Why a tonne, not a night
Most hotels offer "carbon-neutral nights" priced at the actual emission of that night — a few euros, sometimes a few cents. We think that's the wrong frame. It treats carbon as a line-item the traveller has to opt into, and the maths only ever cancel out. We pay for 28× a typical night, on every booking. The math is supposed to be in surplus.
How the offset is funded
Hotels pay IMPT a commission for every booking. We take a portion of that commission and use it to retire verified carbon credits on-chain. The traveller's bill is unaffected. The hotel's payout is unaffected. The economics happen between IMPT and the carbon market.
What "on-chain retirement" actually means
A carbon credit is a permission slip — one credit = one tonne of avoided or removed CO₂. To use it, you have to retire it: mark it as spent, so nobody else can claim the same tonne. Doing the retirement on a public blockchain creates a permanent, verifiable record. No double-counting, no quietly reselling the same offset to another brand next quarter.
What we won't claim
- We won't claim your stay is "carbon neutral". It's better — we offset 28× the night.
- We won't claim 1 tonne perfectly cancels every individual stay's full footprint (flights, food, etc.). It doesn't. It's a meaningful contribution to the bigger problem.
- We won't sell offsets back to you as a feature, or charge an "eco-fee".
Reporting & audit
For corporate travel teams, every booking comes with a verifiable on-chain receipt. The dashboard agent aggregates per-trip retirement totals so your finance team and your auditor can both see a single number: tonnes retired, on which dates, against which credits. More for travel managers →