Carbon Offsets for Hotel Stays
As travelers become more mindful of their impact, they’re looking for hotels that are actively taking climate action, not just talking about it. From energy use to daily operations, hotels have opportunities to cut their footprint. As you work toward those reductions, carbon offsets help you take action on the emissions you haven’t yet reduced by supporting climate solutions beyond your property.
Two Ways to Get Started
Whether you want to offset your footprint or take a contribution-based approach, there are two practical ways to take action on your hotel’s emissions.
Measure Your Hotel Footprint
Use our Hotel Footprint Tool to estimate emissions across your property. This accounts for energy use, waste, and other operational inputs, giving you a baseline to guide reductions and determine what remains to be addressed through offsets.
Contribute 1% Per Stay
Another approach is to contribute a percentage tied to each stay. Many hotels allocate around 1% of each booking toward carbon offsets as a simple way to take climate action. This allows you to act right away while improving how you measure your emissions over time.
You're in Good Company
From major hotel groups to boutique B&Bs, accommodation providers of all shapes and sizes trust Sustainable Travel International.
Offsets That Accelerate Climate Action at Scale
Your offsets help fund climate solutions that go beyond what can be achieved within your hotel’s operations. They expand the impact of your hotel stays by supporting large-scale efforts to transform energy systems, protect vast landscapes, and advance emerging climate solutions. Our Climate Impact Portfolio includes:
Protecting and restoring forests that store carbon and provide wildlife habitats.
Supporting innovative climate technologies that help remove greenhouse gases.
Handpicked to Maximize Your Impact
We carefully vet every project that we include in our portfolio to ensure they create real, measurable emissions reductions and meaningful impacts.
Third-Party Verified
All projects are independently verified by stringent carbon standards, such as the gold standard and verified carbon standard. These standards ensure emissions reductions are achieved by evaluating criteria such as additionality, permanence, and leakage.
Our Due Diligence
We go beyond the baseline requirements, vetting each project via our own due diligence process to ensure its credibility. This includes verifying that the project is in good standing, reviewing its reputation in the press, and obtaining evidence of impact.
Benefits for Nature & People
We seek out projects that provide added social and environmental benefits that go beyond CO2 reduction and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For instance, protecting biodiversity, strengthening indigenous land rights, improving sanitation, or creating local jobs.
Help Guests Take Action Beyond Their Stay
Your hotel is just one part of a traveler’s journey. Give guests a way to estimate and offset emissions from flights, transportation, and other parts of their trip by embedding our travel carbon calculator on your website.
Meet the growing demand for sustainable hotels
69%
of travelers are committed to reducing or offsetting the carbon footprint of their trip.
73%
of travelers would be more likely to choose an accommodation if it has sustainability practices.
