Full Description
This book suggests ways in which we can enjoy our holidays and our travel even more: by becoming green travellers. It also suggests different types of green holidays and encourages some of the better examples of good environmental practice in holidaymaking around the world.
Contents
Foreword by Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge -- Acknowledgements -- List of Boxes -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The British Airways Tourism fo r Tomorrow' Award Scheme -- Section One : The Greener Holiday -- 1 How Can We Become Greener Travellers? -- Hints for Green Travellers -- Before you go -- Transports - of delight? -- While you are away Coming home -- 2 Greener Holidays -- Wildlife Watching -- Bird watching -- Safaris and wildlife photography -- Whale and dolphin watching -- Conservation Holidays -- British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) -- The National Trust -- Earthwatch Institute -- Sea Life Surveys -- Coral Cay Conservation -- Waterway Recovery Group -- Environmental management, volunteering and campaigning -- Longer-term Volunteering -- Heritage Holidays -- Heritage hints for green travellers -- English Heritage -- The National Trust -- The Landmark Trust -- Historic Houses Association -- Windmills and watermills -- Sports and Activity Holidays -- On firm ground -- Snow and ice -- On and in the water -- Up in the air -- Hunting and fishing -- Back to the Land: Farm and Food Holidays -- On-the-farm hints for green travellers -- Vegetarian holidays -- Learning Holidays and Environmental Education -- Retreats, Pilgrimages, Spiritual, Healing and Holistic Holidays -- Retreats -- Holistic holidays -- Complementary medicines and healing holidays -- Section Two : Points on the Green Compass -- 3 Close to Home -- Britain -- Ireland -- Isle o f Man -- The Channel Islands -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 4 Europe -- Western Europe -- Central and Northern Europe -- Scandinavia -- Eastern Europe -- Russia -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 5 The Middle East -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 6 Africa -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 7 The Caribbean -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 8 North America -- The United States -- Canada -- Native Americans -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 9 Central America -- Tourism fo r Tomorrow Awards -- 10 South America -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 11 India, the Subcontinent, Himalayas and Central Asia -- Tourism fo r Tomorrow Awards -- 12 China and North-East Asia -- 13 South-East Asia -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 14 The Pacific -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- 15 Australasia -- Australia -- New Zealand -- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards -- Section Three : The Green Traveller 's Directory -- 16 The Tourism Industry: Global Initiatives -- What is Sustainable Tourism? -- Global Responses to the Challenge: Officialdom, Trade and Industry -- Human Rights Watchdogs -- Pro-Environment Initiatives -- Consultancies -- An Issue Apart: Curbing Child Sex Tourism -- 17 Connections: ABC Listing o f Organisations, Operators and Resources -- International Industry, Cross-sectoral and Intergovernmental Bodies -- Independent Ethical and Pro-environment Pressure and Interest Groups -- Green-minded Action or Project Groups and Activity Destinations -- Tourism Award Schemes and Major Professional or Trade Sector Associations -- Sport, Adventure, Spiritual and O ther Special Leisure Activity Bodies -- Official National Agencies, Tourism Promoters or Franchisees, by Country -- 18 Now Read O n... Recent Sources o f Inform ation and Further Reading -- Books and Manuals -- journals and Newsletters -- Online Resources -- Index.
