Alongside itineraries and pricing, Brighton-based travel operator Pura Aventura recently started adding another piece of crucial information to its trip descriptions: the total amount of carbon that's generated per person.
For a seven-night trip to southern Portugal, for example, that's 580 kg of carbon emissions. The company also mitigates that footprint: "For every kilometre traveled by road, air and sea on your Pura Aventura holiday, we carbon balance it by a mile — i.e. by 160% of your trip's carbon, from your front door and back again, irrespective of whether we book your international travel or not."
Pura Aventura is one of the few travel operators providing carbon labels. Another is Much Better Adventures, which began including carbon footprint details earlier this year and is sharing their methodology to encourage others in the travel industry to do the same.
