Carbon & Water

March 5, 2020August 10, 2020

Offsetting and the aviation industry are being challenged

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

I have explained why carbon offsetting is part of the problem, it is not part of the solution. Most carbon offsets do not deliver for the environment, but they do ... Read more

August 5, 2019October 8, 2019

Tourism needs new stories

Carbon & Water, Social Economy

Across Europe, the beginning of August signifies the beginning of the long summer holiday. Children are all off school for several weeks. Parliaments shut for a while. Stuck for anything ... Read more

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

Plastic: Going Beyond Straws

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The problem is not plastic, the problem is waste plastic. Attenborough’s Blue Planet exposure of plastic waste in our oceans has raised awareness of the issue, and there has been ... Read more

May 7, 2019May 16, 2019

The week when everything changed

Carbon & Water

I wanted to write about May Day. I wanted to write about working less and remaking our connection to the earth. I really didn’t want to write about climate change. ... Read more

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018

Decarbonisation and the Travel and Tourism Industry

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

In 2018 there has been very little discussion in the Responsible Tourism programme across WTM’s portfolio of trade shows in Cape Town, Dubai, London, Sao Paulo about the decarbonisation of ... Read more

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

10th Climate Week NYC confirms New York as capital city of a responsible world

Carbon & Water, Destinations

Climate week NYC is the largest climate event in the world, New York City is its home, and this year’s event on 24 to 30 September is the 10th Anniversary. ... Read more

August 1, 2018August 10, 2018

Would you go on holiday in a minefield?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

So this is how it begins. I was three years old in the UK’s last long hot summer. Too young to remember it directly, instead the parched earth photographs define ... Read more

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018

TUI leads the way in reporting progress on sustainability

Carbon & Water, Certification, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

The TUI Group operates in 180 destinations, employs 67,000 people in more than 100 countries and provides holiday services to around 20m people. In size, they are world leaders. With ... Read more

July 4, 2018July 5, 2018

In the future, tourism should look more like this Climate Positive Swedish burger

Carbon & Water, Food Tourism, Responsible Tourism

A couple of weeks ago the Swedish burger chain MAX Burgers announced that all its burgers are now climate positive. From June 14, 2018, any meal eaten at any one ... Read more

May 22, 2018

With funding for app secured, Refill my bottle now ready for international expansion

Carbon & Water

Like most of the best ideas, the Refill my Bottle initiative is incredibly simple. So simple that you’ve probably guessed most of what it is about from the title. Started ... Read more

April 24, 2018April 30, 2018

How Tourism can rapidly eliminate single use plastics – Earth Day inspiration from around the world

Carbon & Water, Development, RT Marketing

For a somewhat obsessive follower of tourism industry news like me, the spike in press releases that mark the annual Earth Day celebrations provide a quick reference point to the ... Read more

April 10, 2018April 25, 2018

Is Day Zero becoming the new normal, and not just in Cape Town?

Carbon & Water, Destinations, Development

This month, Cape Town may or may not reach Day Zero, signifying the point at which the city runs out of water. According to an April 9th article on South ... Read more

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

How to engage tourists in sustainable tourism (Part 2): redesign the loyalty scheme

Carbon & Water, Development, Hospitality, RT Marketing, Social Economy

Last week, I spent a night in a hotel in Brussels that has taken a circular economy approach to redesigning the way its loyalty scheme works. Following on from my ... Read more

February 13, 2018

To deal with the climate costs of flying, we need to talk about growth and carbon offsetting

Carbon & Water

Last week Harold Goodwin’s blog laid out his reasons why the aviation industry’s approach to addressing its ongoing growth in emissions is inadequate. This week, I want to look at ... Read more

February 6, 2018

Aviation: Business as usual? Is that acceptable?

Carbon & Water

Globally aviation emits around 2% of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, bring its total emissions to around 5% of the global total; if aviation were a country it world rank ... Read more

January 23, 2018January 31, 2018

What is the biggest threat to our global environment?

