Mid-2025 Climate Action Report

Our Commitment to the Glasgow Declaration

As proud signatories of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, Ethical Travel Portal is committed to transforming the way travel impacts the planet and communities. This is our mid-2025 progress report, reflecting the actions we are taking to align with the Declaration’s five pathways: Measure, Decarbonise, Regenerate, Collaborate, and Finance (Giving Back).

Through initiatives like STOMP.travel, Resonate.travel, and our charitable arm GreenBox, we are working towards transparent, low-impact, and community-driven travel.

This report shares how we are putting our commitments into practice—tracking our impact, reducing emissions, supporting local communities, and inspiring change in the travel industry.

Our Actions Aligned with the Glasgow Declaration

1. Measure

Understanding our impact is the first step.

STOMP.travel, a tool we initiated and financed, helps measure both social and environmental impacts of travel.

It works by offering radical financial transparency, clearly showing travellers where their money goes—whether it stays within local communities or flows out to external suppliers. This separation helps travellers make informed choices.

It also helps us—and our partners—focus on working with small, local businesses that are more sustainable, ensuring our operations align with our values.

Learn more about STOMP →

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2. Decarbonise

We reduce emissions through how we operate:

• Promoting decentralised, community-based tourism, including incoming travel to Norway through our website EthicalNorway.com, and to places less visited globally.
• Encouraging travellers to stay longer, use local transport, electric vehicles, and explore regional markets, often arriving by land for lower-carbon journeys.
• Supporting small businesses that naturally operate with lower footprints but often lack the visibility to communicate this.
• Internally, we are improving how we operate by using STOMP to track impact and by developing a carbon calculator to better understand and manage emissions from our trips.

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3. Regenerate

We believe travel can be a force for good.

Our platform Resonate.travel amplifies local voices and stories, inspiring meaningful connections between travellers and destinations.

With a dedicated section on responsible travel, we focus on storytelling that celebrates culture, nature, and community pride, helping regenerate local identities.

Explore examples of how storytelling drives mindful travel:

• A Transition Trip for Adventure Travellers
• How Our Food Choices Can Nourish Sustainable Destinations
• Can We Ever Travel Without Plastic?
• Protecting the Planet on Earth Day

Discover more stories →

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4. Collaborate

We are stronger together.

• STOMP is built as an open tool to support the entire responsible tourism community. As it matures, we are preparing to make it available for others—enabling more businesses to operate transparently and responsibly.
• Resonate connects voices from over 61 countries and growing, creating a global platform for shared stories and local perspectives.
• We work with grassroots organisations, local enterprises, and community leaders in Norway, Nepal, The Gambia, and beyond—believing that real change happens when we collaborate.

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5. Giving Back

We believe in sharing the benefits of tourism.

10% of our profits are pledged to GreenBox, our charitable fund that supports community-driven projects in Norway, The Gambia, and Nepal.

An example from 2023: our team at Ethical Norway chose to donate 25% of the year’s fund (5980 NOK) to Hold Norge Rent / Keep Norway Clean, an organisation working to keep Norway litter-free through clean-up efforts across the country.

Through GreenBox, we ensure that travel doesn’t just minimise harm—but also delivers positive social and environmental impacts directly to the communities we work with.

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Our Vision for the Future of Travel

At Ethical Travel Portal, we believe that responsible travel starts with inspiration—and ends with accountability.

This is how we drive change:

• Inspire conscious travellers through Resonate.travel.
• Measure and communicate impact transparently with STOMP.travel.
• Give back to communities through GreenBox.

Through our operational arm EthicalNorway.com, we put this into practice—running trips that prioritise low-carbon travel, local benefit, and meaningful connections.