Doing Well At Doing Good: CSR Initiatives For Corporate Travel On The Rise In AirPlus Survey

AirPlus International, a global leader in corporate travel payment and analysis solutions, releases December’s The Wire…from AirPlustitled: CSR Initiatives Through the Travel Supply Chain. Financial charitable donations and green initiatives ranked top of the list of CSR initiatives valued by buyers and for their preferred suppliers. The survey results highlight however, that while CSR initiatives are gaining in importance in a buyer’s opinion, few RFPs and decisions are currently taken to pick preferred suppliers by such initiatives. For more details, including a complimentary PDF of the full survey results, please visit the AirPlus Community.

“I’m pleased to see that CSR initiatives are gaining in importance within the travel community,” said Richard Crum, President and CEO of AirPlus International, Inc. “At AirPlus, we offer our customers easy and efficient tools to go green; the AirPlus Carbon Offset feature easily offsets a company’s total carbon emission from business travel (when paid through AirPlus) with any sustainability provider worldwide, and our Green Reports provide customers with a comprehensive measurement and analysis tool for their carbon emissions.”

The Wire…from AirPlus is a monthly pulse report for the business travel industry on timely and relevant topics. Results of this edition are based on a survey of 175 corporate travel buyers in North America and Europe from November 10-28, 2011.

AirPlus International is a leading business travel payment solution with a payment suite including lodge/central bill accounts, corporate cards, purchasing cards and online management and analysis tools used by over 35,000 customers worldwide. AirPlus is travel agency neutral, the leading issuer of UATP worldwide and the preferred partner of various airlines such as Air China, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Luxair, Lufthansa German Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, TAP Portugal and Singapore Airlines. For more information, please visit AirPlus.com, contribute to our AirPlus Community, follow us via Twitter and LinkedIn, circle us on Google+ and like us on Facebook.