Who's behind it?

The project was originally initiated 2017 by the Climate Smart Vacation Network of West Sweden, which consists of researchers, public bodies and tourism actors in Gothenburg and West Sweden, with the aim of collectively addressing tourism’s contribution to climate change. 

The aim with the Travel and Climate initiative (in Swedish, Klimatsmart semester) is to help make tourism more sustainable by developing a digital platform with tools and knowledge content that can help people to holiday with a smaller climate footprint. It also aims to assist the tourism industry’s sustainability efforts. 

The initiative receives, or has received, funding from the West Sweden Tourist Board, Region Västra Götaland, the City of Gothenburg, the Centre for Tourism at the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, Mistra Sustainable Consumption, and the Swedish Energy Agency. The network is operated as a collaboration between Chalmers and the Centre for Tourism at the University of Gothenburg. Chalmers Next Labs is the administrative party for Klimatsmart semester

Jörgen Larsson, senion researcher at Chalmers, is primarily responsible for all the numerical data and for the method report that has been produced, a work in which Anneli Kamb, doctoral student at KTH (formerly Gothenburg University and Chalmers) has participated. Erik Lundberg represents The Center for Tourism at Gothenburg University. Fredrik Warberg, Tidsverkstaden, has acted as project manager and Erik Nylund, Cosmovalent, is the project's IT developer.

The first version of klimatsmartsemester.se was released in May 2018. Travelandclimate.org was released together with version 2.0 in May 2019, version 3.0 in May 2022, version 4.0 in May 2024 and the current version 5 in May 2026.

Contact: info@travelandclimate.org