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After years of operating one of the most environmentally friendly hotels in Jamaica we this year will be starting another project in the hope that we can reach out to as many small properties as possible and as Read more…Earth Week is here, with Earth Day April 22. Are you doing anything about it personally, such as buying carbon offsets? Selecting "green" lodgings, or taking public transportation rather than renting a car at your destination? Are these "feel good" m
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Please, let us not forget Christchurch, New Zealand. Help is still needed to rebuild and recover from the devastating earthquakes.
As Christchurch, New Zealand has always been a popular travel destination a new travel initiative has been launched by
Travel & Words Spring '11 conference offers opportunities to connect learn and write about sustainable, green and responsible travel and tourism for an early registration fee of $99.
Travel & Words Spring ‘11, recommended by Writer's Digest as a
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While the Tambopata National Reserve was created with an underlying philosophy of sustainable resource use, the park was created with the purpose of wholeheartedly protecting the forests within. Both conservation units protect some of the last un
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Conference connects travel writers with tourism organizations, publishers and sustainability experts to explore new freelance market opportunities.
February 5, 2011 (Portland) - Travel & Words, the premier travel writers' event in the Pacific North
We at the Unset Bay Club & SeaSide Dive Resort http://www.sunsetbayclub.com presents Dominica
One of the smallest of the Eastern Caribbean islands situated between the French countries of Guadeloupe and Martinique, Dominica is other wise known as t
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Sustainable + Green + Responsible Travel and Tourism theme drives
speaker topics throughout the two-day event.
February 16, 2011 (Seattle) - Travel & Words, the highly regarded Pacific Northwest conference that connects travel writers with dest
Read more…GREENVILLE, Maine—(Jan. 27) A new “green” destination for outdoor recreation in Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness region is available to the public today with the official opening of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s (AMC’s) Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins
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Hotels are increasingly embracing green practices as a way to set themselves apart, so it only makes sense to see a portal emerge that aims to help eco-minded consumers find them. GreenHotels, in fact, serves not only as a portal and booking engin
Read more…I just got a press release that says Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality (a consortium of six award-winning eco-lodges, mostly in Costa Rica) is offering a book-a-night, stay-a-second-night-free deal. I've stayed at some of these lodges, and they're prett
Read more…Salt Lake County announced a project that will set the standard for sustainable meetings and
conventions: the installation of the nation’s largest rooftop solar array atop
the Salt Palace Convention in the heart of downtown.
The 600,000 square-foot p
Read more…Tourism and biodiversity
Tourism represents more than 5% of world carbon emissions, perhaps 9% because of transportation, mainly air transportation. But this does not mean that it is incompatible with the preservation and enhancement of biodiversit
Read more…Each year on September 27, 2010, World Tourism Day focuses on a different important theme, and 2010's may be one of the most important yet: tourism and biodiversity.
Santarem (f 1661) lies halfway between Manaus and Belem at the confluence of the blue Tapajos (and Arapiuns) river with the Amazon. It is best known for its beautiful sandy beaches, which appear during the "Amazonia Summer". It postcard beach (and vi
Read more…Despite the fact that our biodiversity is in deep trouble and the tourism industry in Africa is looking towards a sustainable future, hunting in Africa (and other parts of the world) is still allowed. Should we stop hunting or not? For the full artic
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