Among other exciting travel trends, Travelocity.com offers an easy way to travel green. Through its program, Travel for Good, Travelocity.com seeks to "encourage sustainability through two cornerstones: green travel and voluntourism."
Green Travel
Travelocity.com highlights a list of featured green hotels throughout the United States, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Simply click on the area you wish to visit, and a list of Travelocity.com certified green hotels becomes available.
In order to promote a hotel as being "green," Travelocity.com is a member of the Tourism Sustainability Council (TSC) and follows the group's set of sustainable practices. Travelocity.com cites the baseline for green travel as travel focused on "maximizing tourism's social and economic benefits to local communities; reducing negative impacts on cultural heritage; reducing harm to local environments; and planning for sustainability." Accordingly, each green hotel featured on the website follows TSC's guidelines or is promoted by a leading green hotel certification provider.
TSC is a result of a 2009 merger between The Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria and the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council. According to a press release, TSC's main objective is to "offer a common understanding of sustainable tourism and the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles and criteria." Other organizations involved in the Tourism Sustainability Council include the Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Check out Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria's website for more information.
Unfortunately, green hotel options are still somewhat limited. Travelocity.com only offers five green hotels in Pennsylvania, and the only one in the Philadelphia area is the Mariott Philadelphia Airport. This makes it difficult to get the best deal, but your stay will have less of a harmful impact on the environment.
Voluntourism
Voluntourism is a vacation or a trip in which you "give back" to the community you visit. Travelocity.com offers a list of its favorite trips where the volunteer work includes conservation efforts, teaching impoverished children, refurbishing buildings, setting up libraries, and assisting medical professionals among other work. It's a sort of mission trip you can fit in with your vacation. The key to budget travel is to approach in advance. When it comes along to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved vacations and/or going to see new places we have never been before, the truth of expense and budgeting is generally in the back of our mind. Planning and expending our travel budget carefully is a priority for most families. Minimizing expending and expenses, while still taking pleasure in your vacation to its fullest, is the key to certain success and fiscal liability. Your pocketbook and family will thank you! The reasoning regarding protecting money while traveling is simple: Even if your personal funds is really tight, you can still take a break and enjoy life! Simply put, life is just too short to never step out of the door or leaving the homestead! Also thinking about that while traveling, whether on a finances or not, even the smallest of things can all add op to a huge vacation or travel expenses!. Travelocity.com even offers a $5000 voluntourism grant for travelers who need extra financial help to volunteer on their trip.
Travelocity.com also offers ideas on how to volunteer at home with your family. This page features links to Take Pride in America, National Trails Day, and Earthwatch Institute.
With so many options for green trips and hotels, Travelocity.com makes it easier to give back on your vacation. "At Travelocity, we believe we can make the world a better place, one trip at a time," the company asserts.
Check out The Window Seat, Travelocity.com's green travel blog, for more ideas and highlights of green travel.
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