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Business travel without the carbon footprint – one traveller’s experience - WHEB

Find out how WHEB Partner and Head of Research, Seb Beloe, finds opting for train travel, over flying, for a Nordic client trip.

Posted on Sep 26, 2022

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... ‘Flygskam’ – literally ‘flight shame’ is something that I have felt for some time. But this year, after a particularly carbon-intensive summer holiday meeting up with far-flung family, I could stomach it no longer. An upcoming Nordic trip visiting existing and potential clients was going to have to be conducted largely by train. I say ‘largely’ because the first leg – travelling from London to Oslo – would have required over two days to complete. So, in the end, I couldn’t totally jettison the flygskam and offsetting would have to do for the first leg, but from then on it was train all the way. How hard could it really be? I’ve been interrailing! I’ve even played endless games of ‘Ticket to ride’1 so my knowledge of the European train network must be pretty good…

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