Fewer flights, more immersion: What is 'tripchaining' and could it help you travel more sustainably?

🌎 Tripchaining can help travellers save money and time, while spending more time in destinations for a more authentic and memorable holiday.

As sustainable travel continues to gather momentum worldwide, travellers are always on the hunt for better ways to reduce the carbon footprint of their holiday.

An emerging travel trend, tripchaining, explores how you can merge two or more destinations in the same region into one longer trip and slash the number of long-haul flights you have to take. 

Initially used to make daily commuter routes more efficient by combining multiple stops for errands, tripchaining is taking hold with sustainable travellers. It also allows you to spend more time in a particular destination, which can help support local economies as well. 

Tour operator Selective Asia says bookings for tripchaining holidays have doubled in the last six months. These findings were supported by sustainable travel experts Byway as well, who found that travellers included an average of 4.5 destinations in one trip in 2024.