Carbon offset your holiday

The environment is central to Pure Crete. We restore locally owned village houses, support the installation of solar panels and have helped to protect endangered species such as the loggerhead turtle and bearded vulture in Crete. In the UK we use recycled paper, renewable energy and practice energy efficiency.

Now we intend to enable our customers to help to offset the carbon from their flight. We will be adding a £3.50 carbon offset charge per passenger on each invoice in 2008 that clients can pay or opt out of. Tell us what you think by e mail on info@pure-crete.com

The carbon offset charge will be invested by Carbon Offset Ltd. in projects which both offset carbon emissions and support communities in the developing world such as fuel efficiency, solar power generation, planting organic food crops, biofuel etc. Pure Crete is also developing its own carbon offset schemes in Crete that will be fully accredited.

When in Crete please visit or stay at our properties at Malaxa where Demetrios Vamvounakis* (Chair of Gaia) will be happy to discuss environmental initiatives in Crete.

For further information contact Dick Sisman AITO’s responsible tourism advisor at dick@dicksisman.com or visit www.ticos.co.uk  The Carbon Offset Ltd website will be live in January.

We hope that you will support our carbon offset charge, our ambition of carbon neutral holidays and our other environmental initiatives in Crete.

*Demetrios Vamvounakis, the owner of two of our houses in Malaxa, has recently established a small conference/seminar facility set in wonderful mountain scenery. The facility is are particularly suitable for small groups of geologists, botanists archaeologists, academic and other groups associated with environmental issues.  Please call the Pure Crete office on 020 8760 0879 for details.