Greening the world, Contiki-style
As part of Contiki’s efforts to promote and implement sustainable tourism practices and further prevent climate change, Contiki has announced that passengers will now be able to make their travel carbon neutral.
Contiki travellers will have the option to neutralise the carbon emissions generated by their flights, tour and accommodation by visiting the sustainable tourism section of the company’s website.
Tammy Marshall, managing director of Contiki said, “Climate change and its environmental impact are very important to Contiki’s young travellers. We felt it was essential to provide travellers with the option to personally make a contribution to reducing their carbon footprint.
“At Contiki we are also undertaking a number of other measures to reduce the impact of our business on the environment. Some of these include working with our hotel and excursion partners to reduce resource consumption and waste, and applying recycling and energy reduction programs to our own offices and operational facilities.
“Traveller’s conscious of the environmental impact of their travels can also rest assured that Contiki’s modern coaches are one of the ‘greenest’ ways to travel, with efficient and environmentally friendly fuels and less carbon emissions per passenger than most other forms of transport.”
After extensive research, Contiki has partnered with Climate Friendly in Australia and New Zealand to enable travellers to calculate the carbon emissions that will result from their flights, coach travel and accommodation and options to neutralise these.
The voluntary scheme gives passengers the option to pay a fee based on the per tonne cost to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
For more information visit www.contiki.com/sustainabletravel.
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