easyJet holidays has today released its first Impact Report, outlining the company’s commitment to providing brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices, whilst extending this to make more sustainable holidays mainstream through three key pillars of its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy, ‘Holiday Better’.

The report aims to exhibit the company’s impact and progress throughout 2024. With this simple yet impactful approach, easyJet holidays is ensuring they collaborate with organisations and individuals that help to move these ambitions forward, combining industry expertise and influence with innovative thinking and problem-solving skills.

The three core goals that guide the ESG strategy are:

Create Better Holiday Choices

With an aim to make more sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone, easyJet holidays is working with hotel partners to achieve globally recognised sustainability certifications to ensure all customers can make better holidays choices at no extra cost.

In addition to the animal welfare policy announced in March 2024, easyJet holidays has launched electric vehicle transfers in partnership with its Destination Management Company in Greece, and joined forces with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council to offer a dedicated sustainable tourism course for hotel partners in Spain, Greece and Turkey. Results include:

• Over 300 hotels signing up for GSTC sustainability training
• 37% of the holiday providers best-selling properties are certified
• The new electric transfer fleet in Rhodes has transferred more than 5,200 passengers 152,000km, saving the equivalent of 27 tonnes of CO₂e.

Keep Our Holidays Special

By supporting locally owned businesses and communities, easyJet holidays is looking to maximise the benefits and minimise the negative impacts of travel and tourism. With a focus on lesser-known destinations, easyJet holidays is looking to offer customers experiences away urban tourist hotspots, while providing a range of socio-economic benefits to the local economies including employment for local partners in destination.

Ways they have done this include partnerships with Destination Management Companies (DMCs) and the introduction of food waste reduction AI technology in Costa Adeje.

Results include:

• 56% reduction in buffet waste at Bahia Principe Sunlight Costa Adeje following the implementation of the Winnow AI Technology partnership, leading to an estimated saving of over €100,000 of food in one year
• Increased income for the tourism sector in Akureyri, Iceland, following the launch of easyJet holidays last winter, along with more year-round jobs and reduced seasonality
• Delivering 99% local employment for our destination management companies

Transform Travel for Everyone

By embedding sustainability into business decision and behaviours, easyJet holidays is looking to drive meaningful change within the industry, prioritising working towards solutions to the biggest issues and asking better of themselves and partners in the supply chain.

As part of this, easyJet holidays has formed key partnerships with:

• UN Tourism: Working to develop the first tourism specific ESG Framework, including an investigative survey with hundreds of hotel and DMC partners, showcasing the wider supply chains engagement in sustainability practices
• ICRT Global: As a founding partner of the not-for-profit organisation, easyJet holidays is providing support towards ICRT Global training courses, helping to improve education and knowledge sharing on responsible tourism
• ABTA: working closely with the UK’s leading travel association on sustainability in travel and making progress towards joint ESG goals

Matt Callaghan, easyJet holidays’ Chief Operating Officer, said: “Our first Impact Report marks a significant milestone for us on our journey to support our customers to Holiday Better, and whilst we’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far, in collaboration with our partners, it’s clear that now is the time to deliver progress in order to meet both short and long term targets, and that’s why we believe in the need for pace over perfection. We’re focusing on solutions and partnerships to make our holidays more sustainable, and we’re using rapid implementation to trial projects and share our results with the industry”

You can view the full 2024 Impact Report here

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays, which launched in 2019, is a leading package holiday provider which operates from the UK, Switzerland, Germany and France. The company took over 2.5 million customers on holiday in 2024. 

Named UK & Ireland Travel Company of the Year 2024, it offers great value beach and city holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe and North Africa, directly through its website and through over 7000 travel agent partners. The ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights and accommodation, as well as 23kg luggage and transfers on beach breaks. 

easyJet holidays is a member of ABTA, and all packages are covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. 

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award, easyJet holidays’ sustainability strategy, ‘Holiday Better’, focuses on three key pillars – create better holiday choices by making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special by maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone by embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. The tour operator has partnered with UN Tourism to help develop the first environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for tourism businesses, co-designing a measurement tool that is meaningful and feasible for better monitoring how tourism businesses impact, and depend on, people, planet and prosperity. 

easyJet holidays was named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work in 2023 and 2024.