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Green tourism partnership yields results for environment


   Feb 28

Green tourism partnership yields results for environment

From www.eturbonews.com:

Making money by going green, by reducing the company’s carbon footprint to zero – now that is a challenge, but as environmental awareness ranks ever higher among long-haul travelers – and Eastern Africa is a long-haul destination from most major tourist markets – the “going green” concept is gathering momentum and the time might just come sooner than expected when the “non-greeners” will be shunned and punished by a changing pattern of consumer behavior.

Here, as everywhere, it is the early birds which catch the proverbial worms, and the following story about SafariLink and Porini Camps might allow a glimpse into the future when opulence and consumption will need to be replaced by restraint and careful marshalling of the remaining resources. An airline going green, going carbon neutral, VOLUNTARILY – in this day and age of economic pressures, impossible you might think, especially in Eastern Africa where NO regulations exist as yet on the use of noise and air polluting aircraft.

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