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ACTE's Global Corporate Social Responsibility Program

ACTE members know that implementing a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform into their core business strategy is good business, supports profitability, and effectuates positive social and environmental change. ACTE officially launched its CSR initiative as part of its global education curriculum in the fall of 2004, and since then has provided education on a variety of CSR-related programs to the business travel industry. ACTE was the first organization in the business travel industry to make CSR a key component of its business model and to hold both paper-less and carbon-low events. ACTE was also the first business travel industry association to introduce the issue of trafficking of women and children into its CSR curriculum. Now ACTE is taking the next step by working with the International Office of Migration (IOM) to discuss how the industry can tap into the migrant labor pool.

ACTE continues to innovate and push the business travel industry on integrating CSR policies into business travel programmes. In 2007, ACTE started the green leaf designation to help highlight those companies who have developed green technology tools for the business travel industry. In 2008, ACTE launched TransACTE as an environmentally preferable alternative to traditional trade shows.

ACTE wants to ensure that our industry is part of the green economy and supports just business and socially responsible practices. We welcome your input on the types of CSR-related topics that interest you. To offer your suggestions for topics, please contact Kate Farrell at [email protected].

On this site, please find resources for your organization to advance its own CSR commitment.

Quick Links

• CSR Education
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• CSR Resources
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• CSR Article Library
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• CSR Organizations

• CSR Committee
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• CSR Sponsors and Partners
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• CSR News
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• Share Your CSR Involvement

Recent Press Releases

ACTE 2009 Business Travel Spend Survey Predicts Tighter Purse Strings And Reduced Spending For 2009

Upcoming ACTE CSR Education

2008 ACTE Global Education Conference, Rome, 5-7 October 2008

• Duty of Care Workshop
• Managing the Pain/Cost of Green
• CSR Seminar: Possibilities and Problems – Labour Migration Issues Facing the Corporate Travel and Hospitality Industries

Visit the CSR Education Page for more upcoming ACTE events with CSR Education Sessions.

ACTE CSR Resources

Discover industry research about CSR in ACTE Connect. Have CSR research beneficial to the business travel community? Contact Melissa Jordan at [email protected] for more information.

Have a CSR-related tool or solution for the business travel industry? Exhibit it at one of ACTE's conferences in TransACTE. Contact Noel Lee at [email protected] for more information.