Kuoni

Kuoni is an award-winning travel company specialising in tailor-made holidays. From thrilling safaris to tropical escapes, Kuoni’s destination experts seek out amazing experiences, hotels and itineraries worldwide to create exclusive trips for every customer.

Part of the same parent company as Jules Verne and CV Villas, Kuoni takes a proactive approach to its social and environmental impact. It’s fighting plastic waste at its offices through a comprehensive waste audit and thorough employee training on its approach ‘refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle’. They are also focusing on being as energy efficient as possible with nearly 90% of their offices achieving a high level of energy performance and there’s EV charging at its headquarters.

The company is working hard on carbon reduction and has set a clear goal to reduce the carbon footprint of each of its customers by 50% by 2030. Its plans include selling a higher percentage of short-haul holidays, installing solar panels on its buildings, and supporting more hotels to gain certification by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).

Kuoni has received ethy’s Industry Champion ecolabel for the important work it does in supporting the wider travel industry to improve its sustainability. The company shares its reporting and training materials with all stakeholders and travel agent partners, takes part in industry panel discussions, and supports both Der Touristik Foundation and the global accommodation sustainability certification body, Travelife.

The company emphasises employee empowerment and offers a range of benefits such as a Bike2Work scheme, flexible working options and a healthy food policy. Kuoni also provides comprehensive training on carbon literacy and environmental policy and encourages all employees to share their ideas about sustainability.

Like its sister companies, Kuoni takes animal welfare very seriously and has developed its Cruelty-Free Experiences policy in conjunction with ANIMONDIAL, which is considered the leading expert on this issue in tourism. Finally, the company supports a range of charities, including Der Touristik Foundation, Mind, Crisis, and Diversity Role Models, earning it ethy’s Gives to Charity ecolabel.