Travel Facts
Flights
Each year, 4.3 billion people take a flight.
The estimated CO2 emissions from these
flights is 880 billion kgs. (Pre Covid-19)
As an industry, tourism accounts for 8% of annual global CO2 emissions, most of which is attributed to transport.
If everyone plants a tree each time they board a plane, air
travel would be CO2 negative within 16 years!
Accommodation
A hotel stay produces 5 times more CO2 than a typical home.
Hotels facilities like swimming pools, gyms, spas, restaurants, bars, air conditioning, heating, laundry service, consume vast amounts of energy & therefore produce great amounts of CO2.
A hotel room produces approximately 30kg of CO2 per night, this varies according to location & function.
Therefore, 1 tree would help offset a 5 night stay.
Cruises
In 2019 there were 30 million passengers on cruise ships, up 6% from the previous year.
Source/https://www.cruising.org
In 2019, all cruises together produced 23 billion kgs of CO2.
A passenger produces approximately 820 kgs of CO2 per cruise, therefore we estimate and recommend to plant 5 trees per cruise passenger.
Motor Vehicules
Trains
Travelling 1,000 miles by train produces 41 kgs per passenger
Rail transport is the most environment-friendly way to travel. The only methods more environmentally friendly than trains are walking and cycling.
A typical train line can carry 50,000 people per hour. Compare this with a motorway, which can move only 2,500 people per hour.
Motor Vehicles
Passenger cars and light-duty trucks, including sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans account for over half of the emissions from the transportation sector.
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If you travel 1,000 miles or 1,600 kilometres by car alone, you would emit 275 kgs of CO2 whereas 4 people making the same trip, in the same car would emit only 69 kilos each.
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source: IPCC - the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change