The Bangkok Post reports on the initiatives of the Six Senses Resorts and Spas, a Thai based luxury hotel operator with hotels in the Maldives, Thailand and Vietnam, which has started to offer luxurious ‘carbon-cutting’ retreats for visitors.
Daily Archives: July 9, 2007
Tourism chiefs face guilt trip on green issues
Roger Blitz from the Financial Times reports that “The tourism industry has never had it so good but its senior executives are feeling strangely guilty about their success and fearful of a green backlash.”
Posted in Consumers, Marketing, Tourists Leave a comment
National Park Rothbury Visitor Centre
The National Park’s Rothbury Visitor Centre has been awarded a silver award for Green Tourism Business. Read more here.
Posted in Visitor Attractions Leave a comment
Centre for Alternative Technology
The Centre for Alternative Technology, an innovative visitor attraction in Wales, reports that we could reduce carbon emission to zero in 20 years, though this would mean no flying and each person would have personal carbon allowance. Read more here.
Their work has included significant coverage in the press, including The Guardian, The Independent and [...]
Posted in Carbon Off Setting, Visitor Attractions Leave a comment
It is not right, and it is not a right, to fly all the time
Alex Owen writes an interesting article in the New Stateman which argues that whilst air travel has been ‘democratised’ there have been a number of costs. For example, unless you are willing to pay a significant price for your ticket e.g. travel first or business class air travel isn’t a luxury experience anymore. Moving on [...]
Posted in Airlines, Carbon Leave a comment
