2025 STRATEGY

We have a lot of work to do in the coming few years across a diversity of different areas, and we have identified a handful of headline goals to spearhead our three year sustainability strategy and focus our efforts on the biggest priorities.

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IMPROVE LIFE THROUGH TRAVEL, IN THE PLACES WE VISIT, FOR THE PEOPLE WE MEET, ON THE PLANET WE EXPLORE

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Start producing an integrated annual sustainability report (including Foundation activity)

Collaborate cross sector to improve tourism impact, and lead change within parent group

Develop and implement a proactive ED&I policy

Establish a Destination Community Council

Measurably increase employment and income generation opportunities through tourism for disadvantaged, underrepresented and hard-to-reach communities BECOME NATURE NET POSITIVE BY 2024 Including our biodiversity regeneration, carbon reduction and waste reduction goals

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SEE OUR NATURE NET POSITIVE PLAN

Triple donor income to the Foundation

Late last year, we became the first Tour Operator to make a Nature Net Positive commitment, the lead goal in our Sustainability Strategy 2025.

In 2020, we were one of the first travel companies to declare a climate emergency, and at the beginning of 2021, we published our first climate action plan – spearheaded by our commitment to halve our carbon footprint by 2030, to compensate for all trip and flight emissions, and to rewild 100 square metres per passenger (through our partnership with Rewilding Europe – see page 19). However, our increasing awareness of the biodiversity crisis we face – inextricably linked to the climate emergency – fuelled a desire to go further in our efforts to support the regeneration of nature. Our customers agree, identifying the protection of biodiversity and wildlife as the number one sustainable travel issue they feel we should address, in both our 2019 and 2021 customer surveys. On the right hand page, are the targets we have set ourselves in order to further reduce our negative impact on nature and – importantly – support the regeneration of biodiversity, through our adventures and our Foundation.

OUR NATURE NET POSITIVE PLAN

TOURISM’S NEGATIVE IMPACT ON NATURE:

Carbon emissions (IPBES driver: Climate change)

Pollution and waste (IPBES driver: Pollution)

Ecosystem exploitation (IPBES drivers: Over-exploitation of natural resources, change in land use, invasive and non-native species and disease)

2021 2022 2023

Identify nature impacts and define targets and KPIs.

Make the Council for Sustainable Business Nature Positive Pledge.

Continue to collaborate across the sector to advance and advocate for climate solutions.

Sign up to Global Tourism Plastics Initiative to engage in cross-sector change.

Rewild 400 hectares through rewilding partnership.

Support the restoration of endangered species and engage communities on more restorative land use (through Exodus Travels Foundation).

Start engaging customers re. importance of nature regeneration with our rewilding documentary. Collaborate across the sector to advance industry’s nature regeneration strategy and activity.

Verification of carbon reduction targets by SBTi.

Rewild 100 square metres per passenger and expand support for rewilding.

Engage with suppliers and tour leaders re. importance of nature conservation and regeneration.

Activate customers in contributing towards conservation and regeneration through Nature Metrics partnership.

Increase equity of benefit that comes from nature in destinations (through Exodus Travels Foundation).

Alignment of our targets with global, cross-sector benchmarks, e.g. Science Based Targets for Nature.

Rewild 100 square metres per passenger and expand support for rewilding.

Increase and diversify the way in which our itineraries support local conservation efforts.

Engage with accommodation suppliers re. how they can support nature regeneration.

Continue to increase support of nature conservation and restoration activity through destination community engagement (through Exodus Travels Foundation).

Measure carbon footprint and establish carbon reduction roadmap (for goal to halve footprint by 2030).

Compensate for all trip and flight carbon emissions.

Engage destination communities in waste reduction (through Exodus Travels Foundation).

Support reduction of human/ wildlife conflict in destinations (through Exodus Travels Foundation).

Continue avoiding: • Highly emitting trip types, e.g. big cruise, big tour groups. • Accommodation with big environmental footprint. • Damaging wildlife interactions or animal practices. Implement carbon reduction plan (halve footprint by 2030).

Compensate for all trip and flight carbon emissions.

Engage with customers on reducing waste on trips.

Engage with customers on minimising nature damaging practices on trips.

Engage with suppliers on how they protect against over-exploitation of natural environments.

Eliminate distribution of any single-use plastics to customers on trips (direct operations).

Achieve zero waste to landfill across offices.

Animal welfare audit undertaken across all trips. Continue carbon reduction plan (halve footprint by 2030).

Compensate for all trip and flight carbon emissions.

Increase plant-based meals and engage with local suppliers to do the same.

Reduce food waste in directly provided meals.

Engage with accommodation suppliers re. pollution and waste reduction.

Reduce nights in over-exploited destinations.

Engage with accommodation and other suppliers on how to avoid ecosystem exploitation.

RESTORE, REGENERATE, TRANSFORM

REDUCE & MITIGATE

AVOID

REFERENCES:

IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services): Drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem change UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Proposed headline indicators global biodiversity framework Council for Sustainable Business’s Nature Handbook Science Based Targets for Nature: Initial Guidance for Business Responsible Travel: 10 year plan for just, nature positive and lower carbon holidays

KEY: General/ strategic target | Target addressing impact of carbon emissions | Target addressing impact of pollution and waste | Taget addressing impact of ecosystem exploitation

You can read more about why and how we developed this plan, as well as the different activities within it, at: