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Protecting our Planet

For the Love of Travel

Like you, we love to travel. Done well, holidays allow us to explore, have fun and learn in ways we simply cannot if we stay at home. It is also a great way to meet new people and take a break from the stresses and strains of day-to-day life. But our planet is in crisis and we recognise things have to change if we are to protect the planet for future generations. The problem is how to do this without giving up the travel we love? Our solution is Leisuretime by Toureasy.

We are here to help you balance your love of travel with the increasingly urgent need to protect the sights and destinations that we all so enjoy visiting. We do that by ensuring all our holidays along with our entire back-office operation are 100% carbon neutral, giving you a certified Net Zero holiday every time.

We also believe that sustainability should come as standard and be accessible for all, which means you shouldn’t have to do anything different or pay extra for it. That is why we guarantee that our Net Zero holidays won’t cost you any more than travelling with any other operator.

Giving both you and the planet the break you deserve

Our Carbon Calculator

You’re making a difference on every trip

Travelling by coach on one off our day trips, short breaks or holidays is already one of the greenest ways to travel thanks to the efficiency of modern coaches. At Leisuretime by Toureasy we go even further by:

Measuring the carbon emissions from your entire holiday, not just the travel element. Checking those measurements through an external audit by an independent third party. Investing in projects across the world that remove the carbon we have emitted.

In addition to measuring and ‘balancing’ our carbon emissions in this way, we are continually working with our suppliers and other partners to reduce our carbon emissions and make your trip even more sustainable.

Our Climate Action Plan

We have developed a ‘Climate Action Plan’, which sets out in more detail our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade.

Please see our latest Action Plan. We will update on progress each year.

How do we do it?
The Leisuretime Carbon Cycle

Whilst we along with our suppliers and partners are investing both time and money in reducing carbon emissions we are not there yet - and neither is the technology needed to deliver Net Zero coach travel. But the planet is in crisis today and we have to act now to try and avoid making the situation even worse. We cannot wait.

Whilst carbon offsetting is certainly not the long-term solution to the climate emergency it is, in our opinion, the best and only way for us to deliver on our commitment to help you continue to enjoy fabulous holiday experiences today without further damaging the sights and destinations that we all love to visit for those that come after us.

To do this, we have invested in digital technology that allows us to calculate the carbon emissions associated with our holidays. We do not invest in unnecessary offices or other infrastructure that is not an essentialy part of our operations. We actively look to work with suppliers that share our commitment to sustainability and offer support to all our suppliers on their own journey to reduce emissions.

All of this means that our entire business is certified as Carbon Neutral by Carbon Footprint Ltd which undertakes annual audits to make sure that we have our calculations right and verify that we truly have removed the carbon associated with every aspect of our operations.

Carbon Footprint independently undertake audits to confirm Leisuretime carbon calculations
Sample Emissions Audit
Carbon Footprint Audit confirmation part 1 Carbon Footprint Audit confirmation part 2 Carbon Footprint Audit confirmation part 3 Carbon Footprint Audit confirmation part 4
Sustainability Projects

One of the best bits of our carbon neutral initiative is that we personally select the specific projects we wish to support through our offset programme.

Leisuretime by Toureasy invests in high quality, verified, carbon offset projects that are recognised by Carbon Footprint Ltd. They all meet the stringent requirements of the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting and also use one or more of the following credit systems to evidence their positive impact on the environment:

  • Certified Emission Reductions (CER) credits
  • Gold Standard CER credits
  • Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (VER) credits
  • Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) certified credits

Our Sustainability Projects deliver much more than just carbon reduction

Examples of some of the projects that we invest in:

UK Tree Planting

INVESTED: UK Tree Planting

This project provided us with an opportunity to plant trees in the UK.

For each tCO2e offset, one tree is planted in the UK.

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Amazon Rainforest project

INVESTED: Protecting the Amazon - Pacajai REDD+ Project, Brazil

We are helping to protect the Amazon Rainforest – the largest remaining rainforest in the world. The Amazon is known for its amazing biodiversity; containing 10% of all species. The rainforest is home to some endangered species that rely on it for their survival.



Our offsets are being used in the Amazon through the Brazilian Amazon Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) project. This is working to prevent unplanned deforestation in native forests, which has occurred due to logging, squatting and attempts to implement pastures. The project is expected to avoid over 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions over a 40-year period.

African Biomas Energy Conservation Project

INVESTED: African Biomass Energy Conservation Poa Malawi

This project aims to disseminate over 8,000 improved energy efficient cookstoves to homes in Malawi. The stoves are more efficient and use less wood for household cooking and heating than traditional stoves. They are locally made using local materials wherever possible, resulting in local income generation and the acquisition of new skills for local people.

Buenos Aires Renewable Energy Project

INVESTED: Buenos Aires Renewable Energy Project

Based in a region prone to poverty and severe drought, this initiative tackles one of the major causes of deforestation in Brazil: illegal logging.



This project alleviates deforestation, avoids greenhouse gas emissions and promotes a more sustainable supply chain: it does this whilst also improving the livelihoods of local communities and employees. Making good, better.

