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What does green travel mean? The main goal is your travel must be ecologically concerned whether away for business or pleasure, from green hotels and public transportation to local food and eco-tours. The main goal is “less waste”. Waste less water, paper, gas and so on. Take as minimum as you might need but no more. You can save the environment with reusable water bottles, carbon offsets, reducing the amount of water for bathing or showering, using the hotel van instead of renting a car, walking tours and public transportation, with purchasing electronic-tickets for airline travel whenever possible, take only the necessary and letting hotel management know, that you want them to conserve and that you want to participate.

There is “Green” Hotels Association which is encouraging all travelers to green up their travel. Patricia Griffin, the President of Hotels Association, suggests “encourage businesses to think as you do by choosing where to spend your travel dollars. Spend your dollars with travel businesses that are interested in protecting the beautiful destinations we all love to visit”.

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: “Look at this Godawful mess.” ~Art Buchwald, 1970