How is this different from 'Hotel stay' used for business travel?

'Hotel stay' covers accommodation for the organisation's own employees travelling on business. This page covers accommodation the organisation books for clients as part of a trip package it sells.

How do we split room-nights across a multi-country itinerary?

Break the total room-nights down by the country where each hotel stay actually took place, using your booking system's itinerary data, then apply the matching country subtype to each portion.

What if our destination isn't in the available country list?

Use the closest comparable regional or average subtype available, and note that a more specific factor may become available as the platform's coverage grows.

Does this include accommodation the client books independently?

No - only accommodation the operator purchases and includes within the package. Accommodation the client arranges and pays for separately sits outside this Category 1 boundary.

Should cancelled bookings be excluded from room-night totals?

Yes - only count room-nights actually used, based on final booking or invoice data, not the originally reserved room-nights before cancellations.

Activity data·Sector & specialist

How to measure emissions from Trips: Accommodation

Trips: Accommodation covers hotel stays booked as part of a package a tour operator sells to clients, reported in room-nights by destination country under Scope 3 Category 1 - distinct from 'Hotel stay', which covers employee business-travel accommodation. Pull room-nights from your booking or reservation system, splitting multi-country itineraries by destination so the correct country factor applies to each leg.

Scope: Scope 3 Category 1
What activity data you need: room.night
Activity data: Sector & specialist

What counts as Trips: Accommodation

Accommodation activity data for organised trips - for example, tour or travel operators booking hotel stays for clients. Reported in room-nights by destination country, reflecting the location where the accommodation was actually used.

Part of the 'Trips' sub-cluster used by tour operators and travel businesses reporting the footprint of packages they sell, sitting in Category 1 because accommodation is purchased by the operator as an input to the trip product. The platform holds room-night factors for a wide range of destination countries plus some regional or UK-specific splits; match the subtype to where the accommodation is actually located, not where the client departs from.

How to collect the data

Use your booking system or reservation data to give room-nights by destination for each trip departure, aggregated across the reporting period. Where a package includes multiple hotels across a multi-country itinerary, split room-nights by country so the correct destination factor applies to each leg.

What activity data you need

Collect the most specific physical unit available. Unit definitions are in Appendix I — Description of Units.

room.night

Which emission scope it falls under

Trips: Accommodation activity data typically maps to Scope 3 Category 1 under the GHG Protocol. Confirm organisational boundary and ownership before reporting.

Scope 3 Category 1

By emission scope

Scope 3 Category 1

Compliance frameworks

Compliance & reporting frameworks

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Common questions

How is this different from 'Hotel stay' used for business travel?: 'Hotel stay' covers accommodation for the organisation's own employees travelling on business. This page covers accommodation the organisation books for clients as part of a trip package it sells.
How do we split room-nights across a multi-country itinerary?: Break the total room-nights down by the country where each hotel stay actually took place, using your booking system's itinerary data, then apply the matching country subtype to each portion.
What if our destination isn't in the available country list?: Use the closest comparable regional or average subtype available, and note that a more specific factor may become available as the platform's coverage grows.
Does this include accommodation the client books independently?: No - only accommodation the operator purchases and includes within the package. Accommodation the client arranges and pays for separately sits outside this Category 1 boundary.
Should cancelled bookings be excluded from room-night totals?: Yes - only count room-nights actually used, based on final booking or invoice data, not the originally reserved room-nights before cancellations.

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