How does business take responsibility for their CO2 Footprint without negatively impacting return?
Most businesses (large and small) that have embraced a climate change and social responsibility policy have benefited from it.
- Reduced costs
- Increase turnover from new customers and happier existing customers
- Increased staff moral and willingness to help the business reduce waste and save energy
- Market leverage
- New products and services
We recommend tourism and travel operators take the following strategy.
- Know your business footprint. Get your CO2 audit done.
We recommend using Earthcheck. Designed specifically for the international sustainable tourism industry, and it’s low cost.
- Conduct benchmarking and apply measure, reduce, and offset strategies.
- Deliver customer voluntary offset and reporting solutions through Carbonza systems
- Available to users of the Procharter distribution system
- Embed APIs on consumer website
- Custom integrations in to reservation systems using .net
- Agent, wholesale and operator product revenue splits
- Return and update the business CO2 footprint regularly and add the customer voluntary offsets.
- Aim for Greenglobe sustainable tourism certification
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