Travel Indochina’s green commitment
SYDNEY – Travel Indochina has become a Cleaner Climate accredited travel business, enabling it to provide clients with a range of carbon-offset projects to reduce the impact of their travel.
Travel Indochina managing director, Paul Hole, said he is proud of the company’s environmental record, and commitment to carbon reduction and sustainability.
“We see responsible tourism as going beyond cultural and economic values, which underpin all our tours, and aim to reduce the impact of our wholesale and retail offices where possible.
“We had our carbon emissions assessed in 2007, and have since been able to achieve a 35 percent reduction in our emissions.
“In 2010 we will be well on our way to ensuring we have a network of sales offices in Australia, the US and the UK where are our remaining emissions have been fully offset.â€
Hole said that an important option has been to offer clients offset programmes “that truly make a differenceâ€.
“Through Cleaner Climate, we have identified three projects that fit the bill perfectly.
â€The first is to provide offset contributions to a rice husk biomass project in Surin, Northeast Thailand. The first project of its kind in the province, it generates 65,700 MW hours of renewable electricity each year, decreasing agricultural waste, providing additional income to local farmers and improving soil quality.â€
The other projects involve generating renewable energy through small-scale hydro plants in China and India.
“These projects provide electricity to rural areas that have previously relied on forest wood burning and also create new, non-rural jobs for local employment.
“We also provide a web based carbon calculator for all clients to calculate and offset the impact of their travel. Offset contributions made go to further support these three projects.
“It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to being ‘responsible’, across all its guises,†Hole added.
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