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Green initiative for explorer’s polar travel firm
Polar explorer Pen Hadow’s travel business has been revamped with all bookings to be handled by ABTA member and ATOL-bonded operator Voyage Concepts.
People booking with Pen Hadow Travel will be referred to Voyage Concepts, chosen as being most in line with Hadow’s “ethos of personability, professionalism and responsibility”.
All carbon emissions produced by clients’ flight itineraries to the poles and back will be offset with the planting of a “precisely calculated” number of trees.
Beside the emission offsetting, clients will receive 20 low energy light bulbs. Hadow has also launched an award scheme with a prize of £1,000 for the most workable idea for reducing aviation emissions.
Hadow said: “I have downsized my business so that it is now simply a referral service for those already determined to visit the Poles.
“I’m hoping that my small initiative will act as a stimulant to larger travel organisations to think hard about the environmental impact their business is creating, and start building in the environmental costs to their pricing.
“I am all too aware that the increasing use of aeroplanes comprises one of the worst pollutants of all. But it is unrealistic to expect people to cease flying altogether, so we must tackle the problem from another angle.”
Report by Phil Davies
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