Another geography is being added to the leader of eco travel certification. Green Globe has announced a partnership with Green Wealth, Ltd. to Deliver Green Globe Licensed Products in Greece and Cyprus Markets. There are 9,000 hotels in Greece and Cyprus so that is an interesting move. However we dont know how many potential eco …
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Egypt, a new place for ecotourism, ecotravel and green hotels?
Egypt is an incredibly attractive tourism destination; it all started more than 2000 years ago when Roman travellers visited Egypt to see the ancient pharaonic ruins. Today tourism is Egypt’s most important industry, with 2.2 million jobs – however over 75% of the country’s tourist activity is concentrated on the Red Sea – thus mass …
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Hyatt catching up with the eco trend ?
Hyatt Regency O’Hare, one of the flaghotel of the group, locatred next to Chicago, USA, has just announced a number of environmentally friendly initiatives, such as – extensive recycling, – water conservation programs, – energy conservation programs. The hotel has just received the WasteWise certification from the Environmental Protection Agency, and is claiming to constantly …
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Caribbean en route for a greener tourism
We highlighted a couple of times already the move to the region for a more responsible tourism. The region is indeed suffering badly from a degradation of its ecosystem, from potential sea level rise, coastal erosion, extreme weather events to an increase in disease. Therefore the region has launched a so-called Caribsave program where tourism …