Green & Eco Tourism Category
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Beach Club Resort Sustainability Project
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
The Beach Club Resort, the newest luxury resort hotel in the Oceanside area, is pleased to invite the local community to join us on Earth Day, April 22 as we raise awareness about the environment by hosting the “Footprints Towards Sustainability Project”. The “Footprints Towards Sustainability Project” goals are to increase awareness with our guests [...]
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Earth Day at Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Everyone is invited to Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa’s first annual Earth Day Extravaganza! This is a community event open to everyone looking to celebrate the Earth, nature and sustainability in a fun, educational and festive setting. Invite your family, friends and neighbours! But before we get into the details… The challenge is on and [...]
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Study – Green is Important to Travelers
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
If you are going to leap, it’s always nice to know you have some safety measures in place, particularly when we are talking a leap in business. As such, it is very helpful to see new research showing that being green is important to travelers. Today I definitely have some interesting new research to present [...]
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Green Tourism at ITB
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
In case you didn’t think experiential travel, green tourism, and eco-tourism were important and rapidly growing components to global tourism ITB, the world’s largest travel trade fair should change your mind. At this year’s convention, sustainable tourism played a large roll, the largest it ever has.
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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 [...]
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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? [...]
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Back to Basics – Easy Green
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
In the Tourism Industry, hotels were certainly one of the first sectors to take environmental initiatives. I’m thinking in particular to the “please leave dirty towels in the tub” movement. This certainly was not a revolutionary idea, but does have significant environmental and cost saving benefits.
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Experiential Travel
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Been there, done that! That sentiment amongst travelers is becoming increasingly common. Of course this is not to say that people don’t want to see the big attractions or the famous places of the world. That certainly still exists, but there is a growing market for people who are looking for more of an “experiential [...]