Start-up travel management company COCO+, which wraps up the cost of offsetting business travel in its transaction fees, has begun onboarding customers.
The UK-based company launched a fuel card that incorporates carbon offsetting a year ago and is now launching its business travel platform.
CEO and co-founder Neil Fincham-Dukes said the company offsets all emissions associated with a booking through gold-standard ClimateCare projects worldwide and is aiming to establish a foundation to operate sustainability projects in the UK.
“We felt if we can run a digital first, technology-led business and strip out some of the overheads, that we’d be able to provide a platform whereby we can actually pay for the offsets out of the commissions we earn in the back end so the customer doesn’t have to worry about it [offsetting] at all,” Fincham-Dukes told BTN Europe, adding that COCO+ transaction fees are “no more expensive” than its competitors.
“We’re using commissions to do…