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Latest news and insights from various sources relating to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
How to build a purpose-led travel company – Interview with Eliza Raymond, co-founder GOOD Travel
GOOD Travel was founded in 2013 to promote and facilitate travel that has a positive impact, through only working with tourism businesses that are making a positive impact on the community, environment, and economy. Jeremy Smith speaks to its co-founder, Eliza Raymond
Off Season Adventures sponsors a solar-powered water project in Kakoi Village, Tanzania
This project will provide a year-round water source for Kakoi and three other villages, two nearby schools, and a dispensary.
Talking Point: Can we really source sustainable interiors?
With more hotels moving towards sustainable practice, ethical tourism and environmentally friendly sourcing, it is important to maintain a comprehensive approach to environmentalism, says Liam O’Donnell, director of Valdivian Furniture. It can often be tricky to maintain a legitimate sustainable stance when dealing with suppliers and sourcing, creating supply chain complexities and weakening the green […]
Ecotricity launches partnership to help green up UK holidays
Partnership will develop a stock of content and practical advice, using video, blogs and newsletters to showcase best practice and encourage providers of accommodation and attractions to reduce their carbon footprint in every way possible.
Talking Point: Can white weddings go green?
Hotels and hospitality venues hoping to gain a larger slice of the £10 billion UK wedding market should be going “green” – as more and more couples, increasingly aware of environmental challenges impacting the planet, move away from a traditional white wedding day. Wedding consultant Kelly Chandler explains how. Whether hoteliers are in New York, […]
U.S. supports sustainable tourism in Egypt’s Red Sea Governorate
This program is part of the $30 billion that the American people have invested in Egypt through USAID since 1978 to bolster self-reliance, foster stability, and promote economic growth.
The Lovat, Loch Ness: joined up thinking on reducing carbon
This Best Practice Case Study comes from a remote and beautiful part of Scotland where the hoteliers have thought really hard about their carbon emissions and are reducing them in a variety of ways at The Lovat. GH: Can you take us on your hotel or resort’s sustainability journey? When did it begin? Where are […]
UN Climate Change and WTTC highlight role of travel and tourism in attaining a carbon neutral world by 2050
During the first Travel & Tourism event ever held at the annual COP, both organisations addressed the links between Travel & Tourism and climate change and presented a pathway for the sector to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Sustainable Tourism Professionals Gathered at the Global Sustainable Tourism Conference 2018 in Maun, Botswana
Sustainable Tourism Professionals Gathered at the Global Sustainable Tourism Conference 2018 in Maun, Botswana The Global Sustainable Tourism Conference 2018 in Maun, Botswana, which was organized by Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) and the Global Sustainable Tourism Conference (GSTC), brought together 150 delegates from 26 countries, as well as hundreds of viewers joining the live […]
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