In our third iteration of this franchise, we've selected trailblazers who have demonstrated a positive impact on the travel industry in or celebrated a significant milestone in their efforts to prove how travel can move our world forward. Their unique and pioneering approaches straddle the realms of sustainability , community, inclusion, accessibility, conservation , innovation, and wellness a category we've added for the first time this year.
Some of the honourees on the Bright Ideas in Travel list are making a point of thinking big: managing a worldwide wildlife census, creating an open-source map with hundreds of thousands of users, even creating trails and bike paths that span an entire country or eight. But more focused projects can have just as powerful an impact when they direct their attention to the needs of a community β or the experiences of individual travellers.
This year's honourees range from countries, airlines , and tech giants to startups, small nonprofits, and even a handful of operations that started out as one-person shows. Read more here. SWISS plans to be the first airline in the world to fly with solar kerosene, a carbon-neutral fuel made using sunlight.
The plant, located in Germany, is fully operational and the first commercial plant is projected to open in with the goal of producing 1 million tons of solar fuel annually by These big plans have been made possible, in part, by the aviation industry. In fact, SWISS plans to be the first airline in the world to fly with solar kerosene, though the exact timeline is still in flux and the fuel will only be available in small quantities, at first.
SWISS is aiming to secure the first solar fuel delivery within the year. When power wheelchair PWC users fly, they typically have to check their chair, be taken to their seat by an airport staff member, and spend the duration of the flight without the mobility and custom support their chair provides. Not only that, in , around 1. But in May , Delta Flight Products β the Delta subsidiary in charge of airplane interiors β unveiled the latest prototypes of PWC-compatible economy and first-class seats, as well as an accessible lavatory design.
