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My definition of green travel is that it is fundamentally about how you travel to a destination as that is usually the biggest carbon footprint of a holiday - even energy intensive holidays such as skiing or travelling to a festival - it's likely that the majority of carbon emissions will come from how you get there rather than what you do when you're then. So it's about choosing low emissions alternatives to flying, such as rail and coach. Then it's about choosing eco-friendly places to stay - and in general what I mean by that is that they do one or more of the following:  reduce their draw on energy  minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill  minimise the amount of water used  source local and/or seasonal and/or organic food

I can't think of a holiday that is 100% green, almost all forms of motorised transport have some sort of emissions, so green travel is all about reducing these emissions as much as possible. It's about greenER travel, reducing your environmental impact as much as possible but also maximising your impact in terms of how your holiday benefits the destination by choosing a way to travel and progressive travel companies that support local economies and contribute in a meaningful way to biodiversity conservation.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has recently provided the following figures for the greenhouse gas emissions associated with transport as: Rail passenger on†a Eurostar train: 17.14g CO2e per passenger kilometre  Foot passenger on a ferry: 22.54g CO2e per passenger kilometre  Air passenger on a short haul flight (UK to Central Europe): 116g CO2e per passenger kilometre  Air passenger on a domestic flight (between UK airports): 205.15g CO2e per passenger kilometre

Iit's been disappointing that the large tourism trade shows haven't historically really addressed the carbon/transport issue. Though things are changing, The environmental campaigner Tony Juniper in his opening address tackled the subject head on at WTM this year, and at the excellent European Ecotourism Conference (http://www.european-ecotourism.com/), the subject was discussed in depth...

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