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7 Reasons Why Your Tourism Business Should Go Green in 2022

With life slowly returning back to business as usual, now is the time to futureproof your business and implement sustainability strategies that will keep your business on track for the long-term.

In this blog, we will explore how businesses can make a positive impact, strengthen their branding, and set an example for other businesses by choosing to operate sustainably.

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Sustainable Living Beau Peters Sustainable Living Beau Peters

How to Shop Like a Local While Traveling

Whether you’re traveling to a tourist destination or going somewhere off the beaten path, shopping like a local has its perks. It’ll engrain you in new and interesting cultures, it’s usually cheaper, and you’ll be helping your destination boost their local economy.

Read more about how you can get the full experience of a specific location and culture by shopping like a local.

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Sustainable Living Natalie Crawford Sustainable Living Natalie Crawford

5 Free Plant-based Apps for a Healthy Lifestyle while Traveling

When traveling, you want to experience everything your destination has to offer, from its culture, art, music to it’s gastronomy. Experiencing local cuisines can sometimes be a challenge for those who follow specific diets, such as plant-based and vegan lifestyles.

Luckily, there are many apps out there that make eating according to your preferences easier.

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Education Pearl Holland Education Pearl Holland

How Sustainable Tourism Contributes to Sustainable Development 

GDP and monetary contributions from tourism can be used to alleviate important issues such as lack of infrastructure, low employment rates or poverty by contributing resources to fostering opportunities for the local communities.

In this week’s blog, I’ll unpack how tourism, when managed sustainably, can contribute to building a society that is engaged with sustainable tourism.

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Sustainable Living Adam White Sustainable Living Adam White

How much water do we actually use?

We live on a planet that is two-thirds water and one-third land. The weather delivers us rain on what feels too regular and turning on the tap delivers us as many gallons of the wet stuff we desire. This begs the question, why are we so bothered about water consumption?

And the answer? There are plenty of reasons to want to save water.

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Education, Sustainable Living Beau Peters Education, Sustainable Living Beau Peters

Ways Tourism can Propel Conservation Science Forward

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.

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Sustainable Living Sophia Holt Sustainable Living Sophia Holt

Why Recycled Plastic Clothing Will Be the Next Big Ethical Fashion Trend

Contrary to popular belief, the fashion industry is one of the biggest polluting forces out there. In fact, the industry produces more carbon emissions than all international air travel and worldwide shipping combined.

Luckily, designers and manufacturers have found a clever way to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry, read more about how they are making clothes out of recycled plastics.

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Education Mary Connors Education Mary Connors

Long Read: How Innovative Design Can Help Save Our Oceans

Designers are rethinking our relationship with waste and developing new solutions to the plastic problem. At the current Waste Age exhibition at the London Design Museum, the spotlight was placed on the negative environmental consequences of our throwaway culture and the harmful impact our waste is having on the oceans.

Read about the exhibit and the future of plastic waste in this week’s blog.

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River Cruises, Yachts Jane Marsh River Cruises, Yachts Jane Marsh

How Marinas and Ports Are Going Green

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.

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