Travel light: Tips for more sustainable travel

Spending your holidays close to home is a great way to travel in a meaningful way while reducing your environmental impact. By exploring nearby destinations, you minimize the carbon emissions associated with long-haul flights and extended trips. Staying local allows you to discover hidden gems, support regional businesses, and immerse yourself in the culture and nature of your own region. It's an opportunity to reconnect with your surroundings and create memorable experiences.

Extending your vacation is a simple yet effective way to make your travels more responsible. Longer stays allow you to immerse yourself in the local culture, reduce the frequency of long-haul flights, and lower your daily carbon footprint. By choosing a single destination and exploring it thoroughly, you support the local economy, reduce transportation-related emissions, and forge more authentic connections.

At Club Med, we offer Combo packages that allow you to extend your stay. Why not discover Mauritius or the Maldives by staying in two of our resorts within the same destination, or extend the experience by visiting two of our ski resorts?

You can also opt for a city break or explore nearby towns. Or even combine work and vacation.

Traveling more slowly and staying longer transforms your vacation into a richer and more responsible experience for you and the planet.

Choosing the right airline is essential for responsible travel. Airlines vary in their commitment to reducing their environmental impact, with some investing in fuel-efficient aircraft and more sustainable aviation fuels.

By researching different airlines, you can prioritize those that share your values ​​and actively work to reduce carbon emissions. Supporting these companies not only reduces your carbon footprint but also encourages the industry to adopt more responsible practices.

Discover the environmental impact of your flights. Explore our CO2 filter – which lets you sort flight results based on their carbon footprint. In partnership with Travalyst, Club Med now offers its guests the ability to view flight options based on CO2 emissions. Simply click on the filter and flights will be displayed according to their CO2 emissions.

Discover a more eco-friendly and comfortable alternative to flying. From Paris' Gare de Lyon, Club Med offers trains every Sunday to all our French ski resorts. Enjoy a meal service for adults and children over 2 years old during your journey. Upon arrival, take advantage of a Club Med transfer from your arrival station.

Discover our Villages that offer electric vehicle charging stations and enjoy an even more pleasant stay. Thanks to our electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, you can travel sustainably and with peace of mind. We are proud to support responsible travel by offering our guests environmentally friendly amenities that make a difference.

This service is available to guests who reserve a parking space at our Resorts. To find out which Villages offer this service, please call our call center.

There are many ways to reduce your carbon footprint: travel closer to home, take longer trips, or choose less polluting modes of transport. But to go even further, you can offset your remaining emissions by investing in carbon offsetting projects.

These programs and tools allow you to estimate the environmental impact of your travels and assess the amount of carbon credits needed to offset your impact elsewhere. These credits fund projects that, depending on their nature, either prevent additional emissions into the atmosphere or capture existing carbon.