Carbon & Water

It is a kind of pollution. There are of course several contenders. Carbon emissions and consequent global warming, soil degradation, overpopulation, biodiversity and plastics. It is not easy to decide ... Read more

January 12, 2018February 5, 2018

Five predictions for responsible tourism in 2018… and one I hope won’t happen

Carbon & Water, Development, Human Rights, Overtourism

In my last blog of 2017, I looked back at some of my personal responsible tourism highlights of that year. I’ve been on holiday for most of the time since ... Read more

December 5, 2017December 5, 2017

How to redesign tourism to end #pointlessplastics

Carbon & Water

A few days ago, a new hashtag started appearing on Twitter. Created by the Good Awards, #pointlessplastics is encouraging people to tweet images of the unnecessary use of plastics (one ... Read more

November 28, 2017

We can deal with climate change, if we all take our share of responsibility

Carbon & Water

At WTM London this month the least well-attended session of the Responsible Tourism programme was the one addressing climate change. We chose a panel of speakers from industry with experience ... Read more

October 17, 2017October 20, 2017

On the Responsible Tourism Agenda at WTM London

Carbon & Water, Certification, Disability, Human Rights

World Responsible Tourism Day is on Wednesday this year and our main focus is on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Tanya Beckett will be interviewing tourism leaders from UNWTO, TUI ... Read more

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017

Electrical Flight is not the panacea for sustainable tourism

Carbon & Water

Alongside the stories of Ryanair and Monarch’s woes in the last few weeks have been excited posts on the potential of electric flight, following Easyjet’s announcement that it hopes to ... Read more

September 13, 2017October 4, 2017

After Irma: lessons from nature for tourism and a resilient future

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The images from the impact of Hurricane Irma on Caribbean islands such as Barbuda are shocking. These are places whose beaches and coastlines epitomise what many of us imagine when ... Read more

August 1, 2017October 4, 2017

How can we truly measure tourism’s impact?

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

When people are looking to assert how important tourism is as an industry, they are likely to cite the proportion of global Gross Domestic Product that it is responsible for. ... Read more

July 19, 2017October 4, 2017

Could the world’s hotels run on renewable energy?

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism

Last week a significant climate change milestone was passed. On July 10th, the Climate Group’s RE100 (the RE standing for renewable energy) announced that the 100th multinational had signed up ... Read more

July 4, 2017September 18, 2017

Why tourism finds it hard to talk about climate change

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Despite the rain pouring down outside my window right now and the fact I am wearing a jumper in late June, I can’t actually see climate change. I can go ... Read more

June 13, 2017September 18, 2017

Hotels, the SDGs and transparent reporting

Carbon & Water, Certification, Responsible Tourism, Video

At the heart of Responsible Tourism are commitments to transparency and accountability. Responsible Tourism is about what people do, individually and collectively in businesses, to move towards sustainability. It is ... Read more

June 6, 2017September 18, 2017

Pandora’s Paradox: social media, tourism and FOMO

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing, Social Media

Last week, a village in Switzerland got loads of press coverage for banning tourists from taking photos of its scenery and sharing them on social media. According to the local ... Read more

May 31, 2017September 18, 2017

Certification: what comes next?

Carbon & Water, Certification, Responsible Tourism

The purpose of consumer facing certification is presumably to assure the guest or client that the hotel they are planning to stay in, or the operator they plan to travel ... Read more

May 22, 2017September 18, 2017

Bringing Biodiversity back home – lessons from the graveyard

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism

Today is the UN’s International Day for Biodiversity. This year being the UN’s International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, the theme is ‘Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism’. Last Sunday, I ... Read more

April 25, 2017September 18, 2017

New European student travel scheme offers a vision of tourism’s future

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

If I was asked to sum up the challenge facing tourism in one sentence, I would say something like the following: Can the travel industry of the future be environmentally ... Read more

April 11, 2017September 18, 2017

If you’re looking after the environment, you’re looking after your guests. Tell them.

Carbon & Water, Development, Human Rights, Responsible Tourism

Written above a doorway at London’s Horniman Museum is an Einstein quote that reads: ‘The environment is everything except myself.’ When I saw it last week it reminded me of ... Read more

March 28, 2017September 18, 2017

Tourism will be the future’s most important industry. We aren’t ready.

