Minister Konrad Mizzi participates in session organised by SunX Malta
during WTM fair in London
At the
World Travel Market fair in London, the Global Institute for Climate Friendly
Travel SunX, attracted interest from several stakeholders in the aviation and
tourism industry, whereas this institute, based in Malta, together with the
Ministry for Tourism and the Malta Tourism Authority, organised a session for
those present at the fair about the realities and plans that the institute is
offering with regards to climate change.
The
Ministry for Tourism had taken the lead in setting up the Global Institute for
Climate Friendly Travel in collaboration with SunX, and this institute has now
continued to grow. Through the initiative, Minister for Tourism Konrad Mizzi,
who was present in London and addressed the audience, emphasised that the
Ministry will work with stakeholders across the travel and tourism sectors to
propose and implement climate-friendly measures. This will enable our industry
to be proactive in forging pragmatic solutions, which will reduce our carbon
footprint whilst recognising that travel is beautiful.
Minister
Mizzi added that the Ministry for Tourism and SunX are now working on a
dynamic, blockchain technology-enabled repository, with which global companies
and local organisations will measure their travel carbon footprint.
Professor
Geoffrey Lipman, co-creator of SUNx, added that, “There are known challenges in
transformation – including the complexity of long-term targeting, the problem
of aviation to find a synthetic, non-carbon emitting fuel, the enormity of
absorbing new innovation technology, as well as the need to prepare future
generations of travel companies and travellers themselves.” He said that SUNx
Plan for our Kids would develop support tools and mechanisms to help this
transformation, and would seek to instil the concept of climate friendly travel
into industry and government decision-making processes.