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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø SIR Education Series: How Climate-First Travelers Reveal the Future of Sustainability in Travel

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Thursday, August 20th, 2026
11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Is the travel industry moving toward its customers on sustainability, or quietly drifting away from them?

To answer the question travel leaders keep asking, do travelers really care, and will they pay for it, a new joint report from , ATTA, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø, and analyzed five datasets spanning more than 23,000 travelers and tour operators. The finding is more urgent than most assume: travelers are converging on sustainability faster than the industry expects, led by the Gen Z and Millennials who will define demand by 2030, even as operators quietly move climate down their priority lists. That gap is the biggest commercial risk, and opportunity, in the data.

Join us to unpack what it means for how you design, price, and sell travel. You will learn:

  • Why the sustainability-minded traveler is no longer a niche, with willingness-to-pay across the vanguard (99%), the mainstream (60%), and Gen Z (roughly 81%)

  • The "certification paradox": why 78% of engaged travelers say certification matters but only 8% can act on it at booking, and how to close the gap

  • Where operators and travelers align (local sourcing, community impact) and where they diverge (climate, communication)

  • Six low-cost actions you can take now, from surfacing sustainability at the booking moment to preparing for AI-driven discovery

Who should attend: tour operators, destination marketers, and product and marketing leaders building for the next decade of demand.

Thank you to the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø SIR Education Series sponsor, Crum & Forster.
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