Daily Archives: November 16, 2007

Responsible Tourism Awards the New Forest

Still on a New Forest theme here is a short video on the New Forest - one of the winners.

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Green Leaf Tourism Scheme

The Green Leaf Tourism Scheme is being pilotted in the New Forest (Hampshire, UK) and the scheme focuses on supporting and promoting:
 

Car free tourism
New Forest marque produce
Energy waste and recycling initiatives
Landscape conservation
Forest Friends visitor stewardship
Community tourism

To find out more on the Green Leaf Tourism Scheme click here.

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Carbon neutral travel

The BBC have just written an interesting article on the environmental impact, from a CO2 perspective, of tourism and the expect growth of tourism. There are some staggering statistics, for example, international tourist arrivals are expected to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020 (from Jan - to Sept 2007 the figure is 610 million [...]

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