Tour operator calls for carbon labelling to become industry standard
Ilaria Grasso MacolaExplore Worldwide has called for carbon labelling to become an industry standard after improving its CO2 footprint following the measurement.
According to the tour operator, clearly stating the environmental impact of travel at the wider sector level will ensure consistency and ease comparison for customers.
First launched in March 2022, carbon labelling has led Explore Worldwide to rethink some of its tours, making changes where needed. These include replacing a bus journey with an overnight train in Laos as well as removing internal flights in the Azores and Pakistan.
“Where an experience or accommodation has turned out to have a lower carbon rating than we expected, we’ve worked out why, and how we can use it as a blueprint for the future,” said managing director Michael Edwards.
“Where the opposite has happened, and a part of the trip has an especially high carbon rating, we’ve looked at alternatives or, better still, we’ve worked with our suppliers to find ways to bring those ratings down.”
It comes as other travel businesses are following suit and started carbon labelling their proposition. Just on Thursday (21 September), Intrepid Travel announced it was carbon labelling more than 500 of its itineraries, including its top 100 trips.
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