Book a carbon-neutral hotel, anywhere in the world.

A flight where the airline funds reforestation equal to the trip’s emissions. A coffee brand that buys removal credits to cancel out its roasting and shipping CO₂. A hotel stay booked through IMPT — where 1 ton of CO₂ is removed via Climeworks direct-air-capture per booking, about 40× the room’s actual footprint.

Carbon neutral tourism is travel where the CO₂ impact of every leg — flights, hotels, ground transport, food — is measured and offset or removed. The World Travel & Tourism Council defines it as net-zero emissions across the trip lifecycle. Hotels are the easiest leg to neutralise: emissions are well-measured (HCMI methodology) and credits are bookable in real time.

A stricter standard than carbon neutral. Net zero hotels measure all operational emissions (Scope 1, 2, and ideally 3), reduce them as far as physically possible through efficiency upgrades, then remove the rest via permanent storage. Net zero ≠ carbon neutral — net zero implies removals only (not avoidance offsets), and prioritises reduction over compensation.

A credit representing one ton of CO₂ avoided or removed elsewhere. Buying an offset lets you compensate for your hotel’s carbon footprint. There are two types: avoidance offsets (e.g. paying a landowner not to cut down a forest) and removal offsets (e.g. Climeworks direct-air-capture). IMPT funds removal offsets — the more climate-rigorous type.

Climate positive (sometimes called "net negative") means removing more CO₂ than is emitted. Booking through IMPT puts your hotel stay in this category — we remove 1 ton of CO₂ per booking, whereas a typical hotel night emits about 25 kg. That’s a 40× safety margin, making the stay climate positive, not just neutral.

Carbon credits are tradeable certificates representing 1 ton of CO₂ reduction or removal. Each IMPT booking generates a removal credit issued by Climeworks and recorded on a public ledger. The credit is "retired" (taken off the market) and attributed to your stay — it can’t be double-counted or resold.

Not automatically. Per-night Airbnb emissions average 18–32 kg CO₂ — comparable to a mid-tier hotel and higher than an efficient one. Airbnbs lack the scale to invest in heat pumps, smart HVAC, or grey-water systems. The accommodation type doesn’t decide the footprint; the booking does. IMPT cancels the carbon either way.

Almost certainly yes. IMPT’s network covers 8 million hotels in 220+ countries — every property is bookable carbon-neutrally. Search by your location to see the closest verified options.

Major chains running formal carbon-neutral programmes include Iberostar (since 2020), Accor, Marriott (committed 2050), Hilton LightStay, IHG Green Engage, and Six Senses. Through IMPT, all of these chains plus 800+ others become carbon-neutral at the booking level — the climate cost of your specific stay gets removed regardless of the chain’s own roadmap.

Only three countries are currently net carbon-negative: Bhutan, Suriname, and Panama. All three combine small populations with forest cover above 50% of land area, so natural sinks absorb more CO₂ than the economy emits. Costa Rica, Iceland, and Uruguay are closest among developed economies but still rely on offsets to balance the books.

Copenhagen, Reykjavík, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Oslo lead the rankings — small populations, abundant hydro or geothermal power, and aggressive district-heating programmes. Copenhagen was first to publicly target net-zero (2025 goal missed; revised to 2030). At city scale, no major capital has yet hit verified neutrality without relying on offsets.

Roughly 140 countries representing 88% of global emissions now have net-zero targets. Notable pledges: Finland (2035, earliest among industrialised nations), Sweden and Germany (2045), the EU, UK, US, Japan, South Korea, and Canada (all 2050). These are pledges, not yet outcomes — only Bhutan, Suriname, and Panama are currently net-negative.

Energy production leads at ~25% of global CO₂, followed by agriculture and land use (24%), industry (21%), and transport (14%). Tourism — flights plus accommodation — accounts for roughly 8% of global emissions, with hotels around 1%. Small share, but high per-traveller, which is why neutralising at the booking level matters.

The standard methodology is the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative (HCMI), endorsed by the World Travel & Tourism Council. It measures kg CO₂ per room-night across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. A typical European mid-tier hotel runs 18–35 kg CO₂ per night; luxury and conference hotels can hit 80–120 kg.

Yes, but it’s clunky — you’d have to calculate your stay’s emissions, find a verified registry (Verra, Gold Standard, Puro), buy a credit, and retire it manually. That’s about $40 of work for $5 of credit. IMPT does all of this automatically at booking time, and we use higher-grade removal credits (Climeworks DAC, roughly $500/ton) — funded from our commission share so you don’t pay extra.

Yes — Booking.com’s 2024 Sustainable Travel Report found 75% of travellers want to travel more sustainably, and 43% are willing to pay more for verified eco options. IMPT’s model removes the "pay more" barrier: same price, but the climate cost gets cancelled at booking time.

Not when it’s measurable. IMPT publishes the exact tonnage removed for every booking, the certificate ID, and the third-party auditor (Cabot, DNV). You can verify any specific removal on the Climeworks public ledger. Greenwashing thrives on vagueness — we publish the receipts.

A safety margin. Hotel emissions vary widely — a mid-tier business hotel might be 80–120 kg per night once you include laundry, transport, and food waste. Removing more than you emit also moves the world toward net-negative, which is where the climate maths actually needs to land.

If you cancel, the booking doesn’t happen, so the linked removal doesn’t either. If you change dates, the removal carries with the booking.

Some are (look for Green Key, EarthCheck, or Travelife badges on their detail pages). Most operate sustainability programmes at varying maturity; the offset-via-IMPT layer covers the rest, so every booking is neutral regardless of where the hotel sits on its own roadmap.

An offset prevents emissions from happening (e.g. funding a forest not to be cut down). A removal pulls CO₂ that’s already in the atmosphere out and stores it permanently (e.g. direct-air-capture). Removals are 10–50× more expensive but climate-scientifically more rigorous. IMPT funds removals.

Same rooms, same prices, same instant confirmation. The differences: 1 ton of CO₂ removed per stay via Climeworks, a verified removal certificate attributed to your booking, climate-positive routing of our commission, and eco credentials surfaced on every property page.

Yes. Every one of the 8 million hotels in our network is eligible. The removal funding is built into our booking flow, not an opt-in checkbox — so you can’t accidentally skip it.

8 million properties across 220+ countries. Inventory is strongest in Western Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Austria), East Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan), and the Gulf (UAE).

Google penalises unsubstantiated claims. IMPT’s position: we don’t claim the hotels themselves are neutral; we claim that booking through us makes the stay neutral, because we’re funding a verified removal for every booking. Substantiated, auditable claims are fine — vague ones aren’t.