BCD Travel has partnered with Squake, a climate-tech company, to launch a new, streamlined sustainability offering that allows corporate travel programmes to centrally set targets, decide upon sustainability policies to achieve them, and distribute these across online and offline booking channels for each employee.
This new offering, which is now being piloted with Siemens, is said to be relevant to all clients, regardless of their progress in sustainable business travel. It will be available to all other customers in 1Q2025.
Tools are available to encourage travellers to travel less and travel better, in addition to paying attention to air, train, hotel and ground transportation emissions. Using one of multiple calculation methodologies, the tool will show the carbon cost of each trip. This ensures a consistent representation of carbon emissions across point-of-sale, itineraries and invoices, and reporting.
For companies that have decided to allocate an actual carbon tax or require a traveller to invest in a carbon reduction project or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for each trip, BCD Travel now has automated solutions. The offering includes both point-of-sale and aggregated fee allocation options including SAF procurement or carbon compensation certificates.
In addition to driving traveller behaviour change, BCD Travel and Squake will provide carbon budgeting, forecasting, and reporting tools to help clients set and manage carbon targets. This is key to complying with regulatory reporting requirements like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Travel managers can also set the parameters for their policy as well as track and report on their progress.
BCD Travel’s consulting division, Advito, and its sustainability experts are on hand to help clients wanting sustainability strategy, change management support, and application of more sophisticated analytics tools.
April Bridgeman, senior vice president at BCD Travel and managing director at Advito, said: “BCD Travel prioritises sustainability. Yet, it has been challenging for our customers to make their travel programmes more sustainable. Until now, our clients have had to spend significant time and energy identifying, selecting, and deploying a range of sustainability providers that aren’t easy to integrate together or into their programmes.
Along with Squake and Advito, we decided to help by bringing what was once a fragmented set of features and suppliers together to simplify the process. And, we added some new features along the way.”
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