Located in a natural paradise 3 Rivers Eco Lodge in Dominica offers guests a range of accommodation from self catering cottages through to tree top houses. Electricity is generated from solar panels, wind turbines and a micro hydro electricity system! They are Green Globe certified. 3 Rivers Eco Lodge is owned [...]
Daily Archives: October 20, 2007
Eurostar and green travel
From Eurostar’s website:
A Eurostar journey is 10 times less polluting than flying
Eurostar have made a commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by a further 25% per traveller journey by 2012
Click here to read their 10 point plan of clear, measurable actions
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Wind Farms and the Visitor Economy
Foresight is published monthly by VisitBritain and in the July 2006 issue there is an article on wind farms and the visitor economy (you need to scroll to the last article in that month’s issue). A visitor centre at the first commercial wind farm in Cornwall attracted some 60,000 visitors during its first year of [...]
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Tourists and the environment
Consumer demand, in part, is leading operators to push their environmental credentials to the forefront of thier promotional and marketing strategies. Look at Thomson Holiday and Vail Resorts.
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Scenario planning and tourism
VisitScotland’s Scenario Planning team have been looking at the environment and tourism in Scotland. They have published three papers:
Sustainability and growth – What is it all about?
Climate Change and Scottish Tourism.
What if the Oil Runs Out?
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Tourism, transport and the environment
Scottish Natural Heritage have published a report ‘Transport Tourism and the Environment in Scotland‘ which examines transport used by tourist and impacts on the environment.
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Tipping Point or Turning Point? Social Marketing & Climate Change
A good research report (Tipping Point or Turning Point? Social Marketing & Climate Change) has been published by Ipsos MORI and it’s free to download.
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