Our Sustainable Travel Journey

We welcome the opportunity to share our 2022 impact report with all of our stakeholders. This report, based on our actions and performance, shows where Exodus and the Exodus Travels Foundation have made progress against our goals, and areas where we struggled to have the impact we intended.

2022 was a whirlwind year. We were relieved to see the easing of disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the devastating war in Ukraine, the increasing effects of climate change and the rising cost of living have required continued agility in our operations and sensitivity to our responsibility to the people and places where we travel.

The tremendous commitment and support of our suppliers are what allowed us to return to travel in 2022. These partners are instrumental in helping us to ensure that our adventures do their utmost to inspire transformational experiences for our customers and to help local communities and nature thrive in the places we visit.

Businesses like ours must address carbon and biodiversity decline so that these amazing places are around for future generations. Through our Nature First commitment, we have the ambition to remove and reduce the negative impacts we create and outweigh them with our efforts to restore nature. Our suppliers and partners help us to facilitate biodiversity protection and restoration, create diverse and local experiences for our customers to engage with and they find local initiatives on the ground that would benefit from our important Community Kick Start grants, channelled through the Exodus Travels Foundation. These pages provide a number of examples of how we are attempting to do this.

Our wonderful community of clients is incredibly generous in support of our Foundation projects and helps us realise its aims of improving life through travel in hard-to-reach places. The Trustees of our Exodus Travels Foundation have also provided excellent governance of the funding for projects to support community empowerment conservation and disaster relief, and I thank them enormously for their engagement.

Finally, the Exodus Travels team was transformed over 2022 with the hiring of 88 new starters - an increase of 50% compared to the previous year. These fantastic new recruits say that they were attracted to Exodus as we are a business that acts with purpose. Our people are instrumental to achieving success over the years ahead and living up to our staff expectations is a responsibility that we look forward to meeting.

SAM SEWARD Managing Director

This impact report covers progress against our sustainability goals set out in our sustainability strategy. Our progress covers the period of January to December 2022.