BCD Travel, the corporate travel management company, has released a new sustainability tool. The technology enables customers to set sustainability goals and carbon targets, apply carbon tax or allocate carbon emissions-based cost reduction at the point of sale, and generally report on emissions and progress.
BCD’s sustainability offering will be available and relevant to all clients. “BCD Travel prioritises sustainability. Yet, it has been challenging for our customers to make their travel programmes more sustainable,” said April Bridgeman (pictured), senior vice president at BCD Travel and managing director at Advito.
“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.”
BCD partnered with SQUAKE, a leading climate-tech company, to develop the tool. The technology provider has established software to provide active nudging and steering tools within BCD agent frontends and online booking tools (OBTs). The tool encourages travellers to travel less and travel better.
In addition to making users aware of air, train, hotel and ground transportation emissions, the tool displays the carbon cost of each trip. 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 now has solutions. The offering includes both point of sale and aggregated fee options.
“Our goal is to embed carbon emission-related action into the core processes,” said Philipp von Lamezan, CEO of SQUAKE. “SQUAKE is proud to partner with BCD Travel, a reputable company that shares our mindset to bring sustainability to the forefront and solve carbon emissions challenges.”
