Green Business Travel: Are Companies just talking ‘green’?

Posted in Blog by AirPlus Editor
Tags: environment, environmental commitment, green

Sabine Christiansen talked to Michael Fürer of AirPlus International.

(WMV-Video, 9.7 MB)

Christiansen and Fürer discussed the importance of environmental commitment in the business travel sector and how companies are ‘putting their money where their mouth is’ in the current crisis.

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Carbon offsetting

Posted in Your Ideas by tdomf_4bdba
Tags: Carbon offsetting, environment

I would appreciate it, if more agencies integrated a carbon offsetting option. The most online booking engines I know, don’t offer such an option. But as everybody knows, we have to change our travelling manners – the need of protecting the environmet should finally be accepted by all travel-managers and their – agencies.

This way I’d like to call on every business traveler, travel-manager and travel agency to support carbon offsetting programs and to think twice, if every business trip is needed.

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Putting the environment on the bill

Posted in Blog, Business Traveler by AirPlus Editor
Tags: Carbon Offset, environment, Poll

Despite rising costs, travel managers and business travelers are willing to incorporate not only the usual expenses into their travel budgets, but also environmental impact.

Some 32% of all travel planners consider it to be reasonable to use carbon-offset programs, which offset CO2 emissions through compensation payments. Another 39% want to wait for corresponding offers when costs for environmental impact between airlines and travelers are split. This is the result of a current survey of AirPlus Community members that was completed yesterday.

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