Archive for February, 2010

• Learn About Green Travellers

  Friday, February 26th, 2010

  As always, sound business practices mean backing up decisions with solid research. When looking to green up your business or to marketing the unique environmental initiatives you’ve already taken the same theory holds true. Unfortunately, at this stage with the whole green / eco-tourism thing still being relatively new (at least new to mainstream) it [...]

  
  

• Greening Vancouver Island

  Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

  The fabulous thing about Vancouver Island is the we have an abundance of green, blue, and even white. In other words, we have amazing old growth forests, beautiful lakes, rivers and the ocean, and we even have glaciers and some amazing skiing in the winter. But how do we do for “green” in the environmental [...]

  
  

• Green Tourism Awards 2010

  Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

  The finalists for the 2010 Green Tourism Awards were recently announced. There are some very interesting projects and programs nominated, however, what clearly stood out to me was the lack of nominees from North American, and Canada in particular. Do you think this is because we are behind the times in sustainable practices in tourism? [...]