Climate Emergency Action Plan

In January 2020, just as the spectre of the covid 19 pandemic was on the horizon, we joined hundreds of tourism operators and stake holders across the globe in officially declaring a climate emergency and pledged to draft a climate emergency plan within 12 months. As the realisation slowly dawned and the true impact of the pandemic came to light we had to put the brakes on many of our plans. But we continued to work away in the background.

We are now very excited to announce we have published our climate emergency action plan. The plan highlights the areas of our business we identify as impacting on the environment and generating emissions, what we are already doing to tackle this and what we plan to do for the future. As a working document we will be updating it regularly.

Covid 19 Response

Tanzania opens borders to international travel

Covid 19 has turned much of the world upside down over the last few months. It’s been extremely challenging for families, businesses and Institutions alike. The tourism industry has been hit particularly hard and, although necessary, it’s been hard to witness the complete halt of international tourism in the country.

Tanzania was quick to close it’s borders and that may be part of the reason up until now, the country has been relatively mildly hit by the covid 19 outbreak. As of the 18th May Tanzania announced it was reopening its borders and has lifted the 14 day quarantine for arriving international visitors https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/tanzania.

Temperature checks are still being carried out and track and trace information is collected at border controls at all major international airports across the country.

Tourists are slowly trickling back and many find they now have the once crowded Serengeti pretty much to themselves. In some ways this has been brilliant for wildlife. Unfortunately the drop in revenue makes it harder to enforce anti-poaching efforts and communities bordering the Serengeti are also feeling the hit from the drop in tourist numbers.

Despite this we remain hopeful tourism will bounce back, greener and better than ever before and we look forward to welcoming you to Tanzania to experience her wonders.

Please check with your country of origin regarding quarantine measures on return from Tanzania.

For all in-country related covid 19 enquiries call the national health emergency number 199 .

We Declare a Climate Emergency

We’ve signed up to Tourism Declares, an initiative that supports tourism businesses, organisations and individuals in declaring a climate emergency and taking purposeful action to reduce their carbon emissions as per the advice from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030. 

Like all signatories, we have committed to the following five actions:

1. Develop a ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ within the next 12 months, which sets out our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade.

2. Share an initial public declaration of our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’, and update on progress each year.

3. Accept current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the travel services sold by us. 

4. Encourage our suppliers and partners to make the same declaration; sharing best practice amongst peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community

5. Sdvocate for change. We recognise the need for system change across the industry, and call for urgent regulatory action to accelerate the transition towards zero carbon air travel.

Please consider also declaring at www.tourismdeclares.com, and follow on @tourismdeclares on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin