Delray Beach, FL — March 22, 2022. Hickory Global Partners, a leading global corporate travel alliance for travel management companies (TMCs), corporate travel departments (CTDs) and corporations has entered into a new partnership with Thrust Carbon, who builds technology that enables the world’s most forward-thinking companies to offer green products, and to operate sustainably.

The new partnership will enable HICKORY’S over 2500 member TMCs, CTDS and corporate direct clients to be able to take advantage of Thrust Carbon’s sustainable travel technology. Thrust Carbon is on a mission to make travel effortlessly green by turning complex into simple, by creating easy-to-use software, free integrations and total transparency. Thrust Carbon is a pioneering IATA and BTN award-winning green tech startup that delivers carbon calculations, reductions, removal and offsetting. The company’s tools are designed to be effortless to deploy across your organization. Its software products can be used with no setup, and their API solutions have been built so your developers can integrate within hours. Hickory Global Partners is the first consortia that Thrust Carbon will be partnering with in the United States, further illustrating Hickory’s commitment to being on the cutting edge of the travel industry, while supporting sustainability initiatives to make our world a greener place.

“In a world where sustainability is so critical to our planet, we are thrilled to partner with such a worthwhile and progressive company as Thrust Carbon to help bring their green travel technology to our members,” states Chris Dane, President and Managing Partner of Hickory Global Partners.

“We’re delighted to launch our partnership and be working closely with Hickory Global Partners to ensure their members have access to market-leading emissions intelligence solutions and data. As more and more organizations step up their ambitions for more sustainable travel, it is incredibly important to ensure that we can support these ambitions with accurate and transparent data,” says Glenn Thorsen, Head of Partnerships at Thrust Carbon.

Some of the many benefits of using Thrust Carbon technology include the folllowing: Analyzing every travel emission, including flights, hotels, car hire, taxis, trains, ferries, meetings and more, exploring historical emissions in depth (understanding the business units that emit and how they emit), being proactive instead of reactive with visibility into your future emissions, sharing your analysis and strategy with beautiful impact reports that Thrust Carbon software offers, access to offsets and sustainability project contributions alongside your reporting and alignment with organizational carbon targets sustainability goals.

For more information, please contact partnercare@hickoryglobalpartners.com.

About Hickory Global Partners

Founded over 40 years ago, Hickory Global Partners is an industry-leading global alliance for corporate travel agencies, corporate travel departments (CTDs) and corporations that delivers unparalleled negotiated discounts and commissions, resources, support and value that significantly benefits its members, and ultimately, their clients. Hickory Global Partners bridges the gap between members and suppliers and raises the bar on what being a global corporate travel alliance is all about. Its visionary hotel program, robust air program, one-of-a kind ground transportation program, comprehensive ancillary portfolio and cutting-edge technology and tools, make HICKORY an important strategic partner in the corporate travel industry. For more information, visit www.hickoryglobalpartners.com.

About Thrust Carbon

Thrust Carbon has a vision of a world where our actions don’t have to cost the earth. As the leading carbon intelligence platform in travel, they report, reduce, and remove emissions. Their IATA & BTN award-winning products are easy to integrate, deliver market leading accuracy, and total transparency. For more information, visit www.thrustcarbon.com or email Glenn Thorsen, Head of Partnerships, at glenn@thrustcarbon.com.