Save the Date for Upcoming ICHRIE SIG Sustainability and Innovations Meetings

Dear ICHRIE SIG Sustainability and Innovations Colleagues,

As the fall season progresses, Malu Boerwinkel, our SIG Vice-chair, and I are pleased to announce the schedule for our upcoming meetings. Please mark your calendars for:

• Thursday, December 12th at 18:00 CEST | 17:00 GMT | 12:00 EDT | 09:00 PDT

During these sessions, we plan to discuss a range of important topics, including:
• Insights and reflections from the NY Climate Week.
• The newly launched ESG Framework for Tourism (More Info).
• Highlights from the Thematic Day on Tourism at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan (Details).
• Developments from COP16 focused on Biodiversity (Learn More).
• Introduction of the GBTA Sustainable Procurement Standards for Hotels (Read More).

For our Education Practice section:
• We will explore effective and innovative practices for integrating sustainability into classroom discussions.

Sustainability Research (featuring a guest speaker):
• Our session will focus on Social Sustainability, covering topics such as social responsibility, community engagement, and cultural preservation. We would greatly appreciate your suggestions on additional aspects of social sustainability to explore. If you have conducted research in any specific area of social sustainability and are interested in presenting your findings at our SIG meeting, please share your ideas and feedback. You can reach out to Malu Boerwinkel with your ideas and contributions at [email protected]. We look forward to your valuable input!

The detailed agenda for each meeting will be distributed in advance.

Warm regards from Bonn and Maastricht,
Willy & Malu

MORE ABOUT THE ICHRIE SUSTAINABILTY & INNOVATION SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG): Sustainability and Innovation (memberclicks.net)