Our History

 

Frequent air travelling consumes massive amount of energy from burning fossil fuel. According to the Environmental Protection Department, the average carbon footprint per Hong Kong citizen is 6 tonnes of carbon dioxide. While WWF-Hong Kong initiated a carbon footprint calculator in 2007, which collected carbon footprint from over 5800 Hong Kong residents. The average annual carbon dioxide emission was found to be 13.44 tonnes instead, more than 2 times of the initial figure. Over 50% of the emission was originated from air travelling.

 

We are a group of youngsters who are pursuing tertiary education in environment-related programme. This shocking research finding captured our attention, triggering us to seek solutions that may alter the trend until it becomes irremediable. The idea of V’air was born during the periphery of the 2015 COP21 climate change conference. Facing the imminent climate crisis, as youths, we may not be able to bring profound changes to the world. Nonetheless, however insignificant, we wish to dedicate our efforts in influencing Hong Kong-ers to take a more active role to combat climate change. Over this issue, our team carried out both primary and secondary research methodology to generate trends in air-travelling of Hong Kong-ers. Short-distance trips to South-east Asian countries were found to be the top priorities of Hong Kong people. The purpose of travelling is usually attributed to the activities in Hong Kong being overly unitary. They look for refreshment and excitement during a trip. Our team realized it is essential to introduce the ‘wow’ factor in scenic spots in Hong Kong, so as to attract the locals to travel more locally.

 

Our Mission

 

V’air is a homophone to Verte in French, which stands for the colour green. It displays our mission of making the earth a greener planet with less degradation in environment. V’air is not an airline, but it operates like an airline, brings joy to customers like an airline, offers far more than an airline. V’air takes the role of exploring local attractions off the beating track. We are aware of the post-travel syndrome that a lot of people face after their trips. The sense of void and emptiness strikes travellers as they have not gained anything practical after the trips. The value-adding feature in V’air is specially designed to address this problem. Through offering Hong Kong-ers with options for enrichment, we encourage them to constructively utilize their holiday time to pick up a new skill or hobby. In the near future, we hope to  partner up with local people in indigenous villages of Hong Kong. As such, V’air will take up a facilitating role for them to promote local tours with the offer a tour feature. We will also come up with some full itineraries up to 5 days, with scenic spots, meals, accommodation planned, resembling a trip to foreign countries. Hong Kong-ers are also free to share their travelogues after disocvering breathtaking site in Hong Kong. Just type in what do you would like to see or explore in the homepage search bar, sit back and enjoy what V’air offers you in HONG KONG!