Coral Catch is an NGO providing nine-week scholarships to Indonesian women who are inspired to participate in ocean conservation through education, empowerment, and environmental stewardship initiatives. Their mission is founded in reef restoration to catalyze positive change within communities while fostering a sustainable future for generations to come.

Read on to learn more about their work and how it is creating unique opportunities for conservation. 

While the idea of garbage filled oceans is a scary thought, there is hope on the horizon. In this article we will explore how waste impacts our oceans and learn how living a zero waste lifestyle can help us protect our seas! 

Sustainable ocean economies can potentially speed up answers to the world's most pressing problems, including hunger and extreme poverty elimination, employment creation, and climate change mitigation.

Let's explore various ways to achieve a sustainable ocean economy.

Trekking on hiking trails is one of the best ways to enjoy the peaceful sounds of nature and its beauty. Our Earth’s natural ecosystems can provide lots of enjoyment to people, but it’s also important to think about the health of the environment while exploring.

Read on for some important tips that you can use to be eco-conscious on your next hike.

Ecotourism as a form of sustainable tourism goes beyond simply visiting natural places and attractions, it's about traveling sustainably and responsibly and learning from the environment and its biodiversity.

In this blog, we’ll dive into the meaning of Ecotourism as well as its environmental and social benefits with examples of how these practices could be integrated into tourism offerings.

Travel and tourism do take a toll on the environment, but they don’t have to. With a bit of strategy, it’s quite possible to integrate sustainability into the hospitality industry without compromising growth or profitability.

It all begins by rethinking sustainability in your hospitality offerings.

Though tourism is an important personal experience and powerful economic factor, it can come with several costs as well. Unsustainable tourism practices can lead to extreme degradation of an area that has been loved too much, it can drive away diverse wildlife, and destroy habitat within valuable ecosystems.

Fortunately, that doesn’t always have to be the case. Read more in this week’s blog.

When consumers engage with community-based tourism, they support locals in a way that is economically, socially and environmentally regenerative.

This week’s blog will break down three specific benefits of community-based tourism: female empowerment, marine conservation and sustainable wildlife experiences.

From beach pollution to litter being swept off by the wind, there are many ways that plastics end up in the ocean.

Despite the seemingly dire amount of plastic pollution in the oceans, there are many great efforts underway to clean them up. Read on to learn more about some of the innovative solutions being used to clean up our waters.

Bead the Change is an initiative that supports local female entrepreneurs in Ghana while promoting projects that are working towards increased social and environmental sustainability. Each color of their bracelets is associated with a specific cause that you can choose to support. With each sale of a traditionally-made glass beaded bracelet, a portion of the proceeds is donated to these projects, which is a win-win for the local economy, livelihoods and our planet!

Keep reading to find out more about Bead the Change’s mission, how they make their bracelets and how they are pushing the sustainability agenda forward with each bead made!

Back in 2018, we wrote about the closing of Maya Beach in Thailand in the wake of environmental degradation caused by the phenomenon of overtourism. This closure signified an on-going trend: that many popular destinations were at capacity for tourism.

Now, 2 years later, we’ve had the chance to interview with Manuel San Martin from the Pura Vida Diving Koh Phi Phi Center to gain insight into the progress that has been made on Koh Phi Phi Leh and how the new sustainable tourism plan will take shape once the bay re-opens “tentatively” in 2021.

Dive in and read more about Maya Bay’s progress towards recovery and what lies ahead for the island.

World Water Day is a time to celebrate the beauty of our marine environment, its biodiversity and all of nature surrounded by water. It's also a time to reflect and give back to the planet. Individuals and corporations are contributing to climate change and pollution every day, whether it's through car emissions, factory waste or fossil fuels. Plastic pollution is something that's also harming the environment — specifically, our oceans.

In celebration of World Water Day, this blog will reflect and demystify the 3 main causes of ocean plastic pollution and provide solutions for how we can cut down our plastic footprint.

The 17 United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2015, highlight 169 targets that aim to push forward the current standards of international development. The SDGs focus around many topics including targets for protecting the planet, fighting inequality and combatting the effects of climate change while involving all relevant stakeholders along the implementation process.

The question is: how can these goals be applied to sustainable tourism?

When you think of Florida, what comes to your mind?

Do you imagine white sandy beaches and clear green-blue water with dolphins and manatees glittering the coastline? Most of the time this is what locals and tourists can expect, but unfortunately a rare but recurring phenomenon called “Red Tide” has been leaving beaches and surrounding sea life devastated.

If you’ve been following Sea Going Green’s social media lately, you’ve probably seen some coverage from the beach cleanup we planned on New Years Eve at Clearwater Beach. While most of our focus on the cleanup had to do with raising awareness on the effects of plastic pollution, we couldn’t help but notice that the abundance of “Red Tide” was just as much of a concern for locals and attendees as pollution. Therefore, I’d like to shed some light on this issue as well as what can be done in the future to limit its effects on marine life and the tourism industry.

Sea Going Green goes to Brussels!

This week’s blog provides insight on efforts by the EU to move towards sustainability in the tourism sector. Sea Going Green is happy to note positive steps are being taken in the right direction by the EU and its partners with plenty of room to grow!

Sea Going Green is excited to officially announce its partnership with the Oceanic Global Foundation! As part of our collaboration, we are proud to be ambassadors of their eco-certified sticker system, which we will be using to reward our partners and clients in the tourism and hospitality industries on their sustainable efforts.

Our collaborative new guide will focus on making marine and coastal hotspots more sustainable. The idea for our guide and new sticker system is to incentivize formative change within the tourism industry by providing solutions to environmental challenges. These include plastic pollution, socio-cultural integration, marine conservation, limiting carbon footprints in addition to many more.

Look out for The Oceanic Standard: Coastal Tourism Edition, which will be going live in the next few weeks! In the meantime, check out our interview with Oceanic Global’s founder, Lea d’Auriol.

This week on the blog we have one of our environmental consultants Molly Manwill writing about her experience setting up a Lang Tengah Turtle Watch project where hotel guests can sponsor a turtle nest! Read more to find out how conservation and tourism can go hand in hand!

This week we met with Straw by Straw , another partner helping us to #GoGreenForTheBigBlue. Every day we use hundreds of millions straws worldwide. See how this company provides a sustainable alternative. 

We are excited to announce that we have partnered up with Conservation Guide!

Read more about the amazing initiative of Conservation Guide and how they are growing an environmental community, connecting volunteers with conservation projects around the world!