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Sky News AU
4 days ago
- Sky News AU
Prince Harry's ‘travel summit' gaffe ‘hard to ignore' after spokesperson defends Duke of Sussex's travel record
Prince Harry's head-scratching decision to travel all the way to China for a brief appearance at a sustainable travel summit has faced fresh scrutiny. The Duke of Sussex made a surprise visit to Shanghai last week to attend Group's Envision 2025 Summit and the Travalyst Executive Summit. Harry, 40, is the founder of 'Travalyst', an organisation that promotes eco-travel and offers suggestions on how users can utilise trains or public transport where possible. It is understood that 'hosted' Harry in the Chinese megacity for the brief appearance before the ex-working royal turned around and made the 6,000 mile journey home. Veteran royal correspondent Jennie Bond believes the Duke of Sussex's decision to travel to Shanghai for just two short engagements appeared unintentionally ironic. 'The irony of flying across the world to promote sustainable, environmentally friendly travel is hard to ignore,' Ms Bond told The Mirror newspaper on Friday. 'Surely a video speech would have been more ethical?' Worse, Harry's trip to Shanghai also coincided with his father King Charles' historic visit to Canada. 'It seems to have made very little news at all. If the idea was to garner as much publicity for the cause as possible, (Shanghai) would seem to have fallen rather short,' Ms Bond said. The Sussex camp appears to have gone on the defence amid the scrutiny over the Shanghai visit. On Monday, a spokesperson told The Times newspaper that Harry has only travelled abroad three times in six years for Travalyst and typically works on the venture remotely. According to the carbon emissions calculator of FlightFree USA, a campaign group urging people to fly less, "avoiding this trip (Los Angeles to Shanghai) is as climate friendly as carpooling for 3.7 years". The calculator claimed that Harry's return flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai would cause more emissions of greenhouse gases in a single trip than 3.5 billion people emit over the course of a year. Somewhat surprisingly, Harry's visit to Shanghai marked the first time the jet-setting Duke had ever set foot in China. Since leaving royal duties over five years ago, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have maintained a heavy schedule of international travel, including faux 'royal tours' of Nigeria and Colombia.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Prince Harry Makes Surprise Trip to Shanghai and Tells Crowd a Major Lesson He's Learned in His Life
Prince Harry made a surprise trip to Shanghai, China to both give a keynote speech and host an executive summit. The Duke of Sussex traveled to Shanghai in support of his environmental initiative Travalyst, which he founded in 2019. Travalyst—which just celebrated its five-year anniversary last year—exists to help promote and give resources for environmentally-conscious week after his and Meghan Markle's seventh wedding anniversary, Prince Harry traveled to Shanghai, China to give a keynote speech and host an executive summit. The Duke of Sussex spoke at the Group's Envision 2025 Summit and hosted the Travalyst Executive Summit on May 26, according to a release sent to InStyle on Monday. In his speech at the event, Harry—who founded the nonprofit Travalyst in 2019 to help the world travel more sustainably—made a bold call to climate action, urging the Asia-Pacific travel industry to support sustainable travel and tourism. Harry's speech came after the release of Travalyst's Five-Year Milestone Report, where the organization highlighted travelers' power to drive positive change. Along with Harry's speech, this week Travalyst also launched its first two-day Executive Summit with industry leaders and policymakers, which is the first in a global series to drive action in the industry. 'Climate change isn't just an environmental challenge—it's a critical business emergency, costing the global economy $143 billion annually,' Harry said in his remarks. 'Now is the moment for the industry to reaffirm its commitment to being a force for good. Challenges will undoubtedly rise, but if there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that meaningful change never comes easily.' 'The true measure of our commitment is how we respond when the path becomes difficult,' he said. 'We must never give up.' Since its formation in 2019, Travalyst has grown from five partners to 13, the release added, representing a combined market value of over $3 trillion. As Harry traveled to Shanghai, his wife Meghan and daughter Princess Lilibet were seen taking part in some mother-daughter beekeeping on May 25, which Meghan posted to her Instagram Story set to the tune of The Archies' hit 'Sugar, Sugar.' Read the original article on InStyle
