Celebrate SME Day with PATA International Member LightBlue Environmental Consulting
June 27, 2021 is Small and Medium Enterprises Day - SME Day! SMEs are the backbone of the tourism industry and play a significant role in its development. Their services include accommodations, catering, excursions, leisure activities, and more.
According to the OECD, these enterprises often take a dominant position in the supply chain in terms of their number of businesses, employees, and percentage of the industry’s profit. In other words, SMEs represent a big part of the tourism economy and these numbers are expected to increase in the future. Therefore, it is crucial to pay more attention and support SMEs, so we can strengthen the growth of the travel and tourism industry together.
As part of PATA’s mission to support the industry’s growth, we invited members of our SME community to discuss their business, share their upcoming initiatives, tell us their favourite part of being a PATA International Member, and celebrate their achievements with us.
LightBlue Environmental Consulting
LightBlue Environmental Consulting, based in Bangkok, Thailand, guides, trains and accompanies sustainability acts for businesses through food waste prevention and low carbon operations. This is accomplished through building a performance-based strategy that integrates key departments and leverages new metrics. They design and implement tech solutions that cut operational expenses, increase employee’s efficiency and improve organizations’ reputation by operating responsibly.
To learn more about LightBlue, members of PATA’s Intern Associates Programme spoke with Benjamin Lephilibert, their Founder and Managing Director. He discussed his company, as well as his experience so far as a PATA International Member.
Benjamin Lephilibert,
Founder & Managing Director, LightBlue Environmental Consulting
The Interviewers:
Sidney Kim, Communications Intern
Jihye Shin, Marketing Intern
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Introduction to Benjamin and LightBlue Environmental Consulting
“Could you tell us a bit about yourself?”
“What inspired LightBlue to become a PATA member?”
PATA Membership Experience
About LightBlue Environmental Consulting
“What does your company do?”
“Does you company have any post-recovery plans?”
“Could you tell us some of your past, ongoing or upcoming projects that you would like to mention?”
SMEs and the Travel and Tourism Industry
“How can the tourism community support the SMEs?”
“Is there anything you’d like to say before we end the call?”
To learn more about SMEs in the travel and tourism industry, download PATA’s report, published in collaboration with Agoda.com and Twenty31 Consulting Inc.. It provides a narrative and a forecast around the OTA/travel SME dynamic in Asia Pacific.
The PATA Crisis Resource Center offers a publicly available COVID-19 SME Kit, which includes crucial advice for SMEs to effectively manage their business during the pandemic.
Read the findings on COVID-19 impacts to Thai informal tourism workers to learn how this supply chain has been coping with the pandemic.