sustainable development
Thalys: celebrations to welcome the return to more...
175 years of the Paris-Brussels route, 25 candles for the Thalys company, but also - and this is much more topical for business travellers - an increase in frequencies after a year and a half of sluggish activity: June is a month of celebrations for the Franco-Belgian carrier, a subsidiary of...
Carbon offsetting: further progress for hoteliers
World Environment Day 2021, on 5 June, gave hoteliers the opportunity to demonstrate their ambitions in terms of sustainable development. While Hilton announced last week that it would be rolling out its carbon-neutral meetings in Europe by offsetting their footprint, IHG took advantage of the event to...
Hilton: carbon-neutral meetings, notably in La...
As part of its "Travel with Purpose 2030" environmental and social strategy, the Hilton Group is offering companies and organisers the chance to reduce the carbon footprint of their business meetings involving 10 or more participants. To achieve this, the American group has entered into a partnership with the carbon finance consultancy South Pole, which is committed to...
American Express GBT gets involved in the development of sustainable fuel
Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF for short. This subject is very topical, with Air France's first long-haul flight between Paris and Montreal using 16 % of sustainable fuel alongside conventional paraffin. This avoided 20 tonnes of CO2 emissions. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="109857"] While...
Congresses and meetings in Madrid: for a truly sustainable recovery
It's sure to be the next guest of honour at corporate meetings and major conferences. Sustainable development is taking pride of place in the MICE sector, and will undoubtedly play a key role in its recovery after the long wait caused by the pandemic. Companies are becoming more and more involved in...
InterCity Hotels on track in Budapest and soon in the Netherlands
It would be hard to find a hotel brand better suited to business travel than InterCity Hotels. In its development, it focuses on hotels that are always within walking distance of the city's train station or airport. This is a logical direction for this mid-range 'plus' brand, which was launched in 1987 by Deutsche Bahn in...
Is hydrogen the miracle solution for sustainable transport?
"Hydrogen-powered aircraft are a tremendous opportunity for the French and European economies": in an article published in the Journal du Dimanche on 11 April, Guillaume Faury, Augustin de Romanet and Ben Smith - Chairman of Airbus and ADP respectively, and Chief Executive Officer of Air France - sang the praises of a technology that is on the verge of...
Hilton: carbon-neutral meetings and events in the Netherlands
Sustainable development will undoubtedly be one of the key factors in the upturn in business travel. In the Netherlands, Hilton is offering companies the chance to offset the environmental impact of their meetings and events involving 10 or more participants. The offer is free of charge, thanks to a partnership with the South Pole group, one of the world's leading...
Best Western: development and coworking to offset poor results
The fall was inevitable and will come as no surprise to anyone. In 2020, the Best Western network in France recorded an unprecedented drop in sales of -52.4 %, following a record performance in 2019. The causes are well known: a pandemic which, through confinements and border closures, triggered a series of...
Trainline: a quantified argument in favour of rail travel over flights...
The study published by Trainline on 19 April comes at a relatively sensitive time. For several years now, air travel has been criticised for its impact on the environment, and the trend has accelerated with the phenomenon of "flygskam", or the "shame of flying". Now, with the economic crisis, government subsidies to airlines...
Study: is air travel for the privileged?
Possible is a UK-based charity working towards a low-carbon British society. Its "A Free Ride" campaign seeks to limit the use of environmentally damaging forms of transport. Air transport is naturally one of them. But the campaign also includes - less frequently - the idea of justice...
Green Stay label: interview with Emmanuel Ebray (HRS)
HRS recently announced the launch of a sustainable hotel booking initiative. Does the subject of CSR seem more topical than ever within companies? Emmanuel Ebray - Indeed. Whether it's with a customer or a prospect, with a company or an institution, I never have a single exchange...
Electric scooters and scooters: FreeNow steps up the pace of sustainable micro-mobility
In line with its environmental strategy, aimed at achieving its "Net-Zero Carbon" objective by 2030, FreeNow is preparing to take a new step forward. The multimodal platform has just unveiled a new partnership with Tier. The micro-mobility operator's electric scooters and scooters will be added to the FreeNow solution. As a result, business travellers will be able to...
OUI.sncf launches its new mobility comparator
The SNCF announced the launch of this new service back in January, when it presented its Planete Voyages eco-mobility project. Now it's done: its mobility comparator has been online since 4 March on the home page of the OUI.sncf website. Journey times by train, but also by coach, car,...
Accor and Expedia join forces with UNESCO to promote sustainable tourism
Expedia and Accor are joining forces to expand the UNESCO Commitment to Sustainable Tourism. This initiative, launched by the UN agency in October 2019 with the Thai Ministry of Tourism and, already, Expedia as partners, has so far brought together just over 500 hotels in Thailand. These include the Anantara resorts, the...
HRS: sustainable hotel reservations with its Green Stay initiative
Organising business travel in a more eco-responsible way. This ambition is based on the desire, now widely shared at global level, by governments, companies and individuals alike, to make sustainable development the major issue of the years to come. But this desire to reduce emissions and, ultimately, to become carbon neutral...
"For greener mobility": Auriane Nirascou, FREENOW...
What are FREENOW's new environmental commitments? Auriane Nirascou - FREENOW is one of the leaders in mobility in Europe and VTC in France, and we are present in 10 countries and 100 cities on the European market. Given our influence, it is therefore our duty to...
Châteauform': new solutions for maintaining long-distance links
This was supposed to be a recovery event for Châteauform' after the relaxation of health constraints scheduled for 20 January. Unfortunately, the spread of the pandemic continues unabated, and business at the seminar centres is still at a standstill. Despite its position as France's leading seminar and training venue, Châteauform'...
SNCF greenlights its offering and services with Planète Voyages
Voyages SNCF intends to play an active part in reducing the rail group's emissions by 50 % by 2030, the target set by SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou. To this end, it is launching Planète Voyages, an ecological mobility project based first and foremost on raising awareness and training staff and on-board personnel...
Uber raises prices to go green
Uber is starting 2021 by putting its good resolutions into practice straight away. To achieve the sustainable objectives unveiled a few months earlier - namely 50% electric vehicles by 2025 and the elimination of diesel vehicles from 2024 on the French market - new measures are coming into force. These measures are based on two principles...
