WHAT ARE THE TUI SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT AWARDS?

The TUI Sustainability Impact Awards create an opportunity for our suppliers within IT, Indirect, Cruise and Airline procurement areas to share their sustainable innovations, initiatives, and actions. The awards started in 2022 for our IT partners, as the ‘TUI Green IT Awards’ and following two successful iterations shining the spotlight on innovation and sustainable development, TUI has decided to grow the awards to cover additional business areas. The aim of these expanded awards has remained the same though; to create a community of change makers within our suppliers and partners. The awards have been designed to establish ongoing dialog and exploration with our partners to create a more sustainable future. Winners will be invited to share their knowledge with our TUI colleagues.

HOW DO THE AWARDS WORK?

There are four business areas that make up the awards: IT, INDIRECT, CRUISE AND AIRLINE. Each of these business areas will then have three awards focusing on key areas we have identified to drive sustainable action; PEOPLE, PLANET and PROGRESS.

Once each business area has awarded their winner for PEOPLE, PLANET and PROGRESS, there will be a final jury for all winners across the business whereby one winner in each category will get an additional special recognition for going above and beyond which will be chosen by a final jury including members of the GEC.

WHAT ARE THE THREE AWARD CATEGORIES?

PEOPLE: Empower to drive development. Initiatives which help local people and communities benefit from tourism. Find out more here.

PLANET: Reduce our footprint. Initiatives which reduce the environmental footprint of holidays. Find out more here.

PROGRESS: Accelerate the transformation. Initiatives which use scale to increase the positive social and environmental impact of holiday experiences. Find out more here.

HOW CAN WE SUBMIT OUR ENTRY?

Suppliers submit their sustainable initiative via an online survey, sharing information such as what problem they are solving, what their initiative was, how it was delivered, and what benefits were achieved. Importantly, we also ask what potential the project has for TUI & the tourism industry, and how TUI can support to drive this forward.

All entries will be reviewed and shortlisted ready for a final assessment by a panel of judges for each business area, who will choose the three category winners.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF ENTERING?

This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your amazing efforts that shouldn’t go unnoticed and will hopefully inspire and drive sustainable actions from others. We hope that you will take inspiration from other initiatives from other suppliers and entries. We will hold awards ceremonies for each area that invites the shortlisted winners from each domain; IT, INDIRECT, CRUISE and AIRLINE where winners will be announced, and attendees will have the opportunity to get together and discuss ideas with each other and TUI colleagues.

Winners will be advertised on the TUI Group website & social platforms and can share their achievement on their own platforms. Participants can become part of a community of changemakers to help drive sustainability.

Celebrating our 2024 winners

The TUI Green IT Award 2024 recognised exemplary initiatives and programmes by the tourism company's IT suppliers in the area of sustainability. The winners were announced at the TUI Campus in Hannover.

The winners of the TUI Green IT Award 2024:

  • In the "People" category: IBS Software – Futurepoint Drivers: This programme supports women from underprivileged background in Kerala, India, to become professional drivers and acquire behavioural competence skills. They are supported in their journey to becoming self-sufficient entrepreneurs earning a profitable livelihood. Participants are offered up-skilling opportunities in subjects including driving and car maintenance, interpersonal skills, communication, self-defence as well as financial literacy and legal awareness. The program offers a lifelong partnership for the candidates including financial support. The women can therefore create a better quality of life for themselves and their families.
  • In the "Planet" category: MarineXchange – MXP Enterprise Platform:  MXP Enterprise Platform utilizes latest technology to improve the sustainability performance of the cruise industry. Its business intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities reduce food waste by accurately predicting onboard consumption. MXP's focus on fuel consumption includes optimized route planning and CO2 emissions calculation, leading to significant fuel savings, efficient itinerary planning, and a direct reduction in environmental impact.
  • In the "Progress" category: Amadeus – Travel4Impact.[SK1]  Travel4Impact, an initiative of Amadeus and IE University, supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the travel and tourism industry to drive sustainable business models and digital innovations. Around 40 SMEs will be selected for the Launchpad phase, which will begin in September 2024.The programme has already helped more than 60 SMEs to increase the positive impact of their business and accelerate their digitalisation since its launch in 2021. Travel4Impact stands for networking, growth and forms a platform for knowledge exchange and mutual support within the travel industry.

In addition to the three winners, the jury emphasised two companies with a special mention. With both mentions, it emphasises the importance of partnerships for achieving sustainability goals:

  • Partnerships for sustainability: FLIGHTKEYS works together with TUI and other partners to reduce aviation's non-CO2 emissions through contrail avoidance. FLIGHTKEYS delivers contrail forecasts to flight dispatchers for the pre-planning phase, while providing pilots real-time decision support to avoid contrails in flight.
  • Prominate is one of the suppliers for the catering of TUI flights and relies on 100% sustainable and domestically recyclable materials. It is an example of how sustainability throughout TUI's value chain can only succeed in cooperation with suppliers and partners.