Each year, we work with carbon experts ecollective to accurately measure every step we take – from the holidays we create to the impact of our office and staff. And we’re not ignoring the biggest carbon issue facing almost every travel company – flights.

We measure all of our trips, around 450 across 19 countries, including the impact of accommodation, meals and any transfers, along with every flight, rail journey or ferry booked for our customers to get to and from their holidays with us. This gives us a carbon score for each and every trip we offer, and you can find these scores on the individual holiday webpages. We also provide more background information on our carbon scores here.

In addition we measure the impact of our office operations, every trip we need to make in order to manage our holidays, along with staff commuting, and even carbon emissions associated with working remotely.

For a more in-depth view of the process, take a look at this interview with our project coordinator.

Measuring our footprint each year is a challenge, but the hard work doesn't stop there! We then separate all our impacts into three key areas; transportation to our holidays (mostly flights, but also rail), the holidays themselves, and finally the operational side of our business (our office, homeworking, websites etc).

We publish the reductions that we make each year on those three key areas, keeping ourselves to account and being completely honest about our successes and failures.

Measuring and reducing our impact on our natural world is the single most important action we can take to protect our futures. But it takes time, and reducing the impact isn’t enough on its own. We need to invest in nature, care for our landscapes, allowing them to regenerate and ultimately thrive once more. As well as the physical benefits – helping to clear our air and clean our water sources – doing this also aids our mental health, and it is business critical: our holidays simply wouldn’t be the same without the natural beauty around us, underpinning the amazing communities we visit and love.

We’re not only investing in nature, we’re investing in technologies to remove existing carbon from our world. There are a variety of options to do this; from afforestation and nature-based technologies, through to manmade and engineered technologies, such as carbon capture and storage. We are committed to being part of the solution, and as part of this we work closely with our partner, carbon-removal expert Klimate, to help scale some of these projects.

We fund this work by adding £10 per person to the price of all Inntravel holidays. All of the monies raised through this initiative are given directly to our mitigation partners – view our full list of partners here.

…and collaborate. It’s all about telling stories, celebrating our victories and holding our hands up when we get it wrong. We do this with our peers across the industry, with our wonderful suppliers and partners and of course with our customers. It is about bringing everyone with us on this journey.