Sustainable Travel

Sustainable Travel

It is all of our responsibilities to ensure this wonderful earth is there for future generations. We are doing our best to do our part to ensure this happens.

  • We are delighted to support The Adventure Travel Conservation Fund. It impressed us with its aims -  conservation of the world's natural resources and the socioeconomic stability of local communities.  With these our industry can grow so who else but us should contribute to their conservation?

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    The Adventure Travel Trade Association is the leading community voice for our section of the travel industry. We are proud and active members of this thriving and forward thinking community.

We take Responsible Travel Seriously

Travelling by bike is in itself a minimal-impact approach but we do everything we can as a company, on and off tour to make our impact positive.

We are proud to run an energy-efficient headquarters. The Bike Odyssey head office in Australia is now fully solar-powered, uses 100% recycled paper and we have invested in electric vehicles for all our events around the country.

On Tour, we:

  • Provide Scicon Day Bags our riders use tour after tour rather than throwaway single-tour use daybags.
  • Use genuine silverware, real plates and food storage containers for our gourmet picnics.
  • Use rags for mechanics, no paper rolls.
  • Replaced individually wrapped muesli bars with own made trail mixes with locally sourced treats, replenished each day.
  • Buy bulk powdered energy drinks to avoid any throwaway.
  • Buy locally grown products and foods, they are the best anyway!
  • Have guests use their own water bottles to avoid more plastic throwaways - these are clogging up our oceans!
  • Buy biodegradable garbage bags instead of plastic garbage bags and sort waste for recycling.
  • Replaced plastic luggage tags with tags made of recycled material.
  • Encourage partnering hotels and restaurants to offer filtered water in glass bottles.

Giving Back

We like to give back, both to our riding community and to where it is needed most.

  • We are excited to support World Bicycle Relief's mission of providing bicycles to rural communities around the world. The impact of their work is impressive and we look forward to working with them on projects into the future.