Spotnana, which offers what the company calls the first Travel-as-a-Service platform, announced an integration with Thrust Carbon, a sustainability intelligence provider. The advanced integration will provide Spotnana customers and channel partners with comprehensive access to Thrust Carbon’s calculation services, according to the announcement.
Johnny Thorsen, vice president of business development for content distribution at Spotnana, said that through the partnership, “every travel manager and traveler using our platform can have a more holistic understanding of their carbon emissions.” He said, “We’re excited to provide our customers and channel partners with Thrust Carbon’s travel emissions data across all forms of travel bookings to facilitate greener travel decisions.”
Corporations, according to the announcement, will be able to benefit from a global view of their travel program’s carbon emissions on Spotnana’s platform for all air, hotel, car and rail travel, using the specific methodology defined by each customer in the Thrust Carbon intelligence platform.
In addition, because Spotnana provides a single, unified platform for travelers and agents, TMCs using Spotnana are able to include Thrust Carbon’s data in both online and offline bookings, enabling corporations to access carbon emissions data across booking channels.
Spotnana will also stream real-time booking data directly into the Thrust Carbon intelligence platform to provide travel managers and travelers access to Thrust Carbon’s advanced analytics capabilities and regulation-ready reporting.
Spotnana and Thrust Carbon, said the announcement, have started mutual development work and will partner on further innovation including analytics, carbon budgeting, in-context recommendations to travelers to make more sustainable travel decisions and optimizing travel policy rules around sustainable travel management.