Environment
Destinations
New hospitality vision for Baja California Sur unveiled
Can tourism regenerate a distressed slice of Mexico? Christy Walton (yes, one of those Waltons) bets it can.
Interviews
Tours & activities
Ethical Travel Issues
New ban halts boat tours through sacred Australian natural wonder
The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close. But all that is about to change.
Accommodation
Climate Change
Hotel Verdant achieves renewable energy trifecta with wind, solar, and geothermal
Dominion Properties, developer of two LEED Platinum multifamily buildings in southeastern Wisconsin, has just achieved LEED Gold for its boutique Hotel Verdant that utilizes geothermal, solar and wind technologies—a renewable energy trifecta not found in any other U.S. hotel.
Destinations
Research
Insights Report: Sustainable Travel in the U.S. 2024
The “U.S. Sustainable Travel Market – Focused Insights 2024-2029” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
Sustainability: do actions match words?
Universally, hotels are adopting sustainability practices. It was claimed that the execution of sustainability can lead to increased guest satisfaction, improved company image and even financial gain.
Transitioning to reusable packaging could eliminate 1 trillion single-use bottles and cups
A new report highlights the urgent need for reusable beverage packaging as a solution to the global plastic crisis. The report, produced by ocean advocacy group Oceana, shows that just a 10-percentage point increase in reusable beverage packaging by 2030 could eliminate over 1 trillion single-use plastic bottles and cups.
Hotels embrace growing diversity in their board composition
The percentage of hotel industry board seats held by Black members and women members, respectively, is going up.
Hotels appoint more women and Black directors to their boards
Hotel boards are becoming decidedly more diverse, with growing numbers of seats now held by women and Black members, a 2022 study conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging (AHLA) Foundation found.
Publication
New Sustainable Event Management: A Free Guide to Better Green Meetings
Sustainable events can be satisfying and interesting because they make it worth attending in person because the planner has taken steps to connect participants to a destination in a meaningful way, perhaps through the authentic cuisine, local entertainment or a community service project.
What does the future hold for short-term rentals in European Cities?
A comprehensive review of how short term rentals have evolved in Europe over the past seven years was carried out by Toposophy for HORTEC.
Travel & Tourism Development Index 2021
The 2021 edition of the index highlights the vital need to invest in T&T, the impact of COVID-19 and how sector stakeholders can draw on T&T development strategies to build back better.
About sustainable tourism with Matt Callaghan, easyJet holidays. #GSTC2023 interview series
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About sustainable tourism with Topaz Smith, World Economic Forum. #GSTC2023 interview series
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About sustainable tourism with Pegi Amarteifio, SLH. #GSTC2023 interview series
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Partnership for sustainable tourism - Hartmut Wimmer (Outdooractive)
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The role of tourism associations in shaping sustainable tourism I Christina Russe (ECTAA)
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About sustainable tourism with Arantxa Garcia Lis, TUI Group
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About sustainable tourism with Martyn Griffiths, CLIA. #GSTC2023 interview series
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Sustainable hospitality in practice - Apollonia Karampatsou (Mitsis Hotels Group)
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National and regional strategies for sustainable tourism - Green Destinations Conference 2022
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