At Travel Matters, we’ve organised holidays and travel for our clients for over 21 years. As we journey through our third decade of trading, we want to ensure we make travel matter, addressing not only our carbon footprint and measuring our social impact as a business but advocating and encouraging other travel organisations to consider theirs too.   

Before the pandemic, growth in travel had put the world’s treasured places at risk – environmentally, culturally, socially, and financially. Now, at the start of 2021, the travel sector has an unclear future due to the global pandemic but as tourism moves forward and recovers, resetting around a strong set of principles is vital for long term sustainable growth.  As supporters of the Future of Tourism coalition, as well as a member of Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency, we have joined Jump’s “Net Zero Challenge”. This aids us with our own commitment to our Climate Emergency Plan and helps us cut carbon emissions. As a business, we accept current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming.

In addition, agreeing with HRH Prince Charles, Travel Matters is a signatory of Terra Carta – a charter that offers the basis of a recovery plan to 2030 putting Nature, People and Planet at the heart of global value creation.

So we will be working together with Jump to encourage trade suppliers and travel partners to make similar commitments, advocating for change, by recognising the need for urgent action to accelerate the transition towards a net zero carbon future.

The Net Zero Challenge is a new digital programme that enables enterprises to easily get their staff engaged in sustainability.

Here at Travel Matters we’re finding that the Net Zero Challenge is a great way to get our team engaged in sustainability, which for us as a travel business is really important.  It’s a lot of fun, the app is really easy to use and one feature we really like is the leader boards as we want to be the best in our sector! Quite importantly, you get rewarded for your efforts too – in fact Maryna was last month’s winner of the Net Zero challenge.

We all need to take action to reduce our carbon emissions and halt warming of our planet, before it’s too late.

The Net Zero Challenge is a sustainability engagement tool which will accelerate your net zero carbon journey by encouraging your people to reduce their carbon footprint. Compete against other organisations in sector specific leader boards and reward your people for doing the right thing.

Good for your people, good for your organisation, good for the planet.