Carbon & Water, Overtourism, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing, Social Economy

Last weekend I paid for my shopping at a self-service till. I swiped my credit card across the automatic turnstile on the Underground. I streamed a movie from my Netflix ... Read more

March 21, 2017September 18, 2017

Seasonality, Cruises and Overtourism: Coping with Success

Carbon & Water, Development, Overtourism, Responsible Tourism

How does a small archipelago cope with becoming Britain’s most successful cruise destination? In 2011 there were 36,000 cruise passengers, last year there were close to 100,000, projected to hit ... Read more

March 8, 2017September 18, 2017

Does tourism really contribute to sustainable development?

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy, Video

The Resolution of the 70th United Nations General Assembly to designate 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development has shone the spotlight on tourism. Tourism will either ... Read more

February 7, 2017September 18, 2017

Why take Responsibility for Tourism?

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, Video

The simple answer of course is that we should, because tourism is what we make it. We can make tourism better, we can use tourism to make better places to ... Read more

January 24, 2017September 18, 2017

Creating shared value for local communities – the Kerala Experience

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

In 2008 when the Second International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations was held in Kerala there was overt and mounting hostility to the tourism industry in some of the ... Read more

January 4, 2017September 18, 2017

A New Year, anti-globalisation and tourism

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

2016 brought the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump to be the next President of the USA, the full impact of these momentous changes in the government agendas ... Read more

December 13, 2016September 18, 2017

Cape Town hotel’s bucket brigade recycles water in the CBD

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Capetonians in the CBD may have noticed men and women watering plants on traffic islands with buckets. They are the staff members of the Townhouse Hotel on the corner of ... Read more

November 8, 2016September 18, 2017

Ten years of promoting responsible tourism at WTM

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

Today World Travel Market celebrates the 10th anniversary of World Responsible Tourism Day with a programme that assesses the past, present and future of efforts to make the industry more ... Read more

October 18, 2016September 18, 2017

Last Chance Travel: What if the only truly sustainable form of tourism is less of it?

Carbon & Water, Development, Overtourism, Responsible Tourism

Issues around Venice and the problems of what is fast becoming known as ‘overtourism‘ are being talked about a great deal these days. What I was unaware of until reading ... Read more

October 4, 2016September 18, 2017

Google Cardboard’s VR headset will change tourism forever. But will virtual reality make the industry more sustainable?

Carbon & Water, Disability, Responsible Tourism

In the last few days the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has launched in the UK, bringing virtual reality to the headlines once again; although at £549, it still is ... Read more

September 27, 2016September 18, 2017

A new challenge “overtourism”

Carbon & Water, Overtourism, Responsible Tourism

A new challenge and a new word: “overtourism.” First used on twitter as #overtourism back in August 2012 it’s likely to become commonplace over the next few years. Its meaning ... Read more

August 16, 2016September 18, 2017

World’s Biggest Responsible Tourism Event

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Every year at WTM London we have about 2,000 participants across the various Responsible Tourism events, it is a big success but we want to reach still more people and ... Read more

August 12, 2016September 18, 2017

WRTD Spotlight on LooLa Adventure Resort

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

1. What inspired you to create your business? After finishing my Masters degree in mathematics in Holland in 1988, I went backpacking for a year in South East Asia. There ... Read more

August 9, 2016September 18, 2017

Why every tourism company should sign up to the World Community Grid

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

For many of us in the northern hemisphere, August is a month when our computers finally lie idle, emails get bounced back with out of office replies, and we spend ... Read more

August 9, 2016September 18, 2017

WRTD Spotlight on Naam Group

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

1. What inspired you to create your business? This business was contrived by its founder and Chairman Dr Ravi Ponniah who feels that Langkawi – although an island – is ... Read more

August 2, 2016September 18, 2017

The Olympics and Tourism

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The 2016 Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday 6 August, they were in London in 2012 and they will be in Tokyo in 2020. For 2024 there were originally ... Read more

