"Green Travel" Blogs & Blog Posts

How to be an ethical traveller is simple and your ethical choices will make a difference to the people you meet don’t slavishly follow a guidebook – when you do that you will just end up in crowded places.  Do research on any sort of tour y...

Some people chase fire trucks, others follow typhoons to get the best photos, while war journalists or photographers, because of their job, are often in the most dangerous parts of the world, but what about tourists? As soon as trouble breaks out (de...

Not everyone can travel. Living in New Zealand means we have a better chance than many. We have a far higher rate of people with passports than most countries, and countries which are poorer are much more likely to be visited than to produce travell...

It seems there’s no universally accepted definition of ecotourism, and there are considerable overlaps in the meanings. It’s perhaps the most over-used and misused word in the tourism industry – often deliberately misused for marketing purp...

What a shame! In August of last year I wrote an article on The Senator. The Senator at Big Tree Park is one of the largest Cypress trees in America. The Senator was used as a landmark by the Seminole Indians, as well as the other Native American...

I know you remember when you were a child and you pretended that your bicycle was a motorcycle and you would ride it all around the place. Needless to say now that you’re all grown up you still have an urge to go riding but you may possibly be...

Walking through the Atlanta International Airport I discovered one of the coolest ideas… This exhibit, which extended throughout the airport, successfully stopped me in my tracks. It’s the Recycle Runway Collection, a traveling exhibition...