Environment

Yes, we know, air travel is not an environmentally friendly form of transport. Though it could be argued that stopping at lots of countries as part of a single round the world itinerary will use up far fewer resources than making several individual long-haul trips to each destination from the UK would. Also, one way to reduce the carbon footprint of your trip is to include 'surface sectors' e.g. flying into Bangkok and making your way by bus or train down to Singapore instead of flying.

We try to do our bit at Travel Nation and have had this section on our site since we started, long before the environment became fashionable. In the office we re-use and re-cycle stuff where possible. We also make an annual donation to the World Land Trust who save rainforest to offset the carbon dioxide emitted by our share of the flights all of the staff here take each year and in the production of energy consumed by our office.

If you want to make a donation to the World Land Trust to offset your share of the Carbon Dioxide emitted by your aircraft, check out www.carbonbalanced.org though there of course lots of other similar schemes out there.

As a rough guide, a round the world trip would cost between £25 - £50 per person to offset depending the number of miles flown.