So many huge wins for the environment in the lodging industry that we may look back on 2013 as the year interest in sustainability exploded.
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The world’s largest travel site announces the launch of a GreenLeaders ranking to help travelers plan greener trips. Travelers will be able to tailor their TripAdvisor searches for hotels in the new program, and view a detailed list of environmentally friendly practices they can expect at each location.
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| Bay Area Eco-Getaway | We’re overlooking a perfect crescent of sandy beach, watching the clam diggers harvest a chowder. In the protected harbor beyond, a vintage yacht with a rakish bowsprit gently bobs, while on the riprap break wall, anglers lazily cast crab snares and bait their hooks. Where are we, New England? Some [...]
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Wish a happy fifth birthday to the Big Solar of U.S. hotels, covering five acres and producing 10 million+ kW of electricity…
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Fairmont Pittsburgh, that city’s only LEED Gold-certified hotel, is named by the Fairmont chain as worldwide winner of its top environmental award…
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Econo Lodge hotels says it is the first national eco-friendly economy hotel chain. All Econo Lodge hotels in the U.S. will implement a program to “reduce environmental impact and waste, meet the changing expectations of today’s environmentally conscious guests and potentially lower operational expenses.”
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| Finding ‘Undiscovered’ Bali | My quest for ‘undiscovered’ Bali continues. I yearn to be alone in the wilds, with scarcely another tourist within miles, in the Bali of my imagining before it was inundated by outsiders like me. This road trip is to the island’s north coast, following rumors of a sweet treat of [...]
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| Green Wine Country in SoCal | Take a lazy drive along Rancho California Road, lined with vineyards, olive trees, and cypress, and you might, for a moment, imagine yourself in Tuscany rather than SoCal’s Temecula, an easy hour-or-so trip from San Diego, Orange County and Palm Springs. While the Temecula Valley doesn’t have the [...]
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| Down Duvets in Bali? | When afternoon rain clouds part, the limitless panorama stretches well beyond Bali’s southern shores. Ahhhh, this is more like it. Only an hour’s drive from the island’s overcrowded tourist beaches, these Bedugul central highlands feel blissfully remote. And that’s exactly why we’ve come to Desa Atas Awan (Village Above the [...]
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Starwood is launching a new luxury “lifestyle eco-brand” called 1 Hotels & Residences, with three openings scheduled in the next 24 months. The new brand is conceived as the first ground-up, luxury eco-design and living hotel concept
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