Egencia, the business travel arm of Expedia, has launched a set of new dashboards to allow clients to see the carbon emissions related to their air and hotel bookings.
The Carbon Emissions Workspace, available through the Egencia Analytics Studio, provides organisations with real-time data, reporting and insights that the TMC said helps them optimise their travel programme from a sustainability standpoint.
Travel managers can view trends, make comparisons and apply filters to perform company-wide analysis or measure the effects of a single trip or traveller.
The platform uses a proprietary algorithm developed by Egencia data scientists based on international industry standards for tracking carbon emissions, which were developed by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Egencia said customers can also use the data provided through the Carbon Emissions Workspace for tax and regulatory purposes.
In addition to the dashboards, the Egencia consulting team can work with clients to review their data and recommend ways to achieve their travel programme’s sustainability goals based on best practices and their experience of managing programmes for global customers.
Egencia plans to launch a dashboard for rail in early 2020.
Tristan Smith, VP of customer success, said: “Sustainability is important to companies that want to simultaneously grow their business while also reducing their impact on the environment. Business travel is a critical area to enable both of these company priorities. With our Carbon Emissons Workspace, Egencia is putting our clients in the driver’s seat – giving them on-demand, intuitive insights to identify and act on their carbon impact today and discover opportunities for further transformation.”
Harald Bjugstad-Holm, director of sustainability at Nordic Choice Hotels, commented: “There is no planet B. We have a great impact on our planet and the ones living on it. There’s a lot of attention on data and backing what you do with evidence, which is essential for driving sustainability work in the right direction. We have an obligation [to customers] to be more transparent about our environmental footprint and find more common measurements so they can make informed choices.”
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