Save water and promote social sustainability

>> Download free online information packs from the Travel Foundation

As a hotel or travel company, taking steps to conserve water and understand your business impacts on the surrounding community makes business sense on several levels.

Not only will it save you money and help to protect the environmental sustainability of the destination on which your business depends, it can promote more positive relations with local people who share the same water supply.

If their water access and quality is being compromised by hotels and resorts taking more than their fair share, tensions and resentment may arise.

This could threaten the positive holiday experience of your guests.

>> Download free online information packs from the Travel Foundation on how to make your accommodation more water friendly

Water for all - the business case for human rights in tourism

Access to freshwater is a fundamental human right recognised by the United Nations.

So as well as promoting more positive community relations, businesses (including in the tourism sector) have a responsibility to respect this right, and can play an important role in ensuring their activities do not have adverse impacts on local people.

>> For more information, download our industry breifing today and find out how it makes business sense to take the human rights approach

>> Read more about Tourism Concern’s Water Equity in Tourism programme (WET) programme