Tourism Emissions Reduction Commitment (TERC) program

A 3-step program that helps you to measure emissions and develop an emissions reduction plan for your business.

This program will provide you with access to Carbonhalo's Industry Climate Action Program – a digital tool that can be used to calculate your business’s carbon footprint and then guide you through the development of a customised emissions reduction plan.

Your emissions reduction plan will contain simple, achievable actions and a timeframe for reducing your business’s emissions. This may include reducing business travel, for example, or installing LED lights.

The TICT recognises that increasingly, visitors to Tasmania are seeking sustainable and low carbon emitting travel options. This is why we are enabling FREE access to this user-friendly, fully accessible module to support tourism operators to reduce emissions across all areas of their businesses until 2028.

Program benefits:

• No carbon knowledge required
• 3-stage path to follow
• Estimate your emissions (with optional advanced measurement features)
• Develop and communicate your emissions reduction plan to guests/customers
• On the ground support, Tasmania-wide
• Support Tasmanian and Australian offsetting projects, to compensate for your unavoidable emissions
• List of key action categories (including actions that are specific to the tourism industry) and 40 of the most common actions plus hints, tips and helpdesk
• TERC logos upon completion with QR code that links to your emissions reduction plan, so that you can communicate what you are doing as a business to your customers.

This program is available for free to Sustainable Tourism Accredited Businesses until 2028.

Want to sign up? Simply email TICT to register your business if you want to know more or aren't sure whether you are eligible.

If you are already a Sustainable Tourism Accredited Business, you can enrol in the TERC program directly via the Quality Tourism Portal.

Not quite sold? Read here about how other Tasmanian tourism businesses are benefitting from the free program to guide progress towards their climate goals.