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Rhodes is an important destination for TUI to develop new sustainability
initiatives. The Destination Co-Lab Rhodes was founded for this purpose. Experiences
and initiatives from the Co-Lab Rhodes are to be transferred to other holiday destinations
and thus advance the industry in its sustainable transformation. Both approaches
count for TUI: the major strategic initiatives and smaller projects that can be
implemented immediately, are role models for other destinations and thus can have
a major impact. From now on, for example, the TUI service team on Rhodes travels
from hotel to hotel with new bikes. 30 e-bikes and 30 cargo bikes have arrived for
the 250 tour guides on the island.
The TUI bikes will help reduce emissions and provide the team with more environmentally
friendly transport options. The Rhodes team will use the e-bikes for distances longer
than a 40-minute walk, while regular bikes will be available to the team for distances
longer than 20 minutes. The number of cars available will be reduced from more than
100 to 60. By 2024, this number will be further reduced. The e-bikes pilot project
brings the island one step closer to its goal of being climate neutral by 2030.
“Short journeys by car are thus increasingly a thing of the past. Colleagues
in guest services are using e-bikes and bicycles when going from hotel to hotel
on the island. Only for longer distances will they continue to use cars. Co-Lab
Rhodes is the ideal place to launch the pilot project and gain insights,” says Sebastian
Ebel, CEO of TUI Group. TUI Group, the TUI Care Foundation and the governments of
the South Aegean region and Greece had joined forces in January 2022 and established
the Destination Co-Lab Rhodes to jointly develop a holiday destination sustainably
at all levels.
The e-bikes pilot project is part of TUI's sustainability
commitment. At the beginning of the year,
TUI presented its Sustainability Agenda. It includes ambitious plans and targets
to enable the positive effects of tourism to unfold and to significantly reduce
the company's ecological footprint. Emission reductions are an important part of
this commitment to more sustainability. 99 per cent of TUI's emissions are generated
in the airline, cruise and hotel sectors. TUI has set ambitious reduction targets
for 2030, which have been validated and confirmed by the independent Science Based
Targets initiative. However, emissions are also generated directly in the destinations
– albeit in comparatively smaller quantities. With its own strategy for sustainable
transport at the destination, TUI is working to reduce emissions in these areas
as well and will offer more sustainable alternatives for local transport at the
holiday destination. For TUI, every single initiative counts.
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