Tag: sustainable travel
Denmark’s New Year Resolution: Eliminating Fossil-Fuel Powered Domestic Flights by 2030
The government of Denmark government has set a target of eliminating fossil fuel-powered domestic flights by 2030. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen remarked in her...
World Tourism Day 2020: Sustainable Travel in Post COVID India
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work, eat as well as travel. At the time when the pandemic was at its...
CSR: Five Corporates Enabling Convenient and Sustainable Commute
TomTom's traffic index ranks Bengaluru as number 1 for the world's worst traffic. Bengaluru has a congestion level of 71%. Congestion reflects the additional...
Overtourism Causing Loss of Life at Everest
11 trekkers lost their lives while attempting to climb Mount Everest in 2019. Three of them were Indian nationals, according to the official data...
Building an Environmentally Conscious Brand: In Letter and Spirit
I was intrigued that every big programme launched by the Indian Hotel Company (also known as The Taj Group of Hotels) had small beginnings.
Since...
MakeMyTrip’s GoGreen Drive Helps Plant One Million Trees
MakeMyTrip has successfully supported plantation of One Million Trees through MakeMyTrip Foundation in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand and Udaipur districts as part of its efforts to...
Travelling the sustainable path
When I was growing up in Varanasi in the ‘80s, a vacation typically meant visiting relatives in other towns or a must-see tourist destination...
CSR: The Rise Of Voluntourism
According to Stephen Wearing, Volunteer Tourists are defined as “those tourists who, for various reasons, volunteer in an organised way to undertake holidays that...
Greenwashing In Ecotourism is a Fool’s Game
Greenwashing looms ominously over travel and tourism. Defined as “disinformation that is disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public...
Sustainable And Responsible Travel
Travel culture has evolved enormously in India over the past few years. With rise of globalisation through internet and social media, more and more...