TravelPerk has launched a new platform to give travel managers the tools to measure their organisation’s carbon footprint and create strategies to reduce emissions.
The Europe-based TMC has launched GreenPerk API, which will provide travel management platforms with data and analytics about an organisation’s carbon footprint across different types of travel services, including flights, rail, accommodation and car rental.
TravelPerk said GreenPerk API will offer the industry’s “most comprehensive inventory” of carbon footprint data for national and international rail routes, allowing the emissions created by these train trips to be compared directly with flights between the same destinations.
Avi Meir, CEO and co-founder of TravelPerk, called the launch of GreenPerk API “an exciting milestone” for the TMC.
“We recognise the challenge in developing a sustainability strategy and as a business, we wanted to put our focus into providing a solution that is open, flexible and easy to integrate,” he explained.
“GreenPerk API will enable companies to think holistically about sustainability, meaning not just reducing travel emissions but feeding this information into a wider approach that looks at tackling the environmental impact of collaborating in a hybrid working environment where business travel is a key component.”
The initiative builds on TravelPerk’s existing GreenPerk platform, which allows business travellers to report and offset the carbon impact from their trips.
GreenPerk API can be integrated by corporates and travel management platforms to provide data, analytical insights and access to offsetting options.
James Dent, head of ESG (environmental, social and governance) and sustainability at TravelPerk, added: “We’ve launched GreenPerk API because our customers and partners want to understand how they can better measure and reduce their travel-related carbon footprint.
“Business travel is an important part of that picture and we’re excited that our product and data will help businesses make the right decisions.”