UK: Preferred Travel Group has developed a Climate Action Plan (CAP) in partnership with The Travel Foundation.
The parent company of Beyond Green, Beyond Green Travel, Preferred Hotels & Resorts and other brands, has created the CAP in partnership with The Travel Foundation, the non-profit sustainable tourism NGO.
The CAP, which builds on the organisation’s signing of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, is structured around the creation of a public-facing document that will define the company’s objectives and key actions to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero as soon as possible before 2050.
Aligned with the five pathways of the Glasgow Declaration, the CAP will integrate associate engagement and input from across the organisation to ensure integration and support throughout every department.
Preferred Travel Group worked with ecollective, a carbon consultancy based in the UK, to establish a baseline for its carbon emissions through a companywide measurement process.
An executive Climate Steering Committee and a Climate Action Task Force of associate volunteers have also been established to prioritise actions for the plan and climate action training sessions will build climate literacy, share best practices, and drive change.
The public-facing CAP document will be released in December this year, outlining Preferred Travel Group’s climate action priorities in the coming years.
Lindsey Ueberroth, CEO of Preferred Travel Group said: “At Preferred Travel Group, we are resolute in our dedication to harnessing the power of travel as a force for positive change.
“Building upon our core ‘Believe in Travel’ ideology, we are stepping up our commitment by actively investing in climate action leadership.”
Jeremy Sampson, CEO of The Travel Foundation said: “We’ve seen very few organisations across all of travel and tourism make such an extensive and integrated commitment to climate action as Preferred Travel Group and want to shine a light on the example they are setting.
“We’re proud to be their partner in this effort and are so pleased to see the way climate action is being meaningfully resourced, as well as the way strategic discussions on climate are engaging all employees across the organisation, no matter which team or level of leadership they serve on.”
Sustainable Hotel News spent the afternoon on a Hackney canal with Preferred Travel Group’s Beyond Green recently. You can read more about that here.