Sustainable Travel International Adds Hotels to Carbon Calculator

SEATTLE, WA (July 17, 2025)  – Sustainable Travel International has expanded its industry-leading carbon footprint calculator to include hotel stays, enabling travelers and businesses to measure and offset the emissions associated with their accommodations. This enhancement strengthens the organization’s suite of climate solutions, enabling the industry’s transition to a low-carbon future while providing effective ways to protect the planet that tourism depends on.

Sustainable Travel International’s updated carbon footprint calculator makes measuring emissions from overnight stays easy, from budget lodgings to luxury resorts. Users can quickly calculate their accommodation footprint by inputting details such as destination, length of stay, and property star rating. This enhancement strikes a balance between accuracy and ease, leveraging the most up-to-date global hotel data to provide reliable estimates while maintaining a streamlined user experience. With this addition, the calculator now offers a more comprehensive tool for measuring travel-related emissions, covering commercial flights, private jets, cruises, cars, yachts, liveaboards, and accommodations.

“Travelers are increasingly aware of their environmental footprint and looking for ways to take action,” said Paloma Zapata, CEO of Sustainable Travel International. “Accommodations are an integral part of the travel experience, and incorporating them into our calculator creates a more complete solution for travelers and the tourism industry to manage their carbon liability.”

As the industry works to reduce its impact, the World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance reports that hotels must cut carbon emissions by 66% by 2030 and 90% by 2050 to prevent their projected growth from driving up emissions. While many hotels are making strides in decarbonization through the adoption of renewable energy, efficiency upgrades, and other sustainability initiatives, these transitions take time. In the meantime, carbon offsets provide travelers, travel companies, and corporate travel managers a way to mitigate the impact of unavoidable lodging-related emissions. These offsets support Sustainable Travel International’s Climate Impact Portfolio—a carefully curated mix of verified projects that tackle emissions from multiple angles, including ecosystem conservation, renewable and efficient energy, and innovative carbon removal technologies.

The calculator complements Sustainable Travel International’s business carbon measurement solutions for hotels, tour operators, and other companies that wish to calculate their footprint in more detail. This includes online footprinting tools for tours and events, corporate assessments, and an API, which integrates with travel software. Sustainable Travel International also conducts destination-level footprinting as part of its climate action planning work, helping governments and destination managers develop data-driven strategies to reduce tourism emissions.

To explore the new hotel feature and offset your stay, visit Sustainable Travel International’s travel carbon calculator at sustainabletravel.org/carbon-calculator. 

For more information, please contact [email protected]. 

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• Kaitlyn Brajcich, Sustainable Travel International – [email protected]

SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL

Sustainable Travel International is a social enterprise dedicated to protecting our planet’s most vulnerable destinations and transforming tourism’s impact on nature and people. We engage travelers, businesses, and destination leaders in responsible practices that safeguard nature, combat climate change and pollution, and empower communities to preserve the integrity of destinations around the world. Our comprehensive climate solutions help the travel industry reduce its carbon footprint, advance the global net zero transition, and strengthen its resilience to climate change impacts. To learn more, visit www.sustainabletravel.org.