RESPIRE, Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain (Association)

What RESPIRE, Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain (Association) does

RESPIRE – Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain is a French non-profit association (association loi 1901, RNA W751257339) founded in 2020 and headquartered in Paris, with a small team of approximately 12 employees. The association functions as an independent community and thought-leadership platform that aggregates tourism professionals — including agencies, accommodation providers, schools, and partners — committed to accelerating the transition of the tourism sector toward sustainability, responsibility, and anti-greenwashing practices.

The association's core offerings are community-driven rather than technology-driven: a collaborative member platform providing databases, videoconferencing, skill exchanges, and negotiated professional solutions; the annual "Respirations Durables" flagship event series (Paris in 2025, Toulouse in 2026); the "Les Souffles de Demain" webinar series distributed on YouTube; thought-leadership frameworks such as the 2020 White Paper (Livre Blanc) and the "10 Engagements pour un tourisme vertueux" guideline; and participation in industry trade shows including IFTM Top Resa via the Village des Initiatives Durables. Digital infrastructure consists of the respire.travel website serving as the membership and event hub, alongside standard social media channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube).

The business model is membership-based: website content is freely accessible (freemium), while paid membership provides access to the collaborative platform, pooled tools, and event programming. There is no external equity, debt funding, or parent company disclosed. The organization is governed by volunteer professionals with President Sabri Trabelsi and Vice-President Emilyne Chaumont leading the association. Revenue is not publicly disclosed and operating scale remains modest, with no evidence of enterprise-customer revenue concentration.

Name

RESPIRE, Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain (Association)

Legal name

RESPIRE – Le tourisme de demain (Association loi 1901)

Website

https://respire.travel

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RESPIRE, Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain is a French non-profit association founded in 2020 that aggregates tourism professionals through events, webinars, a collaborative member platform, and frameworks like the "10 Engagements pour un tourisme vertueux" to accelerate sustainable tourism transition and combat greenwashing in France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel and Tourism Industry Association

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability Training, Consulting & ESG Advisory (Operational Playbooks, Staff Training) (THAAANAL)

Keywords

• Sustainable tourism
• Responsible tourism
• Tourism collective
• Tourism industry association
• Professional networking

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: RESPIRE generates revenue through membership fees from professionals joining the association. Members gain access to collaborative platforms, databases, video conferencing, skill exchanges, and negotiated professional solutions. The membership supports the association's mission to accelerate sustainable tourism transition.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

RESPIRE is a non-profit association that federates tourism professionals around sustainable and responsible tourism. It sells paid annual memberships that grant access to a collaborative platform (databases, video conferencing, skill exchanges, negotiated professional solutions), and runs paid/free flagship events such as the Respirations Durables conference series and the Les Souffles de Demain webinar series, alongside advocacy frameworks like the 10 Engagements for Virtuous Tourism.

