Sustainable Tourism: Achievements & Targets

Ski Beat's green aims and targets for season 09/10:

Undertake an energy audit of our UK operations
Carbon offset contributions will be put towards a new project in the Chamonix Valley.
Halve the amount of paper brochures sent to our agents, encouraging them to use our E-brochure
Reduce the amount of brochures printed
Ensure that our 09/10 printed brochures have used materials guaranteed to have been produced from well-managed forests. Our brochure printers Midas Press have achieved FSC Chain of Custody Certification and PEFC
Strive to achieve AITO’s new 5 Star RT rating

Achievements for season 08/09:

Carbon offset contributions for 08/09 have been added to those from the previous year, and we are proud to announce that these are enabling the completion of the Engine Conversion Boat project
Reduced our paper consumption by emailing all correspondence with clients, instead of posting
Reduced our paper consumption with suppliers by encouraging them to send us e-invoices and in return corresponding with them by email.
Maintained our position as the most eco-friendly ski chalet company of our size: we were awarded AITO's 4 star rating in Oct 2008. (5 being the maximum).

Achievements for season 07/08:

We have persuaded builders of four of our six new chalets to use green technology to make more eco-friendly ski chalets - for example a zero emissionn bio-mass heating systems in Chalet Adelphine, Meribel, or collecting melted snow to provide water where untreated water can be used, in Pierra Menta 1 & 2 in La Plagne
Provide a carbon offset service with TICOS to help offset your emissions - see how your funds are making a difference
Make all our ski flight to Chambery ticketless: we believe that this and other measures will cut our paper consumption a further 10%
Ski Beat no longer sends a hard copy newsletter in the Spring, this has saved 42,000 bits of A4 paper plus almost 20,000 envelopes. For up to date news and offers please see our website, and make sure we have your email address so that you will receive future e-newsletters.
Ski Beat encourages car sharing in its UK office, we estimate that this has already cut emissions from travel by our UK team by 20%
By offering flexi-time within the UK we believe that we have better coverage for our phone lines and cut our emissions by a further 4%
By switching off lights on bright days and removing the starter motors from lights next to the windows we have cut our electricity consumption on lighting by some 30%
Ski Beat was awarded 3-stars under the AITO responsible tourism scheme. This recognised us to be the top eco-friendly ski chalet operator and was partly due to our new eco-friendly ski chalets

Achievements for season 06/07:

Ski Beat was awarded 2-stars under the AITO responsible tourism scheme. This made us one of only three ski holiday companies awarded more than one star
We reduced our paper consumption (except for our brochure) by 37% per skier compared with the previous winter. This was largely through introducing ticketless flights to the Alps
Almost completely eliminated wasted brochures: as at 1 July 2007 we had less than 150 brochures remaining from last winter. It would be far better not to print them: please use our digital e-brochure particularly if you want to pass our brochure on to a friend