As the world's most precious resource, water scarcity poses a significant challenge to the sustainability of our planet's ecosystems, economies, and human health.

This article sheds more light on seven sustainable solutions to alleviate water scarcity and its far-reaching consequences.

The shipping and marine tourism industries are significant contributors to climate change and global warming. As as result of the industry’s large environmental impact (pollution and harmful emissions), ship owners and marine tourism operators must minimize their environmental impact in order to operate more sustainably for the good of our planet.

Here are several tips to get started.

Sustainability is essential in all aspects of life, including sea travel. If you want to continue enjoying the many benefits that sailing and cruising have to offer, you need to do your part to protect the oceans and their inhabitants. Here are five ways to become a more sustainable sea traveler.

Boating provides an effective way to connect with nature, have fun with family and friends, exercise, and escape the pressure of your everyday life.

Read on for seven ways to reduce your boat’s carbon footprint and boat sustainably.

Fresh, potable water is an essential resource. The good news is that there are ways to use water filtration systems in your tourism business for both increased sustainability and lower costs.

Marinas can have a significant impact on the environment. These ports may see hundreds of small boats and yachts every day, whether for entertainment purposes or to bring in the day’s catch. Some marinas have taken the initiative to become sustainable for the environment’s sake, but now is the time for all marinas to take steps to go green.

Read more in this week’s blog.

Here in Part Two of the ‘Cruise Line Sustainability’ series, we address each of the challenges identified in Part One to provide a broad, high level overview of current and potential areas of focus to improve sustainability.

The European river cruise sector is booming.

The number of active cruise vessels has more than doubled between 2004 and 2017. The growth in cruise tourism has placed a heavy burden on marine environments. As a result, there has been a general rise in customers demanding more responsible and sustainable tourism. To reduce their environmental impacts and to meet the increasing demand for sustainable cruising options, river cruise companies (like Scylla Cruises) have begun to take action.

Read more to find out what Scylla is doing for sustainability in our interview with Scylla’s very own CEO, Arno Reitsma.

This week, we’re excited to announce Sea Going Green’s partnership with Aquablu, an innovative water filtration system looking to change the way that we access clean drinking water, leaving bottled water behind in the dust.

Aquablu allows for customers to tap into polluted or otherwise non-drinkable water and filter out micro-plastics, chemicals, antibiotics, heavy metals and more. This technology can even be used on board marine vessels such as cruise ships and luxury boats, which by using this product helps lower their CO2 footprint and mitigates the risk of plastic bottles (and caps) ending up overboard!

Read more about Aquablu in our interview with the founder, Marnix, and see for yourself how this could be a great addition to your home, office or boat!

River cruises are becoming increasingly popular, which creates many new opportunities as well as challenges along with it.

In Europe alone, 1.4 million passengers took a river cruise in 2018, a number that’s rising annually. The kind of growth that we’ve seen from cruise tourism has placed a large burden on the marine environment. As a result, we have generally seen a rise in the trend of customers demanding for more responsible and sustainable tourism. To meet the increasing demand for sustainable cruising options, river cruise companies are starting to think about their environmental impact while finding ways on how to reduce it.

In this blog, you’ll find a list of 11 suggested practices that we’ve compiled to help make river cruising more sustainable!

We are excited to announce that we have partnered up with We Are On A Boat ! Imagine an airbnb for sustainable boats..

Read more about this amazing eco-friendly and clean energy boat-sharing initiative and how they are promoting voluntourism/sustainable tourism in this interview with Ally Dragozet (CEO & Founder of Sea Going Green) and Tiago Varandas (Founder of We Are On A Boat).

Photo by @soelyachts

This week on the blog we interview the founders of Sailors for Sustainability!

These 2 sailors are sailing around the world looking for sustainable solutions that are making the world a better place, read on to hear about their journey thus far.