Travel Green

Ecotourism is known as ‘Green Travel’ from planning to traveling, to visiting other lands and learning, to returning home and sharing the experience with family and friends.

Ecotourists seek opportunities to travel the globe and see the world, as well as contribute to the future of Planet Earth. They book journeys that minimize the negative aspects of conventional tourism on the environment while enhancing the cultural integrity of local people. Specifically, they find ways to assist in creating economic opportunities for local communities.

Such diverse motivations are only beginning to take hold in the modern world. But opportunities for ecotourists to both meet their own desires for travel and also make their mark in creating a sustainable world are incredibly exciting and almost never-ending.


The ecotourist and the local resident benefit from travel focused on environmental conservation and personal responsibility. Added to that is the joy and excitement of seeing something new and different in a land far away.

Ecotourists may travel in groups with carefully choreographed schedules that target a specific local need or they may journey individually to natural areas that appeal to their unique idiosyncrasies and interests. Carried to the next level, business and industry in pre-eminent countries are now looking at ecotourism as an investment, both in the future of developing countries as well as at home. Strengthening enterprises in developing countries benefits the ‘helping’ business/group as well as those being helped. An investment well-managed reaps benefits for all parties involved in the effort.

Knowledge about the benefits of living and traveling ‘green’ expands daily. Along with that information, advantages of ecotourism become more sharply defined for world travelers. Traveling to learn about the complex world in which we live is not new. But what is new is combining learning with making a contribution to local cultures as tourists make choices about what continent and region they want to see next. We who live in modern society are finally beginning to learn that we can learn from locals throughout the world while we have fun traveling. And we can contribute eco-nomically to their lives in the process.