A site called Green Traveler Guides just became the first green travel website to have its content syndicated by the Reuters news service, which specializes in international fare. That means content from the Guides will now be republished on Business Traveler, a new web channel on the Reuters website. Does this mean more business travelers are going eco? Ties made with organic cotton? Using their hotel towels more than once? Offsetting their airplane carbon emissions?
Green Traveler Guides showcases eco-friendly travel ideas that its writers have researched and experienced. "We won't send you anywhere we haven't been" is one of the site's slogans. The content includes articles on everything from green lodging, restaurants and shopping to general advice on traveling green.
Peter Myers, editor of the Reuters Business Traveler site, calls Green Traveler Guides "easily one of the very best blogs focused on traveling green we'd ever seen," culled from a list of thousands.
So we took a look. GTG is pretty comprehensive, with posts on everything from saving green (money) --- "Travel Secrets of Frequent Fliers" --- to Voluntourism, as in mixing volunteer service with your travel.
This site declares green travel as the future of travel, among everyone from Baby Boomers to Gen Xers and Millenials. Is it more expensive to be more responsible when you travel? It doesn't have to be that way, says this story, and some destinations are already passing on the savings from sustainability to the folks with the suitcases.
Green Traveler Guides is run by Gary and Peggy Diedrichs, the husband a longtime travel writer and his wife, a marketing pro. They both grew up on farms, and are now based in California's San Francisco Bay area.
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