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Sustainable tourism - help the locals
If our travel dollars are to help the locals, we should select locally owned hotels, buy locally produced foods, hire resident guides, explore local transportation options etc
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Americans are willing to pay for eco-friendly travel
Acc to Travel Industry Association of America (Jan 2006 data), an estimated 38% of US travelers would be willing to pay more to use travel companies that strive to protect and preserve the environment Of those travelers, 61% said they would pay 5 to 10% more - Read More
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Sustainable Tourism is a Fast Growing Area
Sustainable tourism is an area we are looking at. Take-up of the carbon offsetting option on our site has increased to 17% of customers booking flights and dynamic packages. At the end of 2006 it was just 10% - John Bevan, UK MD of Lastminute.com (Mar 2008) - Read More
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