July 26, 2016September 18, 2017

In defence of the really wild and raucous holiday

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

“Campaigners seek to reintroduce Eurasian lynx into parts of Britain” ran a headline in the Guardian early this week. Amidst this season’s swelter of Brexit, terror and Trump, a story ... Read more

July 8, 2016September 18, 2017

WRTD Spotlight on Hopineo

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

1. What inspired you to create your business? We both are entrepreneurs. We both have been raised with an inspiration to do our part to build a better world, little ... Read more

June 28, 2016September 18, 2017

What is tourism’s role after Brexit?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

I had planned to write about something else today. I had planned to write about Jordan, a country I have recently visited, a country with one of the richest cultures ... Read more

June 21, 2016September 18, 2017

Is Climate Change Currently a Benefit to Some Countries and Businesses?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

There are winners and losers but more losers than winners. Back in 2014 Iceland’s Prime Minister said that climate change would be good for Iceland, melted ice caps would, he ... Read more

April 5, 2016September 18, 2017

Minu Pauline and the Public Fridge of Kochi

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Recently Minu Pauline, who runs a popular local restaurant called Pappadavada in the Keralan city of Kochi, had a brilliantly simple idea. She wanted to do something to help ... Read more

March 15, 2016September 18, 2017

Sustainability and Fairy Tales – this is more serious than greenwashing

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

I have been reminded of the feel good 1969 tv musical Silver Skates – it popularised the story, first published in 1865 by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, about the ... Read more

March 8, 2016September 18, 2017

The woman who taught me the most about tourism – a story for International women’s day

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, Women in Travel

Today, March 8th, is international Women’s Day. Almost eight years ago to the day I met the woman who did more to change the way I thought about tourism than ... Read more

February 2, 2016September 18, 2017

“Business as Usual” is going to get a lot more difficult for tourism – our world is hotting up

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Tourism is by its very nature a difficult business to be in. Accommodation and transport providers, tour operators and guides are all more dependent for their business and their livelihoods ... Read more

January 19, 2016September 18, 2017

Responsibility and Disintermediation

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Two big and difficult words – what are the implications of disintermediation for responsible tourism? ABTA, the British travel trade association, endorses responsibility in two areas. One of the key ... Read more

January 12, 2016September 18, 2017

Travel Trends for 2016: this year it’s all about ‘authentic’ and ‘experiential’

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

I have spent the last two hours reading every article on ‘Travel Trends for 2016’ in a fruitless search for signs that responsible tourism is about to hit the big ... Read more

January 4, 2016September 18, 2017

Business as Usual and the need for Resilience

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The last couple of months have seen dramatic weather events in all parts of the globe. Bush fires in Australia, flooding in India, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, ... Read more

December 8, 2015September 18, 2017

A great man died ten days ago

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

I do not subscribe to the “great men or women” theory of history, but some people see the world differently, understand it differently ahead of the crowd. Generally, they are ... Read more

December 1, 2015September 18, 2017

Can we save the climate for the price of a croissant?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

This morning I asked my browser a simple question: “What costs $11?” I did this because a new study has just been released that claims that “the damaging effects of ... Read more

November 17, 2015September 18, 2017

The biggest problem with ecotaxes is… they are called taxes

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism

The Maldives began charging a so called ‘Green Tax’ at US$6 per tourist bed from the November 1. This followed on the heels of an announcement in September that the ... Read more

November 11, 2015September 18, 2017

Clarity and imagination required to reduce the tourism sector’s dependency on fossil fuels

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The Sackur panel interview last week at World Travel Market faced up to the challenge confronting us as a species. Derek Hanekon, the South African Minister of Tourism, argued that ... Read more

November 2, 2015September 18, 2017

Why are so few in the Travel Industry planning a response to climate change?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

“Travellers and the tourism industry are at odds over what sustainability means, whose responsibility it is and how green they really are,” according to the World Travel Market 2015 Industry ... Read more

