I write, speak and advise on sustainable tourism, focussing primarily on our response to climate change.

Over the last few years I have spent most of my time accelerating tourism’s response to the climate crisis. In 2020 I co-founded Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency, a grassroots initiative calling on tourism destinations and businesses to work together on equitable science-based climate action. Skift said we were “leading the charge for the travel industry to commit to cutting their carbon emissions in half by 2030”. In 2021 we won Regenerative Travel’s Initiative of the Year.

In 2021, I was a co-author of the UN Tourism-led Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism, which built on Tourism Declares’ climate action framework, and launched at COP26 in Glasgow. It is now the largest ever coalition in tourism to work on climate action, with over 800 signatories from countries and cities to companies big and small committing to work together on the biggest challenge we all face.

I am currently working on various climate related projects, including with UN Tourism to ensure the implementation of the Glasgow Declaration’s commitments over the next decade, with the Travel Foundation developing their Climate Action Programme, and various independent projects.

I speak regularly about responsible and sustainable tourism, delivering keynotes, webinars and workshops around Europe and online. I teach a course on sustainable tourism at Excelia University in la Rochelle. And I sit on the advisory boards of the Future of Tourism Coalition and Travalyst.

My most recent book looking at how to build a sustainable travel industry - Transforming Travel - realising the potential of sustainable tourism - was published in January 2019.

From 2013-2020 I wrote a fortnightly blog on responsible tourism for World Travel Market. I also co-founded (and used to edit) Travindy, the first travel industry news site to focus on the ideas, innovations and issues shaping a sustainable future for tourism.

In 2009 I co-wrote (with Richard Hammond of Greentraveller) Clean Breaks - 500 New Ways to See the World, Rough Guides' first and only guidebook dedicated to sustainable tourism. It won Planeta's guidebook of the year, and sold around 30,000 copies.

From 2001-2007 I edited The Ecologist, the world's longest running environmental magazine.