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the 50 eco-hotels of your dream !
Lets start with their selection in Asia: Maria Thomas, London, and may other editors publish a great selection of eco-hotels on the Times Online at the following address: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/green_travel/article630054.ece Best hand-picked places in Asia by the Times Online are: The Phu Chaisai Mountain Resort & Spa, Chiang Rai in Thailand. Wakatobi Dive Resort in Indonesia …
Some more green hotels for Novotel (Accor Group)
An executive at Novotel , Evan Lewis – Vice President Communications for Accor Asia Pacific, annouced announced today that 32 hotels and resorts have achieved the Green Globe Certification in Asia Pacific. A followup from our report from Septeber 2008 available at http://blog.greenty.com/2008/09/more-on-novotel-and-green-globe.html The most recent hotels to have joined the program include Novotel Hong …
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The best green destinations of this world
Interesting survey from two different organizations: According to Grist and Treehugger, the top green cities in the world would be: According to Grist:1. Reykjavik, Iceland2. Portland, Oregon, U.S.3. Curitiba, Brazil4. Malmö, Sweden5. Vancouver, Canada6. Copenhagen, Denmark7. London, England8. San Francisco, California, U.S.9. Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador10. Sydney, Australia11. Barcelona, Spain12. Bogotá, Colombia13. Bangkok, Thailand14. Kampala, …
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travel green in France with this guide …
Dear readers, for those of you planning a trip to France, we highly recommend that book from Dorian Yates; much more than a travel book, the guide includes listings of health food stores and farmers’ markets, public transit information, alternative health care facilities, green businesses, yoga and spiritual centers. Nice way to visit the country …
Some better designed solar panels…
American company SRS Energy has just announced a good news for eco hotels : a major issue raised by hoteliers to install solar panel was their poor outlook.SRS Energy has developed the Solé Power Tile, a roof tile designed to sustainably convert sunlight into electricity without compromising aesthetics. The Solé tiles are suppposed to be …
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Are tourists willing to pay more for green travel?
George Dooley reports at http://www.travelagentcentral.com/green-travel/travelers-unwilling-pay-more-green-travel-17065 on this critical issue facing our industry. According to him, travellers are becoming more and more aware of green travel (a remarkable increase from 9 percent in July 2007 to 22 percent in July 2009) but it doesnt mean that they are ready to pay more for it: only 9 …
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Greenty.com live
Dear Readers, we have just soft launched the new Green Travel Search Engine http://www.greenty.com/ Cuurently the test version only accounts 20 eco hotels but we have 1000+ eco hotels revieweds that will be live in a couple of weeks from now … Enjoy the tour ! Greenty.com is the first eco-travel search engine & a …
Green Globe moves into Greece and Cyprus
Another geography is being added to the leader of eco travel certification. Green Globe has announced a partnership with Green Wealth, Ltd. to Deliver Green Globe Licensed Products in Greece and Cyprus Markets. There are 9,000 hotels in Greece and Cyprus so that is an interesting move. However we dont know how many potential eco …