling around Africa, Francis went back to university in 1999 to study for a Masters in Tourism, Conservation and Sustainabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |