The report reveals where corporate travel programs stand in terms of emissions tracking, business travel sustainability measures, cost-benefit approaches, and sustainable travel sourcing. It also outlines current and future thinking on corporate meeting programs including virtual and hybrid meetings, operational changes, and venue sourcing.
Here are some highlights:
- 55% of respondents say their organization has a company-wide carbon emissions reduction target. However, 23% have a target for business travel specifically. Even fewer (9%) have a target for company-hosted meetings and events.
- 73% say sustainability is at least a moderate priority for their company’s travel program. 65% say sustainability is at least a moderate priority for their company’s meetings management program.
- 64% of Europe-based respondents say sustainability is a top priority for their company’s corporate travel program, compared to only 33% of North America-based respondents.
- 57% say senior executives/C-suite leaders are top stakeholders who drive sustainability/carbon reduction at their company.
- 59% expect sustainability considerations will drive their company to hold more virtual meetings and 52% say it will drive more hybrid meetings in the future.
- When it comes to sustainable event practices, most cited by respondents are providing shuttles from the venue to hotels or other off-site events (40%), communicating with attendees about public transit (34%), serving locally sourced food (32%), using recyclable packaging (31%), and replacing plastic cutlery with real flatware (30%).
- 54% include sustainability-related questions most or all of the time in their hotel RFPs. 44% include sustainability-related questions most or all of the time in their events and meetings RFPs.
Tune in tomorrow from 11:00 AM -12:00 PM ET for a deeper discussion of the research during a free GBTA-Cvent webinar - to register, visit here. GBTA members can access the full report on the GBTA Hub.
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