With or without air transport, all trips sold by the tour operator will now be compensated.
As of May 1 , 2022, Point-Voyages, the parent company of Point-Afrique, introduces “carbon offsetting for all [its] stays”, and makes it “compulsory for each registration for one of [its] trips” , explains a press release.
Concretely, the tour operator will collect 5 euros for a stay without air, and 15 euros for a stay with flight, from its customers. “After long reflections and an in-depth study on the responses likely to be brought to the carbon footprint left by our stays – and in particular those using air transport -, we have favored absorption rather than carbon mitigation. », Details Point-Voyages.
A trip compensated up to four times
The tour operator has therefore chosen to plant trees and will entrust the sums collected to the NGO specializing in reforestation Graine de Vie, which operates mainly in Africa. Point-Voyages will add one euro to all these sums collected.
This new initiative is materialized by the “CO² Solidaire” pictogram, now affixed to all the tour operator’s product sheets. Sheets on which the detail between the carbon emissions due to aerial activity or terrestrial activity are specified. By way of comparison, in 2019, Point-Voyages calculated that the average carbon emission of its air travel was 2.07 tonnes per person and per stay, compared to 0.3 tonnes per person and per stay without air.
According to its own calculations, with this new mandatory device, Point-Voyages estimates that each traveler will now compensate “up to 4 times their trip […] whether for a stay with or without air travel”.
