2009 Green Travel Summit announced ...

This year's Green Travel Summit willbe mentored by CNN’s Olivia Zaleski, sustainable experts David Refkin & Auden Schendler, and EPA’s Harry Lewis.

The 2009 forum will be focused on sustainability in business - exploring green travel strategies and their impact on business travel and corporate meetings.

I have read some negative feedbaks on the fact that this was driven by business thoughts but we at Greenty always believe that business needs to be associated to green travel - and green travel needs to involve business decision makers - or green travel will go nowhere or end up as a tiny niche market - and make few or no difference at the end.

So we welcome this initiative ... helping corportations understand that going for green travel can have a positive ROI is good and is the way forward to help green travevel become more than just a niche of the leisure travel market.

The Green Travel Summit will be held at the Fairmont, Newport Beach, California, March 23-24, 2009.

More info at http://www.greentravelsummit.com/

Rydges from Australia announces Green Globe certified Hotels

Yes indeed it is difficult to differentiate true green hotels from hotels simply communicating on green certification...

That's why it is important to have global certification scheme, such as Green Globe .

The leading Australia hotel chain, Rydges, has just announced that two hotels have become Green Globe Bronze Benchmarked Hotels - Rydges Lakeland Resort Queenstown and Capitol Square Hotel in Sydney.

Their key green performance areas are:

•Energy efficiency, conservation and management

•Reduction in green house gas emissions

•Reduction in the consumption of fresh water and resources

•Support for local community development

•Improved management of social and cultural issues

•Improved land use planning and management

•Improved air quality and noise reduction

•Improved waste water management

•Waste minimization, reuse and recycling

Congratulations to both properties! more info at www.rydges.com/green-globe-hotels.asp