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Sustainable Cyprus: a Tui UK volunteering diary

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  • The Grand Finale...

    It’s an early start this morning as we have a meeting with the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) in the capital, Nicosia, and parking seems to be worse than London - and the driving worse than Cairo or Rome! Tired eyes are kickstarted by a frappe...

  • Day 4 - Tackling shampoos, trees and cars....

    It’s been another busy day in paradise as the start of a new week brings more meetings with some of the key stakeholders and movers and shakers here in Cyprus. My first meeting is with the Atlantica group. They have over 20 hotels now in Cyprus...

  • Day 3 - Working through the weekend

    Today is all about the Troodos mountain region. It is home to 25,000 Cypriots and our guide for the day, Panayiotis (a dead ringer for Des Lynam), is a born and bred Troodoian. He lives in Platres, which has a population of 200, and is desperate to ensure...

  • Day 2 in Cyprus

    Last night was another Mezze evening in a great spot that is in the buffer zone of southern Cyprus and northern Cyprus, right in the heart of the walled city of Nicosia - the "only divided capital in the world" as the sign on the wall tells...

  • Day 1

    So I arrived safe and sound in Larnaca yesterday with Tracey and Jez and checked into the Hilton Park in Nicosia. What becomes apparent when I see the agenda is that there are lots of different people to see and so I start to formulate questions and think...

  • Project Discovery - An Introduction

    Since 2006, employees from TUI Travel UK & Ireland have been participating on a voluntary basis in Project Discovery, an initiative developed in collaboration with the Travel Foundation – the UK’s leading sustainable tourism charity -...