How it Works

Reduce 100% of your Company’s Hotel Stay CO2 Emissions Today


The CLC Lodging Card, with Clean Advantage® Travel, is an eco-friendly program that gives card users the advantage of offsetting 100% of their CO2 emissions from their hotel stays. As part of the Clean Advantage® program, CLC Lodging supports a variety of initiatives, across numerous projects, that sequester CO2 locally and around the world.

CheckINN Card by CLC Lodging is More than a Money Saving Tool

As always, your CLC Lodging Card provides you and your company significant savings and helps you reduce your expenses. Now, with your CLC Lodging Card, your company can positively contribute to saving and protecting your community’s environment with the Clean Advantage® Travel Program as well.


Who We Are

Clean Advantage® Travel is a turnkey sustainability program, brought to you by CLC Lodging, FLEETCOR, and PDI Technologies, Inc. This program automatically calculates your hotel stay CO2 emissions and reduces them through proportionate investments in projects that sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, providing your company the Clean Advantage®.


See What Your Guests Are Saying

Today’s consumers are increasingly demanding sustainable initiatives from the brands and companies they support. The result is that companies across the world are taking notice. Read below to see what some industry leaders are saying about sustainability and the benefits a sustainable program. Don’t forget to sign up for the Clean Advantage™ Lodging program to take advantage of the over 13 million room nights booked through CLC Lodging annually.

  • “We embed the three pillars of sustainability into our strategy, our key performance indicators, how we reward people. Our buying people have KPIs on the percentage of sustainable sourcing, we measure how many small-holder farmers we employ, we measure the full impact of water, carbon, packaging, waste, of all of our products and reward our people for moving in the right direction.”

    Paul Polman, CEO at Unilever

  • “We continue to be the impressed with Clean Advantage. Today, Clean Advantage provides our company a unique competitive differentiator and allows us to “check the box” on sustainability without having to invest in expensive programs, products, or hardware.”
    David L.
  • “84 percent of consumers globally say they seek out responsible products whenever possible.”

    Cone Communications

  • “I love knowing that my employees are planting trees and doing good every time we stay at a hotel with our CheckINN card. The discounted rates plus the sustainability package has made the card a no brainer.”

    Dylan K.

  • “Global consumers are willing to put their money where their heart is when it comes to goods and services from companies committed to social responsibility.”

    Nielsen, 2015

  • “If I learned that a company was making a great effort to adopt environmentally conscious practices, I would be more likely to purchase that company’s
    products or services.”

    Gibbs and Soell

  • “We get the occasional request to see what our company is doing for sustainability, staying at hotels with the Clean Advantage program has allowed us to check that box with no effort and an extremely low cost.”

    Kelsey M.

Clean Advantage® Travel Benefits

We offset carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by investing in a growing portfolio of reforestation, alternative energy, biomass, and other projects both locally and globally. By performing all the heavy lifting, the Clean Advantage Travel program provides a simple and powerful corporate sustainability and goodwill initiative for your company.

  • Support – Working out the exact amount of CO2e your company’s hotel stays are producing can be a very complex process, but with the the Clean Advantage® Travel, we take care of this worry for you.
  • Simplicity – Once you join the Clean Advantage® Travel program you only need to check your CLC Lodging account for updates and additional information.
  • Scale – No customer is too big or small. We are always happy to select unique and local projects when available.
  • Build Goodwill – Participating in the Clean Advantage® Travel program will allow you to market your sustainable efforts to both your customers and community.
  • Annual Carbon Reduction E-Certificate – At your request we are happy to provide annual e-certificates that document your company’s CO2 reductions.
  • Expertise – The Clean Advantage Travel program and project portfolio are managed by PDI Sustainability Solutions, a global leader in ESG strategy. All projects meet recognized standards and requirements, follow specific third-party approved methodologies, monitor emission reductions and avoidances, and are verified by independent third parties.

Sustainability Made Easy for Business

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