We support sustainable tourism and do our best to ensure that your children and their children are able to enjoy a holiday as beautiful as the ones we offer you today. We recognise that demonstrating responsible business practices towards the environment and the communities within which we operate is key to our achievement of this long term goal.
The importance of sustainability in tourism has never been greater. In the words of Sir Richard Branson:
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment --- Sir Richard Branson (Sept 2006)
To prove we aren't all talk, ALL profits and dividends that Virgin Group receives from Virgin Holidays, Atlantic and Trains (estimated to be $3bn over the next 10 years) will be ploughed into research and investment to develop sustainable sources of energy.
In addition to this groundbreaking initiative, Richard has also offered $25m to anyone who can find an effective solution to climate change! But, if that tinkering you�ve been doing in your shed hasn�t quite come up with the answer yet, at least you know that in choosing Virgin Holidays for your getaway you are helping us to try and make a real difference.
We continually strive to make our business more sustainable. This includes auditing and improving our supply chains for sustainability performance, working with responsible tourism charities such as The Travel Foundation www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk and Tourism Concern www.tourismconcern.org.uk who help care for the places we all love to visit and ensuring that our head office operations are as green as possible.