October 13, 2015May 2, 2022

Announcing the WTM Responsible Tourism programme: expect some lively debate

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Responsible Tourism is about businesses, destination managers and travellers taking responsibility for the impacts of tourism, minimising the negative ones and maximising the positive. This year’s Responsible Tourism programme at ... Read more

September 22, 2015April 29, 2022

US snowsports sector shows tourism industry leadership on climate action

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Earlier this month, representatives of all sectors of the US snowsports industry sent a letter to the White House – calling for strong climate action in Paris. The Protect Our ... Read more

September 3, 2015September 18, 2017

Innovator Spotlight: making airport hotels sustainable at Hotel Verde

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

Earlier this year, the South African Hotel Verde became the first hotel in the world to achieve double LEED platinum status. Far from being a remote ecolodge, however, Hotel Verde ... Read more

September 1, 2015September 18, 2017

Climate Change – the issue is hotting up

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

2015 already looks set to be the hottest year on record. It means the three warmest years since records began in 1880 – 2015, 2014 and 2010 – will all ... Read more

August 25, 2015September 18, 2017

Blue Planet Tourism – time for some fresh water thinking

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

That tourism uses a lot of water is hardly news. Daily fresh towels. Infinity swimming pools. Golf courses surrounded by desert. The endless irrigation of hotel grounds to keep them ... Read more

August 12, 2015September 18, 2017

The billion tourist question. Overshoot or Opportunity?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

This Thursday, August 13th, is Global Overshoot Day, which marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in ... Read more

July 28, 2015September 18, 2017

How can cities meet the needs of locals and tourists?

Carbon & Water, Development, Responsible Tourism

Over the last few weeks there have been several stories in the press (including two on this blog) about issues to do with overcrowding at destinations and the hostility brewing ... Read more

July 15, 2015September 18, 2017

Innovator Spotlight: Janine Duffy of Echidna Walkabout

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

On 5 November 2014, Australian wildlife tour company Echidna Walkabout won Gold for Best for Wildlife Conservation in the World Responsible Tourism Awards at the World Travel Market in London. Jeremy ... Read more

July 13, 2015September 18, 2017

What happens when tourism reaches the limits to its growth?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

If you walk round Muswell Hill, the part of North London where I have lived for nearly 20 years, you’ll occasionally see a man lying on the pavement, fine paintbrush ... Read more

June 18, 2015September 18, 2017

Why is tourism industry so quiet about climate change?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Last week 80 major British firms sent a letter to the prime minster calling for the UK to be at the forefront of actions to address climate change. Published in ... Read more

June 17, 2015September 18, 2017

Why is tourism industry so quiet about climate change?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Where is tourism industry’s voice when it comes to the business response to climate change? Is it positioning itself to lead, follow… or be dragged?

June 1, 2015April 21, 2022

Five steps to a successful towel and linen reuse scheme

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Following several recent news stories about hotel approaches to towel and linen sustainability, here is a simple guide to getting it right. 1: USE THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MATERIALS ... Read more

June 1, 2015September 18, 2017

Five steps to a successful towel and linen reuse scheme

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Following several recent news stories about hotel approaches to towel and linen sustainability, here is a simple guide to getting it right.

May 11, 2015September 18, 2017

Responsible Tourism in Arabia

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

There is a great deal more going on in Arabia than most people assume. The United Arab Emirates is a hard environment for man to survive in, as is much ... Read more

May 5, 2015September 18, 2017

How tourism can help the people of Nepal today

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

It’s possible to help the people in Nepal without leaving the comfort of your own home. And be part of one of the most innovative mapping projects in the world ... Read more

May 5, 2015September 18, 2017

How tourism can help the people of Nepal today

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Since the earthquake in Nepal on April 25th, travel companies from across the world have launched fund raising drives to help the country’s people. Intrepid’s non-profit arm the Intrepid Foundation ... Read more

April 28, 2015September 18, 2017

Innovator Spotlight: discover hidden Peru with Amazonas Explorer

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, Responsible Tourism Spotlight

For 30 years Amazonas Explorer has been taking travellers to see the best that Peru has to offer. Their owner Paul Cripps spoke to Jeremy Smith about the challenges of ... Read more

