Carbon Offsets for Trips and Tours
As travelers become more concerned about their impact on the planet, they are seeking out more sustainable tours and experiences. Tour operators and travel agents can meet this growing demand by designing trips that prioritize reducing emissions wherever possible. With climate change top of mind, this also means going beyond your own operations by investing in high-quality carbon offsets that advance climate solutions at scale.
How to Determine Your Tour Emissions
Measuring emissions from your tours can feel like a big task, but it doesn’t have to be. There are several ways to get started, depending on how precise you want to be and how many tours you want to evaluate. Start with a simple percentage or few tours to establish baselines, then expand to more tours over time
Start with 1%
If you want the simplest option, many tour operators offset about 1% of the tour price as a practical starting point. You can use our online carbon calculator to purchase offsets right away.
Calculate Emissions for a Tour
For a more precise approach, use our Tour Footprinting Tool to estimate emissions from transportation, accommodations, and activities for an individual itinerary.
Measure Multiple Tours at Once
Download our Tour Data Collection Template to organize the necessary details for each itinerary. Our team will calculate the emissions so you know how much to offset.
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From adventure tour operators to luxury agencies, travel companies 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 any tour operator or travel agency can achieve on its own. They expand the impact of your trips 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 Travelers Offset the Rest of Their Trip
Once you’ve offset your tours, you can also help travelers address other parts of their journey, such as flights to the departure point. Add our embeddable travel calculator to your website so guests can estimate and offset emissions from additional travel activities.
Meet the growing demand for sustainable travel
69%
of travelers are committed to reducing or offsetting the carbon footprint of their trip.
81%
of consumers feel that companies have a role to play in improving the environment.
