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Planners Tackle Plane Travel for the Sake of Greener Events

Isaac Carey

Photo Credit: A Delta aircraft flies over Florida. When it comes to addressing sustainablility, event planners can make the biggest impact by finding greener transportation solutions.  Flickr / Eric Salard

Skift Take

The masses of attendees boarding flights and using cars is a big reason why events have such a negative environmental impact. Transportation needs to be a central focus for planners looking for greener events.

There are hundreds of different ways to make meetings slightly greener. Reducing paper signage, doing away with those free plastic water bottles, and opting for reusable cutlery are all common ways to reduce the environmental impact of a large meeting. While these choices are important, they seem relatively minor when compared to one of the central components of business events: plane travel. Huge trade shows — you know, those really important ones that everyone has to go to — involve thousands upon thousands of attendees, most of whom will be boarding a flight to get to the event location. Once there, they will likely be using taxis or rental cars to get from the hotel to the venue and to everywhere else in between. The carbon footpri

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