Why I chose ethical investment: helping fund innovative companies
Julie King is an ethical investor. After setting up a private pension, she began looking for ways her money would be able to make a positive difference to the world. A financial services employee and keen traveller, she contacted Virtuo Wealth, specialist ethical financial advisers based in Edinburgh, and step-by-step, embarked...
On this day in 2001: fuel tanker runs aground off Galapagos Islands
Yesterday we wrote about the wisdom of tourism in the polar regions. In response, we were pointed to a Telegraph article from 2009, in which the irreproachable Sir David Attenborough suggested tourism was a “necessary evil” for the Galapagos Islands to survive. But an accident 12 years ago today...
Is holidaying in the polar regions a responsible thing to do?
New Zealand’s prime minister is set to travel to Antarctica this week; following the lead of an around 50,000 people who venture to the continent for holidays each year. Some call it ecotourism, but is it really responsible to visit such pristine landscapes for a jolly jaunt? Last year,...
UN emphasises ‘vital role’ of sustainable tourism
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution that recognises sustainable tourism as hugely influential in the battles against poverty and environmental protection. The resolution, titled Promotion of ecotourism for poverty eradication and environment protection, was accepted unanimously by members, meaning the usual protocol of voting for resolutions...
Ethical consumer market grows to £47bn despite recession
The Cooperative report shows that the market for ethical goods and services has remained resilient throughout the economic downturn as a progressive core of retailers and producers continue to factor sustainability into their products and services (e.g. Fairtrade ingredients) and to sell sustainable produce. The annual ethical consumer market...
Sustainable tourism: the only option
The Travel Foundation was set up by the industry for the industry. “The reason we exist is to help the industry understand and reduce the impacts of tourism on the destinations that it so depends upon”, says Sue Hurdle, chief executive of The Travel Foundation, in an interview with...
AITO announces winners of Sustainable Tourism Awards
The Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) has announced the names of three companies that have won accolades at its annual Sustainable Tourism Awards. Held at a private dinner at the Millennium Grosvenor Hotel in Kensington last Tuesday, the group handed out the trio of gongs to tour operators...
Proof that responsible travel really does pay off
Earlier this year, Blue & Green Tomorrow published an in-depth guide to sustainable tourism, and two of the companies we featured have just received prestigious accolades at the Guardian and Observer Travel Awards 2012. Jonny Bealby, founder and managing director of Wild Frontiers, provides reaction to his company’s excellent...
Beautiful luxury cottages in beautifully untouched locations
Blue & Green Tomorrow is delighted to announce a partnership with cottages4you, the largest collection of holiday cottages to rent in the UK, Ireland, France and Italy. Each week, we’ll be profiling one of their luxury cottages (the first of which can be found here), bringing you everything you need...
Sustainable tourism labelled a ‘key trend’ by luxury travel network
One of the world’s leading luxury travel networks has picked out sustainable tourism as a “key trend” at its 24th annual Travel Week. Styled as the luxury travel industry’s answer to the world-renowned Fashion Week, Virtuoso’s event took place from August 11-17, and brought together dozens of high-calibre travel...
Sustainable tourism: a passing fad or way of life?
Far from the new fangled concept that many see it to be, sustainable tourism has been a developing notion since the 1960s and the green movement. With people slowly growing to understand the consequences that their lifestyle inflicts upon the environment, it’s a term that envelopes an industry committed to reducing environmental and...
Striving for sustainability
The Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) brings together over 140 of Britain’s specialist travel companies – and it takes sustainable tourism very seriously. B> caught up with Chris Breen, chairman of AITO’s sustainable tourism committee, who firstly explains how he got involved with the organisation, and more specifically,...
Sustainable tourism: an essential link in the world’s ‘value chain’
According to a report released last week by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), as little as 22% of total tourism revenues land directly in east African communities. The report, titled Towards a Sustainable Tourism Industry in Eastern Africa, recognises that the tourism industry is directly linked with...
The Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2012
Blue & Green Tomorrow is pleased to announce the publication of its latest in-depth report, The Guide to Sustainable Tourism. The new Guide joins the likes of The Rise of Renewable Energy and The Guide to Sustainable Investment in B>’s 2012 report series. It answers the question, “How can I reduce...
The Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2012
I sit and write this introduction on a beautiful sunny day in England ahead of a long weekend in honor of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with the London 2012 Olympics looming, and I’m left wondering: “why leave the UK for a holiday?” But no doubt, come the weekend, the...
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