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At home in the United States, Kerrie Springer takes pride in being environmentally conscious. So when she booked a week’s getaway at the Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort in Aruba, she choose the “green stay” option, agreeing to reuse her sheets and towels rather than have them changed each day. “You don’t do that at home, […]
Read More From smarter energy to less plastic, Caribbean resorts go green
Siem Reap, Cambodia is an ever-growing travel destination. After years of genocide followed by 20 years of instability and civil war, the country has stabilized and has become a darling of the ASEAN region, with a fast-growing economy, better infrastructure, and an overall improvement in the human development index and quality of life. The tourism economy […]
Read More Leveraging your travel budget: A socially-responsible Siem Reap itinerary
A conservation-led ecotourism project in the remote Mergui archipelago aims to show that habitat protection and small-scale sensitive tourism is the way forward for the islands off the coast of Myanmar and Thailand. Words and pictures by Keith Lyons. The Wa Ale Island Resort, set to open later this year (2018), is located on a […]
Read More New conservation-led ecotourism project showcases sustainability in the Mergui
The UK Aid-funded Business Innovation Facility (BIF) project has released a high-quality video about inclusive tourism in Myanmar. The project has been working with Myanmar’s private sector to introduce and encourage take-up of the concept of inclusive tourism. For the past four years long time Asia Pacific sustainable tourism advocate, Steve Noakes, has been senior […]
Read More UK Aid encourages inclusive tourism in Myanmar
China announced on Sunday plans to build and upgrade 64,000 public toilets between 2018 to 2020 as part of its “toilet revolution” aimed at boosting tourism and lifting the sector’s contribution to economic growth. China has been keen to develop and expand services industries to move away from debt-fueled and investment-driven growth, while offseting the […]
Read More China pledges another three years of ‘toilet revolution’ to boost tourism
As co-founder of the not-for-profit Refill NOT Landfill in Cambodia, Christian de Boer claims a hotel can obliterate its reliance on plastic water bottles in about 15 minutes. All it takes is willpower, a signature, and a willingness to absorb or pass on about a dollar a day per guest. With more than a decade’s worth […]
Read More The “Good Tourism” Podcast #2: How to be a plastic-free hotel in 15 minutes