The industry

• The travel sector accounts for around 8% of the global carbon emissions

• In 2019 there were about 1.5 billion tourist arrivals world wide

• 333 million people worked in the tourism industry globally in 2019

• In 2020 68 million jobs were lost

• The tourism industry comes with issues such as destruction of natural habitat, biodiversity loss, workers rights violation, local people's loss of land ownership, plastic pollution, air pollution, noise pollution and so on

Source: World Travel and Tourism Council, Statista and UNEP

How I can help you

• Educate your business and staff on sustainable traveling

• Map business travels, create strategies and goals for carbon emission reduction

• Help hotels and other actors within the industry to improve their environmental performance

• Inspire your audience on how to travel by train

Checklist next time you travel

• When starting to plan, see if you can find a destination you don’t need to fly to

• If flying, climate compensates with a trustworthy partner

• For stay, choose environmentally friendly certified hotels or locally family-owned small-scale businesses

• Bring your reusables; water bottle, cup, fork, bag and plate

• Bring water improvement products to be able to refill your water bottle

• Bring environmentally friendly hygiene products since they can be hard to find

• Check out restaurants and markets serving, local, seasonal, organic and/or plant-based food

• Don’t take animal selfies and don’t interact with wild animals

• Don’t visit zoos or parks where animals are used and only support organisations and businesses to protect wildlife and increasing conservation efforts

Photo by Mukiibi John Elijah on Unsplash 

Interview regarding my trip to Hong Kong by train

My travels