April 20, 2015June 15, 2020

African Responsible Tourism Award winners are ‘reinventing’ travel to continent

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Whether reinventing tours of Cape Town, showing that Shark Tourism can be ethical, or inspiring through writing and photography that reminds how great travel can be, the winners of this ... Read more

April 13, 2015September 18, 2017

New Awards to show how Responsible Tourism matters in Africa

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

As the judging begins for the inaugural African Responsible Tourism Awards, Harold Goodwin reflects on the significance of responsible tourism for the continent

April 13, 2015September 18, 2017

New Awards to show how Responsible Tourism matters in Africa

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

As Garry Wilson, Mainstream Product & Purchasing Director for the TUI Group, argues in the above video, in an interview specially recorded for Cape Town and Africa, Responsible Tourism is ... Read more

April 8, 2015September 18, 2017

How to turn waste management into a tourism attraction

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

So bad has the problem of rubbish and human waste despoiling the world’s tallest mountain become, that starting this month, climbers on Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg ... Read more

April 8, 2015September 18, 2017

How to turn waste management into a tourism attraction

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

It’s time to stop seeing waste as just another environmental problem to be disposed off. We need to see it as a resource to be utlised.

March 24, 2015September 18, 2017

Tourism and water use – time for some fresh thinking

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Tourism needs to change how it approaches its use to water. Setting targets to reduce its use is no longer enough.

March 24, 2015September 18, 2017

Time for tourism to ban use of plastic water bottles

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

San Francisco has become the first city in America to ban the sale of water in plastic bottles. Over the next four years, the ban will phase out the sales of ... Read more

March 24, 2015September 18, 2017

Tourism and water use – time for some fresh thinking

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

I’ve been looking into hotel water sustainability innovations over the last few days, trying to find some stories for a blog to mark World Water Day, which happened last Sunday. ... Read more

March 10, 2015September 18, 2017

Who are the real climate change innovators in tourism?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

When ResponsibleTravel.com announced the call for entries for the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards a few days ago, there was one new category I was particularly pleased to see introduced. ... Read more

March 4, 2015September 18, 2017

Time for tourism to ban use of plastic water bottles

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The industry needs to do more to encourage guests not to use plastics. Some companies, like &Beyond and CGHEarth, have shown it’s possible to be stylish and sustainable. Now the ... Read more

February 13, 2015April 25, 2022

Innovator Spotlight: exploring India’s wilderness with Wild Navigator

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

Wild Navigator is a new company set up to connect responsible travellers to authentic wilderness experiences across the Indian Subcontinent. Jeremy Smith spoke to its founder, Abishek Behl about the ... Read more

February 10, 2015September 18, 2017

Which is more revolutionary – Airbnb or a caravan park?

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

The cover of Time magazine for February 9, 2015 is an article by Joel Stein called ‘Tales From The Sharing Economy’. It looks at how various companies are disrupting entire ... Read more

February 10, 2015September 18, 2017

Which is more revolutionary – Airbnb or a caravan park?

Blog, Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism

As those in tourism wonder how to meet the challenges posed by the popularity of companies like Airbnb, might it be worth also examining the never-ending popularity of camping and ... Read more

January 21, 2015September 18, 2017

Climate Change, Resource Efficiency and the Tourism Sector

Carbon & Water, Certification, Responsible Tourism

The situation in global oil markets appears to deny the relevance of the arguments about peak oil. It is not so simple. There were always two arguments about peak oil ... Read more

January 21, 2015June 15, 2020

Climate Change, Resource Efficiency and the Tourism Sector

Blog, Carbon & Water, Certification, Responsible Tourism

What impact will falling oil prices have on the tourism industry and its efforts to be more carbon efficient? Harold Goodwin explores the science and its ramifications

January 13, 2015September 18, 2017

Beyond the bucket list: My dream destination for 2015

Blog, Carbon & Water, Disability, Responsible Tourism

What would be the perfect place to travel in 2015? Jeremy Smith dreams of his ideal destination, would it would contain, and wonder where it might be found.