Comments on: Green travel: Did many travellers care in the first place? http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/09/16/green-travel-did-many-travellers-care-in-the-first-place/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Travelling beyond the gushing hyperbole Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Trillo http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/09/16/green-travel-did-many-travellers-care-in-the-first-place/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Richard Trillo Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:51:03 +0000 http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=267#comment-454 This is a wind-up, right? The whole world is talking about green travel! Maybe you've just stopped noticing. This is a wind-up, right? The whole world is talking about green travel! Maybe you’ve just stopped noticing.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/09/16/green-travel-did-many-travellers-care-in-the-first-place/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Nathan Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:23:30 +0000 http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=267#comment-451 Interesting. I still see ad-hoc pieces (e.g. The Times's 'is this the greenest hotel in England?' bit on The Scarlet the other day) but fashion does seem to have moved on. Perhaps that's a good thing. The temptation to see it as a specialist product category potentially glosses over the need for industry-wide action. It's still on the agenda at industry level, by the way - the Travel Foundation is doing some good work, like the Make Travel Greener training programme, and sustainability remains a staple on conference programmes. Interesting. I still see ad-hoc pieces (e.g. The Times’s ‘is this the greenest hotel in England?’ bit on The Scarlet the other day) but fashion does seem to have moved on. Perhaps that’s a good thing. The temptation to see it as a specialist product category potentially glosses over the need for industry-wide action.

It’s still on the agenda at industry level, by the way – the Travel Foundation is doing some good work, like the Make Travel Greener training programme, and sustainability remains a staple on conference programmes.

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