Agoda is launching Eco Deals with accommodation partners in five countries – Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore – to offer travellers between 5% and 15% discounts on their bookings.
For each booking, Agoda will contribute to WWF-Singapore’s marine conservation and flood-affected wildlife protection, as part of its partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (Singapore) Limited) to support marine habitat restoration efforts.
In this campaign launch involving WWF-Singapore, Agoda and its hotel and accommodation partners will fund efforts to raise awareness about responsible tourism, enabling the restoration of marine habitats such as coral reefs and mangroves in Southeast Asia, and protecting wildlife affected by floods in Australia.
Agoda’s Sustainable Travel Trends Survey (2021) found consumers want to travel more sustainably, and that polluted beaches and waterways ranked as the top concern of Filipino tourists; second for Australians, Indonesian, and Malaysians; and third for Singaporeans.
Aside from an Eco Deals badge to support and highlight participating properties, Agoda will develop a dedicated landing page which will be launched to consumers on June 8, 2022, to help consumers quickly find properties that support the Eco Deals activity.
“In a post-COVID world, people are more aware of their impact on the places and communities they visit when travelling and are actively looking for ways and means to make their ecological footprint smaller. Through Agoda’s Eco Deals initiative we provide consumers opportunities to ‘give back’ as part of our partners’ and Agoda’s social responsibility commitment,” said Enric Casals, Regional Vice President Southeast Asia and Oceania.
“The ocean is the largest ecosystem on the planet, covering more than 70% of the earth’s surface area. It regulates our global climate, produces about half the oxygen we breathe, and provides food and livelihoods to millions of people on the planet. However, many of the marine ecosystems have been facing existential threats due to human activities and we must take action now,” said WWF-Singapore’s CEO, R. Raghunathan.
