Sustainable Travel - Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

Offsetting our Carbon Footprint

Go Beyond Holidays has been taking action to tackle the carbon footprint that we are responsible for each year. In early 2024, we met up with Lea Jacquot-Benson from Positively Touristing, who helps organisations within the tourist industry to calculate and offset their carbon emissions. We have been working with Lea who has set down some guidelines for us to follow. Lea’s plan has enabled us to calculate our carbon footprint for 2025 and 2026, as well as a plan on how much money we need to raise to donate to projects that are involved with Carbon Offsetting.

Local Fruit Tree Project

As recommended by Positively Touristing, we have chosen a local partner, close to where Go Beyond directors, Anna and Ian live, in France. We are working with the Parc Natural Régional du Verdon who have an existing project in place which preserves old varieties of fruits typical of the Verdon region (apples, pears, plums and figs), that make up an important part of the local heritage and biodiversity. The money donated by Go Beyond will help the park to propagate and distribute these traditional varieties by offering trees to local residents of the Verdon region who can plant them in their gardens and help to preserve them This way, we will be able to visit and see for ourselves the progress that is made and, eventually, we hope to become involved with helping to plant fruit trees. In 2025 we raised a total of €3400.

How will we raise the funds?

The money you pay for your holiday will include a small amount that we will donate to the Parc Natural Régional de Verdon. Go Beyond will also contribute 50% towards monies raised by funds generated from guests. The money collected in 2027 from the holidays you book, will be used to plant trees in the spring of 2028. I hope you agree with us, that this is a small price to pay for our carbon emissions that are harmful to the environment that act as an accelerator to climate change.

Together we can do our part.