Travel and Climate

Published on December 12, 2022

Travel and Climate is an open source methodology developed to support tool used by Swedish DMO Goteborg & Co. It can be used for scopes 1, 2 and 3.Specific scopes depends upon ownership of assets by user when measuring CO2 emissions.

Goteborg & Co is a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration and leading destination, who has built and is developing the Travel and Climate project in collaboration with academic and industry stakeholders in Sweden and internationally.

Tool is extremely easy to use, while API offers users potential to integrate emissions into travel agency apps & booking sites, create carbon receipts for travel related purchases etc. It is a rapidly evolving product originally designed for consumers to measure transport, but now with additional accommodation (and developing attractions) functionality, enabling users to compare different types of accommodation and different types of transport. API is available at cost to embed functionality into own site.

Travel and Climate is an open source methodology developed to support tool used by Swedish DMO Goteborg & Co. This resource has been reviewed as part of Climate Action in the Tourism Sector: An overview of methodologies and tools to measure greenhouse gas emissions within the framework of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism.