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Egypt is an incredibly attractive tourism destination; it all started more than 2000 years ago when Roman travellers visited Egypt to see the ancient pharaonic ruins. Today tourism is Egypt’s most important industry, with 2.2 million jobs – however over 75% of the country’s tourist activity is concentrated on the Red Sea – thus mass …
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Hyatt Regency O’Hare, one of the flaghotel of the group, locatred next to Chicago, USA, has just announced a number of environmentally friendly initiatives, such as – extensive recycling, – water conservation programs, – energy conservation programs. The hotel has just received the WasteWise certification from the Environmental Protection Agency, and is claiming to constantly …
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We highlighted a couple of times already the move to the region for a more responsible tourism. The region is indeed suffering badly from a degradation of its ecosystem, from potential sea level rise, coastal erosion, extreme weather events to an increase in disease. Therefore the region has launched a so-called Caribsave program where tourism …
The annual awards, established in 1989, honor significant natural resource accomplishments in six categories. And the winners are … Marc Albert, Natural Resource Manager, Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (resource sharing with Salem Maritime National Historic Site and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreational Area). Patrick Reed, Superintendent, Mammoth Cave National Park Fred Bunch, Chief …
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The fully revised new edition of Tourism Concern’s Ethical Travel Guide has finally been published. The new guide does list places to visit and to stay in in more than 60 countries . If you’re tired of the usual travel guide book, and want to be more responsible when you travel around, this is the …
A very good news for a more responsible travel – the world’s # 1 Travel Group, Germany-based TUI has just announced a plan to accredit green hotels within a more eco-travel comprenhensive policy: – TUI has identified over 400 hotels in its offering to be audited . For sure ther will be incentive for hotels …
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Dear readers, an other interesting news from Travelmole ; the Chaophya Hotel Bangkok just started an organic food garden. Quite an interesting initiative in such a busy and polluted city. The “Park Organic Veggies” was initiated in 2008 on a vacant land, near the hotel’s Golf Driving Range. Here, vegetables are grown organically, without chemical …
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Dear readers, weknow most of our readers are eco-travel fans from the US, lots of them from california, so here is some interesting piece of information from San Francisco … San Francisco is indeed a city with a reputation for being “green” — you got there Prius taxis, plenty of organic food, etc. so the …
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This year’s Green Travel Summit willbe mentored by CNN’s Olivia Zaleski, sustainable experts David Refkin & Auden Schendler, and EPA’s Harry Lewis. The 2009 forum will be focused on sustainability in business – exploring green travel strategies and their impact on business travel and corporate meetings. I have read some negative feedbaks on the fact …