This benchmarking study provides insights from the global business travel sector and others to reveal their top sustainability priorities. 

Key takeaways include: 

• 89% say that sustainability is already a priority for their company.  

• 76% of travel buyers say that they have  incorporated or are planning to incorporate sustainability objectives in their travel policies. 
• 80% of the global business travel industry report having a sustainability team and/or a sustainability program in place.  
• 88% of the global business travel sector views addressing climate change as the number one priority area for action. 
• Among the biggest barriers to more sustainable business travel management practices are higher costs (82%) and lack of transparent information and data (63%).

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The Wren Urban Nest  is a 137 room hotel in Dublin city, the property as whole uses 100% renewable energy and is the first hotel in Ireland to comply with the World Green Building Council’s definition of ‘Net Zero Operational Carbon’. 

There ethos is  that hotels of the future have a responsibility to the host city to minimise the environmental and social impacts of their guests. 

This one of the first-of-its-kind hotel in Europe. The building burns no fossil fuels, has zero local pollution and even improves the air quality around it.”

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