Our Climate Action Plan

As an Australia and New Zealand-based business, we commit to 40 per cent domestic departures every year. Not only will this reduce carbon emissions, it will also reduce our reliance on international travel and support local businesses following the recent bushfires and pandemic.

We commit to only offering small group travel experiences and not increasing group sizes. Small group travel minimises negative impact on communities we visit and allows us to support smaller, locally-run businesses. We also commit to constantly reviewing how we can improve, for example, organising group airport transfers to take more cars off the road.

We love the slow travel trend – focusing on the journey, immersing yourself in local life and consciously minimising your impact. That’s why we’ve shortened our adventures and reduced the use of high-emission transport (think more public transport, bikes or hiking and less private vehicles and flights).

We’ve always discouraged the use of single-use plastics, but now it’s official. We’re rolling out a single-use plastics ban on all adventures (where possible). We’re in the process of adding the ban to our Itinerary Development Guidelines for ground teams and implementing the new procedures across all departures. Where this is out of our control, we’ll request that our ground teams avoid single-use plastics where possible and encourage them to ban these products within their organisations too.

While we already stay in and visit locally-run accommodation and restaurants on our adventures, we’ll audit current itineraries to ensure we’re doing everything we can to support the local economies of the places we visit.

We’re privileged to work with a range of charity partners and organisations supporting a variety of worthy causes. To take it one step further, we’ll also actively seek new partnerships with charities working on climate change and environmental causes with the aim to raise at least $100,000 per year for their initiatives.

Since 2020, we’ve partnered with Carbon Neutral to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of our operations. As part of our declaration, we’ll measure our current footprint and consistently review our carbon reduction progress.

We pledge to continuously measure, report on and reduce our carbon emissions and aim to become carbon neutral by 2025. Our partnership with Carbon Neutral and support of the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor project is just the first step. Subscribe to our annual climate newsletter to keep up-to-date with our progress.

We recognise the important role we play in promoting responsible travel practices within our community. We consider this responsibility a privilege and take it very seriously. So, to show leadership and maintain momentum within the travel industry, we’ll share our declaration with our ground operators and encourage them to join the movement.

We know we’ll be working hard on our climate-conscious initiatives, but we want you to know too. So we’ll send out an annual climate newsletter to keep you up-to-date with our progress.