The Challenge of Travel Sustainability
As a travel sustainability pioneer, we collaborated with WWF to co-create TreadlighterTM (TLI), our proprietary sustainability audit tool. This benchmarks customers’ travel de-carbonisation activities against global best practice and identifies areas for improvement. Through this tool, we have helped customers to de-carbonise their travel programmes. Carbon reductions range from 18% to 42%.
Following a TLI audit, one of our customers, a University regularly listed in the top 10 Global Universities, requested our assistance in implementing a levy on all flights as part of implementing their Environmental Travel Sustainability Strategy.
Our Solution
We developed an end-to-end automated process that integrated the levy into the user booking flow. The levy, set at a fixed cost per flight, can be changed or amended by a simple click. The solution also provides reporting tools and detailed monthly reporting to track progress.
The Results
The solution was developed, tested, and once signed off, was followed by a successful launch ahead of schedule. All flights booked systematically by the University generate a carbon levy. The carbon levy is gathered centrally and put into a carbon reduction project to meet the University’s carbon reduction target.
“The delivery of integrated reporting of our carbon levy reduces the manual administration demands and improves accuracy and consistency of reporting.”
University Sustainability Strategy Project Manager