Veer Small Hydro Power Project India

INVESTED: Veer (NLBC) Small Hydro Power Project India

This is a small 4.8 MW hydro power project located at Village Veer, Taluka Purandar, and District Pune, Maharashtra, across the river Nira which is a tributary of Bhima River in the Krishna basin. The water stored by the irrigation project is let down into the two canals on both the flanks of river through separate canal irrigation outlets for irrigation as well as for drinking purposes.

The project is expected to supply around 11.06 million kWh of energy resulting in an average emission reduction of 10,832 tCO2e per year of operation.

Longyuan Mulilo De Aar 2 North Wind Energy Facility Project

INVESTED: Longyuan Mulilo De Aar 2 North Wind Energy Facility, South Africa

The purpose of this project is to supply the wind-generated electricity to the grid of the Republic of South Africa (RSA).The installed capacity of the wind farm is 144MW, and consists of 96 wind turbines and the associated infrastructure.


The total GHG emission reductions at the end of the crediting period are expected to be 4,339,290 tCO2e, annual average GHG emission reductions are 433,929 tCO2e/year.

Freedom Flight Prize investment

INVESTED: Freedom Flight Prize

In addition to these projects, we are also supporting Carbon Footprint’s Freedom Flight Prize

The Freedom Flight Prize will be awarded for the first zero carbon emission plane capable of carrying 100+ passengers across the Atlantic. The aim is to generate a multi-million pound prize fund to motivate and accelerate the development of truly sustainable aviation.


For information on past projects, please see our Sustainability Projects page.

We Declare a Climate Emergency
We Declare a Climate Emergency logo

The climate emergency doesn’t recognise borders and whilst coach holidays are the most sustainable way to travel, we recognise our responsibility to do so much more. That is why we have signed up to Tourism Declares, an initiative that supports tourism businesses, organisations and individuals across the world that are committed to taking action to combat climate change. By signing up to Tourism Declares, Leisuretime by Toureasy is not only lending its’ voice to others in declaring a climate emergency, but we are committed to taking purposeful action to reduce our carbon emissions over time and in line with the advice from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030.

Leisuretime's Climate Action Plan

We have developed a ‘Climate Action Plan’, which summarises our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade.

Point 2 of Leisuretime's Climate Action Plan

Our public declaration of our ‘Climate Action Plan’.

Point 3 of Leisuretime's Climate Action Plan

Accept current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the short breaks and holidays sold by us.

Point 4 of Leisuretime's Climate Action Plan

Encourage our suppliers and partners to make the same declaration; sharing best practice amongst peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community.

Point 5 of Leisuretime's Climate Action Plan

Advocate for change. We recognise the need for system change across the industry to accelerate a fair and realistic transition towards carbon-free tourism. Leisuretime by Toureasy aims to play a leading role in driving change across the coach tourism sector, in particular.


Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism

The Glasgow Declaration is a catalyst for increased urgency about the need to accelerate climate action in tourism and to secure strong commitments to support the global goals to halve emissions over the next decade and reach Net Zero emissions as soon as possible before 2050.

Over 450 organizations, including Toureasy, have become signatories of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism to accelerate climate action.

By becoming signatories, organisations agree to implement the commitments detailed in the Glasgow Declaration, notably:

  • - Support the global commitment to halve emissions by 2030 and reach Net Zero as soon as possible before 2050.
  • - Deliver climate action plans within 12 months from becoming a signatory (or updating existing plans), and implement them.
  • - Align plans with the five pathways of the Declaration (Measure, Decarbonise, Regenerate, Collaborate, Finance) to accelerate and co-ordinate climate action in tourism.
  • - Report publicly on an annual basis on progress against interim and long-term targets, as well as on actions being taken.
  • - Work in a collaborative spirit, sharing good practices and solutions, and disseminating information to encourage additional organizations to become signatories and supporting one another to reach targets as quickly as possible.

Everyone in the tourism sector has a role to play in accelerating climate action and therefore all tourism stakeholders (legal entities) can become signatories of the Glasgow Declaration. Toureasy is proud to have been one of the first!

The Most Sustainable Choice

Unless you can holiday exclusively on foot or by bike, there is no more sustainable way to get away than on a comfortable, modern coach because of the number of people they can carry and their increasingly clean and efficient engines.

The simple truth is that the more people choose to travel by coach, the better it is for our planet. It would only take a 15% increase in coach travel across the UK to reduce carbon emissions by over a quarter of a million tonnes*. Now that's a lot less carbon in the atmosphere.

Just one coach can keep up to 50 cars off the road

Just one coach can keep up to 50 cars off the road

So, the more people who choose to travel by coach on a short break or holiday rather than travel any other way, the happier our planet will be. And because Leisuretime by Toureasy is the only UK coach tour operator to fully offset its carbon emissions, it goes without saying that both we and the planet will be even happier if you choose to travel with us!

Whilst the coach industry continues to invest in research and technology that will ultimately deliver coaches powered by electricity or even hydrogen, these vehicles are not available to us today. The coaches we use for our tours are some of the cleanest available, but they still use diesel fuel because there is currently no alternative. That is why we deliver our carbon neutral commitment through high quality, responsible, carbon offsets.

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