Product overview

RESPIRE, Le Collectif du Tourisme de Demain is a non-profit association founded in 2020 that operates as a catalyst for sustainable tourism transformation in France. Rather than offering a unified software product, Respire provides a portfolio of community-driven services including event organization (Respirations Durables, IFTM workshops), educational webinars (Les Souffles de Demain), a collaborative digital platform for members, professional networking, and advocacy frameworks such as the '10 Engagements' for virtuous tourism. The organization positions itself as a network of mutual aid and a laboratory for sustainable tourism initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Respirations Durables Annual flagship event series bringing together tourism professionals (agencies, hosts, schools, partners) to share best practices, network, and co-construct sustainable tourism solutions through conferences, workshops, and collaborative sessions.
• Webinaires Les Souffles de Demain Online webinar series featuring discussions and testimonials on sustainable tourism topics, available on YouTube for professional development and thought leadership.
• Collaborative Member Platform Digital platform providing members with databases, video conferencing, skill-sharing, pooled tools, and negotiated professional solutions for sustainable tourism practitioners.
• Networking and Federation Services Professional networking activities connecting tourism professionals from diverse backgrounds to foster collective intelligence, experience sharing, and reflection on sector challenges in France and internationally.
• 10 Engagements for Virtuous Tourism Ten concrete commitments for transforming tourism practices, including carbon footprint display, low-carbon alternatives, sobriety in products, professional compensation, mass training, accessibility standards, reduced professional travel, co-governance with residents, label simplification, and traveler education.
• RESPIRE Membership Annual paid membership granting tourism professionals access to the collaborative platform, databases, video conferencing, skill exchanges, negotiated professional solutions, and member events.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• La Cantine by La Mêlée ToulousecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2026La Cantine by La Mêlée Toulouse hosts the Respirations Durables 2026 event. This third-place venue dedicated to innovation, digital technology, and impact projects provides an ideal setting for discussions on sustainable tourism, AI, and peace. The venue brings together entrepreneurs, local authorities, associations, schools, and citizens.
• IFTM Top ResacoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 25 September 2025RESPIRE partnered with IFTM Top Resa to co-animate workshops in the Village des Initiatives Durables, a new immersive space dedicated to innovation in sustainable tourism. This partnership enabled the association to reach tourism professionals through interactive workshops, micro-formations, networking, and collective intelligence sessions.
• Agence française des Chemins de CompostelleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRESPIRE co-hosts roundtable discussions on tourism as a lever for peace and inclusion with the French Agency of the Ways of Saint James (Compostelle), collaborating on live discussions and shared programming.
• Jardin21minorOthersJardin21 in Paris hosted the Respirations Durables 2025 event, serving as a venue partner for the association's flagship gathering.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Travelife: Travelife provides sustainability certification and training specifically for tour operators and accommodations. It overlaps with RESPIRE's mission of advancing sustainable tourism practices, but focuses on formal certification rather than collective advocacy.
• EarthCheck: EarthCheck is a science-based environmental certification and benchmarking program for the travel and tourism industry. It addresses similar sustainability objectives as RESPIRE through a more formalized certification approach targeting hotels, tours, and destinations.
• Green Destinations: Green Destinations is a global certification and knowledge network for sustainable destination management. It shares RESPIRE's focus on sustainable tourism best practices, particularly at the destination level, and operates an annual Top 100 Sustainable Destinations program.

Regional players

• European Travel Commission (ETC): ETC is a regional umbrella organization representing national tourism boards across Europe. While operating at the destination promotion level rather than as a professional association, its European-level sustainability initiatives create adjacent comparability for RESPIRE's international ambitions.

Direct peers

• ATR (Agir pour un Tourisme Responsable): ATR is a French association and label dedicated to responsible and sustainable tourism. It operates a similar membership-based collective model for French tourism professionals, making it the closest direct comparable to RESPIRE in terms of geography, mission, and member profile.
• ATD (Acteurs du Tourisme Durable): ATD is a French network bringing together tourism stakeholders committed to sustainable development. Like RESPIRE, it focuses on federation, capacity building, and best practice sharing within the French tourism sector, making it a directly comparable professional collective.

Broad incumbents

• WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council): WTTC is the global tourism industry body representing the private sector, with growing sustainability initiatives. While broader in scope than RESPIRE, its sustainability work and member-driven advocacy model create relevant comparability for understanding ecosystem dynamics.
• Sustainable Hospitality Alliance: The Sustainable Hospitality Alliance is a global coalition of leading hotel companies working on environmental and social sustainability. It addresses overlapping themes with RESPIRE but operates at corporate hospitality industry level rather than as a professional association.
• GSTC (Global Sustainable Tourism Council): GSTC is the global standards-setting body for sustainable tourism, providing widely recognized criteria and certification frameworks. It operates at international scale with overlapping mission but broader authority, positioning it as the global incumbent counterpart to RESPIRE's French-focused efforts.

Others

• Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency: Tourism Declares is a movement of tourism organizations committing to climate emergency action, sharing RESPIRE's anti-greenwashing and sustainability advocacy ethos. It functions as an adjacent movement rather than a direct competing association, but addresses overlapping stakeholder concerns.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@respireletourismededemain4496
• Facebookfacebook.com/respireletourismededemain
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/respire-le-tourisme-de-demain
• Instagraminstagram.com/respire_letourismededemain?igsh=dDlhMnpnbXZwbWo2

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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