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The Travel Foundation - Travelife
It's important to establish a system that will allow you to monitor water and energy consumption. It will help to lower the environmental impact of your property, as well as reduce your water and energy bills. Since you can only manage what you measure, setting up a monitoring system for water and energy consumption is vital. You will need to gather information on your consumption each month.
The Travel Foundation - Travelife
Every day people are travelling to destinations across the world. Keeping places authentic and beautiful and making sure that local communities aren’t neglected is a big challenge, but it’s the only way we can ensure tourism is more sustainable in the future. So, together with the Travel Foundation, we’ve developed this useful guide to help accommodation providers find ways to operate in a more environmentally and socially sustainable way. It’s about respecting people and places. So take a few minutes and browse through this helpful section and take your first step to becoming more sustainable.Climate change & carbon solutions
The Nudge blog sat down (electronically) with John Kenny, Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning in Draftfcb’s Chicago office, to explore whether behavioral economics is just a fad in marketing or a legitimate tool to help the industry perform better. Starting with the Institute of Decision Making , Draftfcb has been one of the leaders in thinking about how to incorporate the discipline of behavioral economics with the practice, and business, of modern advertising and marketing. Recently, Kenny has put together a set of video lessons that serve as a guide to using behavioral economics in their work.
Nudge blog · Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Ecumenical Coalition for Tourism - ECOT
Sustainable Tourism and CBT ‘ Sustainable tourism’ has become part of the tourism discourse. However, the yardstick for assessing genuine sustainable tourism is whether it results in sustainable development, and enhances the habitat of local communities.
Tourism Concern
On 7th January 2012, the British newspaper, The Observer, exposed the scandal of semi-nude Jarawa women being forced to dance for tourists in exchange for food.The Awards were handed out in a prestigious ceremony at the World Travel Market World Responsible Tourism Day on Wednesday 9th November 2011. 31 finalists were Awarded winner and highly commended status in 13 different categories in front of a packed audience of their peers, senior tourism industry professionals, destination managers and the media. After an opening ceremony with speeches by Fiona Jeffery, Chairwoman of the World Travel Market, and Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, the awards were kicked off by Justin Francis, Managing Director of responsibletravel.com and Amanda Wills, Managing Director of Virgin Holidays who handed out the Awards after a special message from Sir Richard Branson! Read Amanda Wills' speech .
Responsible Tourism Awards organised by responsibletravel.com
T ourism can take many forms across the world, but everyone involved in this industry (business, destinations and visitors) has a responsibility to ensure that tourism is a force for good. A force that sustains jobs, conserves cultural and natural heritage and provides fabulous experiences. The Responsible Tourism Partnership works to help businesses and communities around the world to maximise their potential for responsible tourism through a range of activities and initiatives.
The Responsible Tourism Partnership
WTM World Responsible Tourism Day - WTM World Responsible Tourism Day
Each year WTM WRTD search to identify individuals or groups who devote their energies and ambitions to making a difference in responsible tourism – whether it is poverty reduction, conservation, bio-diversity, sustainability, environmental or any other aspect of World Travel Market’s World Responsible Tourism Day. Read the 2011 edition