Enjoy the journey

We’re with you! Train travel, walking, wheeling or biking your holiday gives you time to take in the true joy of travel - to stop and see the world with fresh eyes. There’s so much adventure to be had on our doorstep. Staring in wonder at the peaks of Switzerland as the train chugs its way up a mountain. Pondering the beauty of glowing sunflowers in Italy as you roll by.

Did you know, lots of businesses give their employees additional paid days off work to take the longer journey instead of travelling by plane? 

  • Lucy wants to travel from London to Berlin without flying.

    • Lucy calculates how long the journey takes (in this example, nine hours by train).

    • It would have taken two hours to fly - so it takes seven hours longer to get there without flying.

    • Lucy decides to take the train, reducing her emissions from the journey by 92 percent!

    • Lucy works for a company that offers Sustainable Travel Leave. This means she is granted an additional seven hours of paid time off work to cover the extra time required for her carbon-saving journey.

Overland travel is slow (that’s the joy of it!). And when you’ve got limited time off work, it’s understandable that many people choose to fly to their holiday destinations instead - but not only does flying send their carbon emissions through the roof, but it also means they miss out on the joy of the journey!

That’s why we set up Sustainable Travel Leave - the innovative workplace policy that gives staff extra paid time off work if they choose to travel by land or sea instead of flying.

It’s working. Hundreds of employers have adopted Sustainable Travel Leave - from architects to accountants, legal firms to NGOs, publicly traded companies and everything in between.

Want your workplace to join the companies offering Sustainable Travel Leave?

We’d be delighted to help! We have tonnes of helpful resources and guidance for employers, including policy templates, employee procedure docs and roll-out materials. Simply click the button below to let us know you’re interested and we’ll be in touch to help you take this forward.

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