VisitScotland has created a step-by-step guide to help you reduce the climate impact of your tourism business.

The guide includes a range of resources, with easy-to-follow actions to help you on your journey to becoming more sustainable. Take a look at the topics and see which are most useful for your business.

Topics include:

• how to measure your carbon emissions
• practical advice to reduce your business’s emissions
• how to adapt your business to unavoidable climate change
• how to influence customers and suppliers to take positive action
• communicating your climate actions 

Taking responsibility for your business emissions and activities is a big first step on the road to net zero. This guide provides simple actions to help you get started.

If you're not sure where to start, the guide recommends 6 bespoke, quick-start actions to help you reduce your impact over the next 12 months and beyond. The actions are divided between 3 reduction themes: energy, waste management and business transport.

Anyone can use this service, although the guide has been designed specifically to help tourism businesses that are starting or at an early stage of their climate action journey.

Businesses that are more advanced on their journey might still find it useful to incorporate elements of this guide into their current plans by developing more advanced actions.

This is a free service.

Tourism businesses in Scotland.

It should take around 55 minutes to read the full guide. The quick version will take around 5 minutes.

You will then need time to download and complete the climate action workbook and create your climate action plan. This will vary from business to business.

Visit the VisitScotland website to read the guide.