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Corporate travel supplier questionnaire: climate data, targets and methodology
More than 30,000 hotels calculate a footprint per occupied room with the same free method. The questions to send your travel suppliers, and what a useful answer looks like.
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How to reward employees for saving on business travel
Loyalty programs reward travelers for sticking with one brand, whatever the price. How to set up a reward for booking the cheaper comparable option instead.
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How renewable energy projects help communities
Cheaper power for 25 years, a season of local construction work, and carbon kept off a coal-heavy grid. How one solar program reaches the people around it.
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How travel partners should handle disruption and service recovery
At 11pm a canceled traveler wants a bed, a new flight and someone who picks up. What the airline already owes them, and what the refund rule requires of you.
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How to compare a member rate with a public hotel rate
A worked comparison of a member rate and a public rate for the same room, and why the real saving is usually a bit smaller than the headline gap.
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How employers can assess community-solar impact claims
Whoever produced a provider's impact number had an interest in it being large. Six questions establish whether it holds, and none of them need a technical background.
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Corporate travel dashboards: the metrics worth tracking
Two companies can run identical trips and publish emissions figures a third apart without either being wrong. The differences are choices nobody puts on the dashboard.
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Employee travel benefits ROI: a measurement framework
Vendor ROI numbers come from other companies with other programs. Here is how to build your own, including the denominator most business cases never set.
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How we calculate Dyme's renewable energy impact
Four inputs and two multiplications produce every impact number we publish. Here is the working, the assumptions it rests on, and what we do not claim.
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How airline award availability works, and how to search it
The number your airline quotes you is real, but it answers a question you did not mean to ask. How award inventory works, and the order to search in.
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Private hotel rates: what you get and what you trade
The discount on a private hotel rate comes from the wholesale market, and so does the reason it rarely earns points. Here is the sum that settles it.
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Embedded climate finance: models, funding sources and disclosures
Green bond issuers have answered the awkward question for a decade: where was the money held before you spent it? The framework translates almost line for line.
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Business-Class Travel Policy: The Rule the US Government Uses to Decide
Most policies answer a question about seniority. The rule the US government writes for its own travelers asks whether the better seat is cheaper than paying someone to sleep for a day when they land.
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Membership Travel Benefits: What the FTC Total Price Rule Means
The product exists to say members pay less. Since May 2025 a federal rule says the number allowed to dominate the screen is the total price, not the saving.
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Thanksgiving travel tips: which days to drive, fly and book
Nine in ten Thanksgiving travelers drive, the Sunday after is the busiest day the TSA has ever had, and hotels are emptier than in a normal week.
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How to offer private hotel rates as an employee benefit
The rate is lower because nobody is allowed to see it. That constraint comes from the hotel’s distribution contracts, and it decides how you launch the benefit and how you are allowed to talk about it.
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How to build a preferred-airline program with sustainability criteria
A wide-body business-class seat counts as four economy passengers in the standard your emissions numbers come from. That makes cabin policy a bigger lever than the carrier list.
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How to evaluate climate-impact reporting from a travel-benefit provider
If a vendor’s report subtracts the good thing it funded from the travel it sold you, it is not in a form you can disclose. That is true even when every project behind it is real.
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How employers can evaluate transaction-funded climate-impact benefits
Three questions, an eight-point test the GHG Protocol already publishes, and six documents to ask for. Most of these programs will not touch your Scope 2, and it is better to know that before the audit.
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Dyme rail-versus-air route benchmark: time, price, frequency and transfer assumptions
Air carries about two and a half hours of overhead that rail does not. Measured door to door on three Northeast Corridor routes, that is what decides the mode.
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Employee Travel Benefits: Program Types, Costs, Tax Treatment, and Administration
Employee travel benefits split into cash-funded and vendor-funded types that differ on tax and admin. Compare the types, cost, IRS treatment and setup.
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Hotels Near Major US College Campuses: Close Enough to Skip the Drive
Our collection of hotels near major US college campuses, each within a mile and a half of the campus it serves, for move-in, family weekend and graduation.
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Advanced Strategies for Stacking Chipotle Rewards
You already know the basics. This is the next level: earning Dyme Miles and a travel voucher on the gift card before you spend it, buying in the amounts that earn the most, and redeeming where each reward goes furthest.
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How to Get More Rewards From Your Chipotle Spending
If you eat Chipotle every week, you are already earning something. A few small changes turn the same habit into Chipotle points, Dyme Miles, and a travel voucher, without spending more.