A climate emergency

No longer can we ignore the changes in the world around us, the difficult, the devastating, the inevitable without change. No longer can we separate ourselves as an industry from this problem. Tourism accounts for 8% of global greenhouse emissions, with air travel being a significant contributor.

We believe we are different. As a responsible tour operator we recognise we are part of the problem – and that we can be part of the solution. Therefore we are pleased to be a founding signatory of Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency, a group of travel businesses coming together to declare a climate emergency. 

We are already zero-waste-to-landfill in our head office, and we will become carbon neutral. Everyone booking with us from January 2020 will have their entire trip’s emissions offset using Gold Standard credits. Carbon neutrality allows us to act immediately while we take more time to develop the strategies needed to embed sustainability. In the next 12 months we will publish a public plan on how we will reduce our emissions, and those of our supply chain. We know we must measure our impact, reduce our footprint, and offset the residual.

We know we are not perfect. We are working hard to address areas of weakness. But we stand alongside a group of like-minded travel companies acknowledging the environment around us as a founding signatory of Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency. We will learn from one another, take responsibility for our actions (at an individual level, company level and industry level) and push for regulatory action, research and development.

There is no excuse for waiting, this is why we are acting now. We've created a climate action plan which directly addresses our impact and what we are doing to reduce it, using science-based targets.