Delegates ultimately week’s Journey Journey World Summit in Panama have been the primary to listen to about three main initiatives that purpose to form the way forward for journey journey and foster world collaboration. All tied to this yr’s Summit theme of Connection, the important thing bulletins included:
- A brand new Membership Sustainability Dedication, which is able to harness the ATTA neighborhood’s collective information round sustainable practices
- A redesigned HUB platform and cellular app designed to foster dialog and collaboration in a web based area
- The upcoming launch of the new Journey.journey web site, which connects journey journey companies straight with sustainably-minded customers.
Because the ATTA celebrated its twentieth Summit and 20 years of management underneath CEO Shannon Stowell, these milestones have additionally shifted our focus ahead. For a lot of this yr, and all through the Summit, we’ve got been waiting for co-creating the way forward for journey journey – an effort to not predict, however to collectively determine what we would like the way forward for journey journey to be. Our hope is that as a deeply-connected neighborhood, we are able to crowdsource our information and work collectively to create that imaginative and prescient. Collectively, we are able to develop into stronger, extra resilient, and extra sustainable as rising challenges and obligations face the worldwide tourism business.
The Membership Sustainability Dedication: A Collective Name to Motion
For the previous 20 years, the ATTA and our members have been devoted to sustainability, main and supporting varied initiatives over the past 20 years. In 2024, we’re taking that dedication additional by launching our Membership Sustainability Dedication – a program designed to unite the journey journey neighborhood in making a proper dedication to sustainable practices.
We’re asking members for proof of their sustainability dedication in considered one of 3 ways: by a third-party certification program like Travelife and B Corp, by demonstrating progress in working in the direction of certification, or by taking part in third-party sustainability assessments resembling Nature Constructive Tourism.
The objective of this initiative is to unite the biggest sustainable journey neighborhood on the globe and create a unified framework that encourages members to not solely interact in sustainable practices but in addition to share their progress, challenges, and learnings with one another.
To assist members absolutely combine sustainable practices, the ATTA affords a community of sources, together with entry to key strategic companions who will assist companies obtain their sustainability targets in a neater, sooner, and extra accessible means. Members may also be granted entry to unique dialogue areas about sustainability on our HUB, in addition to devoted webinars and workshops.
Be taught extra in regards to the Membership Sustainability Dedication.
The New ATTA Member HUB: A Digital Area for World Connection
The launch of the brand-new ATTA Member HUB has been a few years within the making due to suggestions from our members, and was designed particularly with the wants of the ATTA neighborhood in thoughts. The net platform encompasses a user-friendly interface that makes it simpler than ever to attach, share, and interact with one another – from wherever on the globe.
The HUB, as it’s affectionately recognized, will function a vibrant social networking web site completely for ATTA members. It’s a area for sharing pictures and movies, participating in significant business discussions, and networking with friends, media, and extra – all yr lengthy. Moreover, The HUB will facilitate entry to membership advantages and a complete, interactive membership listing. We hope members will use the app to maintain the conversations going, interact with others in the neighborhood, and keep linked post-Summit and past.
Because the new HUB is now accessible as a cellular app, your complete ATTA neighborhood is true at members’ fingertips. This accessibility will make it simpler to seek out and construct connections, strengthen current relationships, and interact with the most recent bulletins, information, and analysis from ATTA.
Key particulars to know in regards to the new HUB embody:
- Revamped Person Interface: The brand new HUB encompasses a utterly redesigned look and performance, providing an array of instruments and options for a seamless expertise.
- Contacts and Posts Will Not Switch: Members are suggested to avoid wasting essential contacts, posts, or conversations they want to retain from the outdated platform as quickly as doable, as a result of these is not going to carry over to the brand new HUB.
- The HUB App is just not the Compass App: You should use the HUB year-round and the app is not going to shut after an occasion; the Compass App is for occasions solely and particular to every occasion for agendas, networking, and so on.
- Learn how to Entry the New HUB: The HUB is obtainable on a internet browser and as an app within the Apple App retailer and in Google Play for Android customers. You’ll sign up utilizing your ATTA account data. For those who don’t have an ATTA account, you may create one right here.
- Free Neighborhood Members: You continue to have entry to ATTA information and occasions within the HUB. To unlock much more options, we invite you to contemplate upgrading your membership for extra advantages.
This new digital area offers members the instruments they should keep linked and collaborate, even when separated by 1000’s of miles. It’s a tangible reflection of ATTA’s dedication to fostering and facilitating a vibrant, world community of journey journey professionals.
A New Journey.Journey: Sustainable Storytelling Ecosystem
Journey.Journey is the ATTA’s consumer-focused web site, and just like the HUB, it’s getting a well-deserved redesign. Whereas nonetheless in beta testing mode, the brand new web site was shared with a choose group of delegates through the Summit in Panama, and their suggestions will assist dictate the ending touches on the product.
The brand new Journey.Journey could have an enhanced back-end design that makes it simpler for tour operators to submit traveler-focused content material. Our strategic focus is to encourage customers to journey extra sustainably, and make it simpler for them to take action. By creating a worldwide journey journey storytelling ecosystem, we purpose to bridge the hole between vacationers searching for inspiration and the ATTA world community of sustainable journey companies and locations.
The ATTA neighborhood already prioritizes environmental and social accountability; with this new initiative, we purpose to encourage vacationers to make extra aware selections and produce these vacationers to the vetted locations and operators which can be a part of the ATTA neighborhood.
Able to study extra? There shall be a reside session to dive deep and discover the brand new platform held within the HUB on 1 November at 9 am PT. Register now.
Plan Your Journey for 2025
Now a longstanding Summit custom, the ultimate day’s ceremonial handoff between the present host and subsequent yr’s host vacation spot concluded the occasion. In entrance of a packed viewers, representatives from Panama and Chile shared the stage to trade items and formally announce that the subsequent Journey Journey World Summit will happen in Puerto Natales, Chile, from 13-16 October 2025.
Subsequent yr’s signature ATTA occasions at the moment are open for registration, with Purchaser and Media purposes coming quickly: