Sustainability & Conservation in Travel

In the summer months, our sister brand, Unforgettable Croatia, sail small ship cruises along the Dalmatian Coast on a daily basis. As one of the largest small ship cruise companies in Croatia, we must set an example, thus have made a conscious effort to make all of our cruises as environmentally-friendly as possible. On board our private vessels, we have stopped offering plastic water bottles, straws and other items to our clients, implementing a no single-use plastic policy. Instead, we give our clients a luxury aluminium water bottle for them to keep, filling it up whenever they like using our filtered water machines on board.

We also implement a buy-local program where we source all of the food and wine on our vessels from local producers on each of the islands we visit. We are advocates of supporting small and family-run businesses, so a lot of the wine sourced will come from local vineyards that we have personally visited.

We also support local ship building in Croatia by part-funding the ship building costs. This in turn supports the local community by creating a number of job opportunities.

With so many flights taken across the world, we understand that travel is a major contributor to global carbon emissions. We ourselves, are conscience about the amount of staff travel we do, and although there are limited ways to cut down international flights, we are advocates of offsetting our flights to help minimise our carbon footprint.

With this in mind, we are proud to work with ClimateCare to pull our weight in minimising carbon footprints. For almost 20 years, ClimateCare have been the leading brand in neutralising CO2. Their results include cutting over 43 million tonnes of CO2, which is a huge amount of their target set for 2025. This target (for 4 years’ time) includes cutting 50 million tones of CO2, and improving 50 million lives.

Your carbon offsetting helps. Whether you are flying to Europe, Asia or Africa, your contribution to offsetting your international flights will help add to these impressive figures for ClimateCare. For those interested, please let your travel specialist from Unforgettable know, and your payment will be made direct to ClimateCare. Together, we can do what’s right.

Africa is a fragile ecosystem and our Africa team here at Unforgettable Travel are are extremely focused on protecting it as best they can. Our team work with camps and lodges which are environmentally-friendly. In fact, most of the camps across East and Southern Africa are ahead of the game when it comes to sustainability efforts in the global hospitality market.

The majority of camps in East Africa are run entirely by solar power, are plastic-free, and supply their own water from local bore holes. That said, we encourage clients to stay in camps that go the extra mile. These camps, such as Nomad properties, may run composting projects that teach better agricultural practices, beekeeping projects or even run village clean-up days to engage communities and keep the wilderness clean and free of plastic and litter.

Image credit: Nomad Africa

We work with Pack For Purpose which is an organisation making big impacts on local communities. The initiative supports over 525 education projects across the world in areas other than Africa – including Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Central and South America and South Asia. Wherever you are visiting, the Pack For Purpose initiative offers a range of local orphanages, charities, communities or schools who are in need of particular resources.

This may be school or office equipment such as pens, pencils, calculators or books. It may be generic medical equipment such as ice packs, toothbrushes, bandages or thermometers. They may be in need of linens including bedding, pillows and towels. The list goes on. This initiative allows you to pack purposefully, donating exactly what the orphanage or school needs.