Announcements

Executive Worldwide Travel is now offering clients an opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of their travel by going "carbon neutral" through an Offsetting Policy in co-operation with Cleaner Climate.

What is "carbon neutral?"

Climate change is a serious problem, caused primarily by the carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas. But there are things we can do about it - like choosing to go carbon neutral.

Going carbon neutral is an easy way to take responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions we create every time we drive our cars, take a plane, or turn on our computers. It's based on the principle that, since climate change is a global problem, an emission reduction made elsewhere has the same positive effect as one made locally.

Here's how it works: if you add polluting emissions to the atmosphere, you can effectively subtract them by purchasing 'carbon offsets.' Carbon offsets are simply credits for emission reductions achieved by projects elsewhere, such as wind farms, solar installations, or energy efficiency projects. By purchasing these credits, you can apply them to your own emissions and reduce your net climate impact.

Why Go Carbon Neutral?

To solve the problem of climate change, we all need to take account of our personal carbon emissions and make continued efforts to reduce them wherever possible. We know it is impossible to reduce our carbon emissions to zero, no matter how hard we try. Going carbon neutral by purchasing carbon offsets is a practical and affordable way to do something about those remaining emissions.

Purchasing high quality carbon offsets from projects such as wind farms also helps support the transition to a sustainable energy economy by providing an additional source of revenue to developers of renewable energy.

Information from the David Suzuki Foundation website.
www.davidsuzuki.org

Executive Worldwide Travel's Carbon Emission Offsetting Program

Executive Worldwide travel has partnered with Cleaner Climate Ltd. (www.cleanerclimate.com), to provide a link to a "carbon calculator." This will allow you to determine the carbon emitted from your flight and voluntarily fund a renewable energy project in a developing country to offset it.

The company's projects are structured in accordance with guidelines set out by bodies such as the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Gold Standard and are monitored by a third party to verify that they offset the amount specified.

The Offset Project

Cleaner Climate's projects are based in South Africa and to be accredited as a 'Gold Standard' project they must meet certain guidelines and provide certain criteria including environmental, social and economic impact. In Durban, they have partnered with Phillips, one of the world's leading electronic companies, to supply and install 6 million energy-efficient light bulbs in poor communities with little to no infrastructure. Each light bulb over its 7 year life displaces ½ tonne of CO2. This means over a 7 year period over 3 million tonnes of CO2 will have been displaced. This is the equivalent of making 215,000 cars carbon neutral each year for 7 years.

Besides the environmental factor they are also saving the community money they would have spent on electricity, addressing the economic factor. Phillips will also train local unemployed people from the community, ensure installation and monitor the progress over the life of the projects.

Cleaner Climate also has a number of projects it is currently working on at prefeasibility stage. These projects include landfill remediation, solar thermal, solar pv (micro & macro) and coal mine methane extraction.

We are very excited to announce the integration of the advanced web-based iBank travel data consolidation and reporting system into our basic accounting structure.

This state-of-the-art system, the most sophisticated yet user-friendly reporting tool in the travel industry, means Executive Worldwide Travel clients will now have access to travel management reports that will give them the ability to proactively monitor and control travel costs through report generation. iBank is password protected to ensure security, confidentiality and data integrity.

Through iBank, our clients have access to several reporting components including Spend Management, Spend Analysis, Activity Management, Policy and Risk Management and Reconciliation Analysis. These reports will help clients to efficiently monitor and manage many day-to-day activities and facilitate adherence to travel policies by providing detailed views of reservation and accounting information.

Spend Analysis reports, for example, include Year to Year Comparison, Totals by month, Domestic/International comparisons, and filters to display spend by division, accounts or individual travellers. Policy and Risk Management reports include monitoring for reservations made outside of policy, reviewing reasons and exceptions for non compliance, monitoring the number of travellers on the same plane by defined criteria such as department or cost center, and reviewing pending travel arrangements prior to travel.

To help reconcile credit card statements and reduce administrative costs, iBank gives a detailed view of air, car, hotel and transaction fees.

More than 120 pre-defined reports can be produced through this system, including:

• Executive Summary Year to Year
• Executive Summary with Graphs
• Negotiated Savings
• Published Savings
• Quick Summary in Air, Car, Hotel
• Quick Summary by month
• Service Fees Summary
• Top /Bottom travellers in Air, Car, Hotel

• Transaction Analysis by Credit Card
• Trip Detail report
• Itinerary Detail Combined

Anna Spina

Executive Worldwide Travel is pleased to welcome Anna Spina back as our new
General Manager.

Anna returns to us from Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Ottawa Global Sales Office, and brings with her over 10 years industry experience.

In her new capacity, Anna will oversee the day-to-day office operation and will work closely with the staff to ensure that we continue to provide superior customer service to our valued clients.

Anna can be reached at our office
located at 202-60 Queen St. Ottawa.

Telephone number 613-236-6177 or
e-mail: aspina@executive-trvl.com