sustainability

We strive to be the world’s most sustainable flight specialist and a beacon of positive change for our sector.

At Exito, sustainability is a mindset woven through every facet of our work. We understand true sustainability is an ongoing journey that requires continuous action, education, evaluation, communication, and collaboration.

Pillars & Milestones

EXITO PLANET CARE

EXITO PLANET CARE

Exito is the first and only flight specialist to offset, at our own expense, 100% of the CO2 emissions from our direct travelers’ flights. We do this through payments to the climate impact portfolio of Sustainable Travel International.
To date, we've offset more than 50,000,000 air miles from 4,000+ travelers’ flights. That’s over 6,000 tons of CO2 - equivalent to taking 1,300 cars off the road for a year.

1% FOR THE PLANET

1% FOR THE PLANET

As a business member of 1% for the Planet, Exito commits to donating at least 1% of our annual revenues to approved environmental and conservation organizations.
To date, we've donated $44,000 to a handful of 1% for the Planet environmental organizations. You can learn more about them, their work and their missions here.

IMPACT FLIGHT GRANTS

IMPACT FLIGHT GRANTS

Exito is making flights a force for good with our Impact Flight Grants to vetted conservation leaders around the globe.

These flights facilitate hands-on exchange and knowledge sharing between grantees and their mentors and peers abroad in order to accelerate their own conservation work back home.

Read about our inaugural Impact Flight Grants here.

EXITO COMMUNITY CARE

EXITO COMMUNITY CARE

Exito believes making a difference begins at home. That’s why we offer each of our team members a yearly paid day off to volunteer with grassroots organizations close to their hearts and making a positive impact in their home communities around the globe.

Signposts

We believe travel is essential and transformative. At the same time, we understand travel emits heat-trapping CO2 and that flights in particular are hard to mitigate. Knowing both these things to be true, we’ve created 5 signposts to guide our sustainability journey and to help us minimize our travelers’ impacts on the environment along the way. These are:
To not let perfect be the enemy of good.

While no perfect solution currently exists to make flying emissions free, there are several good ways to mitigate the impacts of flight CO2. This will be our path.

We do this by paying into the 3rd party certified carbon reduction projects of Sustainable Travel International. We call this Exito Planet Care.

To date, about a dozen of our tour operator partners have joined Exito Planet Care. Together, we’re offsetting the CO2 emissions from thousands of travelers’ flights. We’ll continue to invite more of our partners to join Planet Care in the coming years.

Including ideas such as: taking fewer trips of longer duration, substituting trains for planes when feasible, taking direct flights if possible, and building awareness of and support for budding carbon capture and removal technologies and for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Every so often we’ll take measure of the distance we’ve traveled, even as we keep our eyes fixed firmly on the road ahead.

Exito Planet Care FAQ

A: We use Grasp Technologies to measure CO2 flight emissions from Exito’s travelers. The Grasp CO2 calculation is modeled after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) methodology. Further measurement details can be found here.

A: We partner with Sustainable Travel International. More on STI can be found here.

A: STI powers a variety of carbon offset and carbon reduction projects that benefit both people and nature, including: forests, clean energy and blue carbon projects. View STI’s portfolio of carbon offset and reduction projects here.

A: Absolutely. Sustainable Travel International’s CO2 offset projects adhere to the highest international standards and are audited yearly to ensure the additionality and environmental integrity of its projects. Read more about STIs verification standards here.

Alongside more than 25 years of global airfare expertise, service and value, it’s our unrivalled sustainability commitment that makes Exito your partner in flight – and your flight partner for the planet.

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