It is vital to ask hotels and other travel suppliers to do their best when it comes to environmental practices. At the Green Travel Hub, we do our best to provide you with all the information possible before your trip to pick the hotel and activities that best suit your eco-minded adventure. You can browse through our weighted green hotel directory or read through our green travel city guides to get as much info as possible. But, what about when you go? Are you a green traveler?
It doesn’t take much to be a green traveler. In fact, I challenge you to start on your next hotel stay with something simple. Just make sure your lights are off when you depart the room. That’s it. If we can all do that, we are off to a great start.
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Yes, my husband and I always research hotels online that are really taking care of their community, the environment and the world at large. Either by being truly green, having good employment standards, buying their products from companies that make their goods locally or at least regionally….
It makes a difference by supporting companies that are being good corporate citizens – and it makes our travel that much more enjoyable knowing we are part of the solution – instead of contributing to the problem.
We use hotels certified by Green Travel Hub, EPA’s Energy Star, Green Seal, LEED, and Green Key.
Starting a few years ago we asked ourselves, “do we want to stay in a hotel that is slowly (or quickly) destroying the very place that we love and are traveling to just to enjoy” (by their wasting energy and causing unnecessary pollution, excess waste, using and releasing toxic chemicals..) Or should we stay in places that are protecting the places that we love and want to be able to take our family to for years to come. If you ask yourself that question, the answer is pretty simple, right?