SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

Bali, Indone­sia, Octo­ber 2, 2023: In the icon­ic glob­al tour­ism centre of Bali, SUN^x — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — announced that it was launch­ing a new social enter­prise for Cli­mate Friendly Trav­el­lers, the Cli­mate Friendly Travel Club.

Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUN^x, announced this dur­ing the World Tour­ism Net­work (WTN)’s TIME Sum­mit with the form­al sig­na­ture of an SDG 17 Agree­ment with WTN.

Lip­man said: “The Cli­mate Friendly Travel Club is anoth­er step in our 2030 Strategy to help devel­op­ing and small island states respond to the code red cli­mate crisis using clean and green tour­ism as an eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment lifeline. 

“It is sym­bol­ic of our com­mit­ment to social devel­op­ment and justice, through Cli­mate Friendly Travel. 

“The fact that we are launch­ing here in Bali is because it is a great case study for the oppor­tun­it­ies that the right kind of respect­ful tour­ism presents. 

“But these oppor­tun­it­ies can only be cap­it­al­ised on if we can factor in the need to pre­pare for the inev­it­able extreme weath­er impacts of the man-made cli­mate crisis. 

“By link­ing cli­mate-con­scious trav­el­lers with com­mit­ted tour­ism com­munit­ies and com­pan­ies, we will sup­port a just trans­ition to the new cli­mate eco­nomy using the tried and tested loy­alty club meth­od. In the com­ing months we will be unveil­ing rewards for our club mem­bers with our rap­idly expand­ing Cli­mate Friendly Travel net­work of loc­al com­munity boutique hos­pit­al­ity operators. 

“Sim­ul­tan­eously we will increase our advocacy for clean avi­ation as an essen­tial ele­ment of Cli­mate Friendly Travel.”

Lip­man con­cluded by intro­du­cing industry vet­er­ans Ged Brown, Founder, Low Sea­son Trav­el­ler, as Chief Exec­ut­ive of CFTC, and Dr Jens Thraen­hart, former CEO Bar­ba­dos Tour­ism Mar­ket­ing, as Chief Mar­ket­ing Officer. 

He also announced that enter­tain­ment star Alston Koch was cre­at­ing a Med­ley of Cool Cli­mate Music to sup­port CFTC.

About SUNx Malta — Strong Universal Network

SUN^x Malta is a leg­acy for the late Maurice Strong, fath­er of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Its goal is to advance Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) ~ low car­bon : SDG linked : Par­is 1.5°C.

SUN^x has a core part­ner­ship with Malta’s Min­istry of Tour­ism & Con­sumer Pro­tec­tion and Malta Tour­ism Author­ity to advance Cli­mate Friendly Travel, to cre­ate a UNFC­CC-linked CFT Registry, and to pro­mote CFT Education. 

By 2030, SUN^x plans to put in place 100,000 Strong Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons across all UN States via a net­work of Strong Cli­mate Friendly Travel Chapters.

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