CO₂ accounting for hotels without Excel and without €10,000 consulting.

The trigger

Climactra emerged from a market observation in the home region. Hotels in South Tyrol, one of the densest hotel regions in Europe, have been under growing pressure for CO₂ transparency since 2024/25, without the tool spectrum keeping pace. CSRD from 2025 forces large companies into auditable climate data, and indirectly hotels too, via the supply chain. OTAs and tour operators increasingly ask for CO₂ values per overnight stay. Banks ask for ESG data on loan applications. At the same time, the criteria catalogues of the most important certification labels are 60–80 pages of legalistic German, and consulting costs €3,000–€10,000 one-off per year. A software gap addressable in this size range.

Climactra exists because there's a vast gap between "Excel spreadsheet" and "€10,000 consulting", and because sustainability for hotels has gone from optional to obligatory, but no one has given hoteliers the tool for it.

The status quo

Hotels today have three options for their CO₂ accounting, and all three are bad. Option 1: Excel. Twelve months of energy, water, waste and occupancy data in self-built spreadsheets, googling emission factors, applying the GHG Protocol by gut feeling. Result: not certifiable. Option 2: a consultant prepares the data for €3,000–€10,000 per year. The report is dead the moment it's printed. Option 3: do nothing until OTAs visibly penalise or the bank starts asking questions. The actual problem isn't the calculation, it's the translation between three worlds: hotel operating data, regulatory requirements, certification criteria. Climactra performs this translation as software. The external certification itself stays with the accredited auditor — Climactra delivers them the auditable data foundation.

Why hotels specifically

Three reasons. First, market: over 50,000 hotels in DACH. South Tyrol as the home market with ~10,000 accommodation businesses one of the densest hotel regions in Europe per capita. Second, pressure: hotels stand at a regulatory and market double-front — CSRD from above, OTA and guest pressure from below. Third, fit: hotels always have the same data sources (electricity, heating, water, occupancy). That's what makes standardised software possible in the first place. Personal angle: growing up as a South Tyrolean in a region where every other family is somehow connected to tourism. What moves hotels here — occupancy figures, energy costs, certification bureaucracy — is familiar from everyday conversations, not from market studies.

What sets Climactra apart

Generic ESG platforms, food-specific tools and consultant software for audits don't address hospitality as a holistic product. Climactra is designed hotel-specific: the HCMI standard is built in natively, CO₂ per room night and per guest night. The metrics OTAs and tour operators actually ask for. Certification is part of the core function, not a bolt-on to the accounting. Four labels (Nachhaltigkeitslabel ST, Green Key, GreenSign, EU Ecolabel) integrated as auto-check: the system acts as a pilot through the certification process up to the external audit. The accuracy is bookkeeping-grade: emission factors with validFrom versioning, IPCC-compliant biomass treatment, HICP inflation adjustment for spend-based method, scope-2 dual reporting. Measures come with amortisation time and score impact, so climate action lands in the budget plan instead of the moral discourse.

Climactra closes the gap between Excel spreadsheet and the annual consultant data prep. The external audit by the accredited auditor stays — Climactra just makes it significantly cheaper.