Water & waste management

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The “Good Tourism” Podcast #2: How to be a plastic-free hotel in 15 minutes

and November 15, 2017

plastic-free hotel

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 […]

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Philippines tourism development & how to avoid more Boracays

July 31, 2017
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Boracay White Beach in day 985286231

Prom­in­ent Filipino writer and eco­nom­ist Dr Bern­ardo M Vil­le­g­as is encour­aged by the pre­lim­in­ary draft of the next Phil­ip­pines tour­ism devel­op­ment plan because of its intent to devel­op low-dens­ity, com­munity-based, and nature-based tour­ism and to pro­mote the use of green tech­no­lo­gies. How­ever, in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Dr Vil­le­g­as urges author­it­ies to look to Spain […]

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Pollution plan cooked up at Kenya’s Lake Naivasha

June 22, 2017

Sunset at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Source: Gopal Vijayaraghavan / Wikimedia

Nice places to live are nice places to vis­it. With Lake Naivasha tour­ism tak­ing a hit due to pol­lu­tion, a social enter­prise has cooked up a plan to clean up the lake and provide cheap meals to loc­al vil­la­gers. Report by the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. Stand­ing on a muddy patch on the shores of Lake […]

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How to make a hotel green & responsible: Get on with it!

June 5, 2017
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How to make a hotel green & responsible: Just do it!

Hos­pit­al­ity industry pro­fes­sion­al John Mor­ris Wil­li­ams shares a little of his long exper­i­ence ini­ti­at­ing and driv­ing com­­mon-sense meas­ures at hotels and in host com­munit­ies. Mr Wil­li­ams makes it clear that he favours real action over expens­ive cer­ti­fic­a­tion, believ­ing that dis­cern­ing sup­ply chain part­ners and guests are cap­able of per­ceiv­ing green-wash­ing and cyn­ic­al CSR. Update: June 2021 Prompted […]

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