Luxtripper, the luxury travel specialist, has today announced a partnership with Trees4Travel to allow its customers to offset the CO2 emissions created by their holidays. The move marks Trees4Travel’s first luxury travel company partnership in the UK.

Each tailormade Luxtripper holiday will be individually calculated for its carbon cost and customers can choose to offset this cost by planting indigenous trees in carefully chosen sites across the world. The trees will offset the CO2 emissions within ten years and are then protected and cultivated so that they can continue offsetting for the rest of their lifetime, estimated to be at least 150 years.

With each tree costing £3 to plant - the price of a cup of coffee - and a week in the Maldives totaling approximately 20 trees, it would cost £60 to offset the entire trip. To further reinforce their commitment to climate protection, Luxtripper and Trees4Travel will cover half of the trees required to offset each holiday, meaning customers will only need to pay 50% of the cost.

Key facts:

• The maximum safe level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million (ppm), and in May 2021 global levels reached 419ppm.
• Despite a slight drop in emissions of 6.4% early last year, due to forced lockdowns, global emissions picked up again in the second half of 2020, bringing with it the warmest surface temperature on record.
• Tourism accounts for 8% of annual global CO2 emissions and deforestation accounts for 20%. By planting trees when we travel, we’ll not only be offsetting our own emissions, but also helping to repair one of the biggest CO2 emission sectors
• The latest Deloitte/Travel Weekly Travel Insights report showed that 60% of UK adults planning an overseas holiday in 2021 are concerned about sustainability, an increase of 5% from 2020. This figure rises to 70% of 16-34-year-olds.

Nena Chaletzos, founder and CEO of Luxtripper, commented: “This is a significant moment for us at Luxtripper. Protection and preservation of the world around us is one of our founding values and we are committed to making our presence in the travel industry a positive one for the planet.

“Our customers are increasingly environmentally-conscious, and this partnership allows them to be more in control of their own sustainability efforts, knowing we’ll match their donations. Despite a significant pause in movement over the last 16 months, our fight against climate change remains critical. With a continuing light shining on our industry, it’s our responsibility to ensure that we return to travel in the right way.”

Nico Nicholas, CEO and founder of Trees4Travel, commented: “We’re very excited to be partnering with Luxtripper, our first UK leisure company. Their vision for sustainable travel is aligned with ours and their growing customer base of eco-conscious travellers will make a significant impact on the planting projects we are running across the world.

“We began Trees4Travel in 2020 with a focus on the long term, we choose reforestation projects where we plant a variety of indigenous tree species to maximise biodiversity and restore natural ecosystems, and work closely with local communities to ensure that they too stand to benefit from this global initiative. Our vision is to use travel as a force for good, and to support the entire travel industry to be carbon positive, as well as working with destinations to do the same.”

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PR contacts:

Luxtripper – Katie Flynn (Head of Communications) – katie.flynn@luxtripper.co.uk /

Trees4Travel – Caroline Donaldson-Sinclair (Head of PR) - caroline@trees4travel.com / +44 (0)7917 251 599

About Luxtripper:

Luxtripper is an award-winning luxury travel company specialising in experiential, multi-destination and adventure travel across the world’s most exotic destinations. Set up in 2015 by CEO Nena Chaletzos, the business has created its own innovative technology that can match customers to destinations in seconds, and build bespoke itineraries tailored to their exacting requirements. With a team of 100 based across the UK and India, the social-focused business has since become one of the world’s most influential travel brands on Facebook and Instagram. www.luxtripper.co.uk

Trees4Travel - Editors notes:

Trees4Travel bases all calculations on the official guidelines laid down by DEFRA/IPCC and the GHG Protocol.

DEFRA – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK governmental ministry reporting on greenhouse gas emissions) / IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change) / GHG Protocol – Greenhouse Gas Protocol corporate accounting & reporting standard.

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