Tourism
The latest news on green travel and sustainable tourism, from eco hotels and restaurants strategies, to green technologies and environmental travel policies and regulations.
25 UK beaches could fail under revised EU Bathing Water Directive
Twenty-five beaches in England may fail to meet tough new EU standards for bathing water quality that come into force on Friday.How SME hotels can make big energy efficiency savings fast
Hospitality sector pathfinder shows how much can be saved to benefit the bottom line and cut carbon, says Mark Sait, ceo of SaveMoneyCutCarbon.Green team: six-bed Snowdonia guesthouse scoops top green hotelier award
A small, six bedroom guesthouse nestled in the foothills of Snowdonia has beaten the odds to win a prestigious award taken last year by the luxury Savoy Hotel.Water scarcity: does a super canal from Scotland to London hold the answer?
A waterway could offer a sustainable way of meeting water demand as well as providing employment, flood relief and boosting tourismThe sharing economy: is Airbnb’s legal trouble a sign of things to come for resource-efficient businesses?
The room-sharing company’s fight with the New York attorney general is likely just one of many legal battles to come for the growing sharing economy.UK could be set for washout summers for next decade, Met Office meeting concludes
As the prospect of another gloomy Glastonbury and wet Wimbledon looms, leading climate scientists have warned that the UK could be set for a further five to 10 years of washout summers.Accor mulls veggie meals and binning buffets to cut water footprint
The world’s largest hotel group, Accor, is looking to cut its massive water footprint by getting its corporate customers to eat more vegetarian meals and by reducing the number of buffets at its business conventions.Heavy rains affecting water quality at UK beaches
Heavy recent rains are flushing raw sewage into coastal waters, ruining the water quality at popular beaches around the UK just as the bathing season begins, according to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).Accor commits to first carbon target as hotel group sets out growth plan
The world’s biggest hotel group has committed to its first carbon reduction target, announcing today it will reduce CO2 emissions across its entire operations by 10 per cent by 2015, as it pushes ahead with an ambitious growth plan.Lake District targets visitors with £7m green travel scheme
Visitors to the Lake District are to be targeted in a major new scheme to encourage greener forms of travel in the national park.£250m Center Parcs village will be “exemplary sustainable tourism destination”
A new £250 million Center Parcs village will be built to the “highest energy efficiency and sustainability standards”, the British holiday parks group said.Food main source of water consumption for hotel chain
In the first study to shine a light on the entire environmental footprint of an international hotel chain, a leading hotelier has discovered that its food supply chain, not its sites, account for more than three quarters of its water footprint.Warmer temperatures could cost business £15bn in staff absenteeism by 2080
Major new research into the risks of climate change to the UK predicts that, without action, by the second half of this century warmer temperatures in the summer could cost businesses £15 billion in staff absenteeism a year.Accor creates open platform to share knowledge on hotel sustainability
A leading global hotelier has created an open access platform to share knowledge about sustainable development across the international hospitality sector.Environmentally sensitive ‘tree house’ project at luxury hotel gets go-ahead
A luxury hotel on the edge of the New Forest has been granted planning permission for a set of ‘tree house suites’ to be located deep in woodland on the hotel’s 130-acre grounds, despite the environmentally sensitive nature of the project.
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