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How To Cycle The World (In Luxury)

February 11th, 2010
CyclingEmbassyofDenmarkholiday on one bike How To Cycle The World (In Luxury)

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If you love luxury bicycle trips, then DuVine Adventures and its global bicycle tours might be your speed.

The cycling tour company has launched a new website with brand new 2o1o itineraries: Cycling in Croatia and multi-sport tour in the Galapagos & Ecuador. Also a new blog shows images from bicycling tours; pages on the bikes, guides, wine, and history of each destination and thousands of travel tips.

Since 1996, DuVine Adventures has specialized in personalized cycling tours in Europe (France, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia); North America, South America and South Africa.  Their travelers cycle and stay in the best hotels, eat gourmet cuisine and taste world-class wines.

For more info, visit DuVine Adventures online.

Images courtesy of DuVine Adventures

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10 Eco-Film Festivals You’ll Love

February 2nd, 2010

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Are you planning to attend an eco-film festival in 2010?   There are a surprising number of eco-film festivals planned around the world.

This year, traveling greener is dreaming about visiting the Greek island of Rhodes for its Ecofilms International Film & Visual Arts Festival.  “An open forum embracing the human and the ecology of the mind”, this festival will show documentaries, shorts and features with environmental and ecological themes.

Here are 10 Eco-Film Festival sites you’ll love:

1. Ecofilms Festival

2. San Francisco Ocean Film Festival

3. Catalonia International Environmental Film Festival

4. Cinema Planeta

5. Ecofilm Fest 2010

6. Blue Planet Film Fest

7. Planet in Focus

8. Ecovision Festival

9. Environmental Film Festival

10. Environmental Film Festival Network

What is your favorite eco-film festival?  Tell us about it.

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10 Digital Magazine Sites You’ll Love

November 10th, 2009
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Digital versions of your favorite travel magazines are greener, more mobile alternatives to their paper versions.

Select airlines and media companies are featuring free digital versions of their magazines on their sites.  While more travel magazines are offering a free preview of their digital version and digital subscriptions.

In other cases, magazines are opting to enhance their online profile, increasing current and archived content on their sites.  If you’re seeking digital travel magazines, sites like Zinio sell subscriptions to diverse consumer and trade publications.

We love Wend Magazine (above), which specializes in adventure/inspiration/travel/activism.  The magazine launched its digital version over a year ago.

Says Stiv Wilson, Editor in Chief, Wend Magazine:

“We invested in the digital platform for several reasons.  Even though we pay through the nose for locally sourced FSC certified paper and print locally, digital is still, of course, greener…It’s been received well.  For one, it’s great to have this asset for international subscribers, and because production is a fixed cost, it allows poor college students and the like to be able to get a subscription on a cheap beer budget.  Also, it’s a tremendous marketing tool…”

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New Marketplace ekoVenture Launches

October 28th, 2009

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Calling itself “the first social marketplace for experiential travel”, ekoVenture recently launched.

The site provides access to 10,000+ travel experiences and day activities from 450+ tour operators in over 160 countries. A community of travelers will  also share reviews, blogs, photos, videos and more.

“Experiential travel is the fastest growing segment of travel because consumers are seeking more authentic travel experiences to break the cruise ship and theme park cycles”, says TJ Sassani, ekoVenture’s Founder and CEO.

Travel categories on ekoVenture include sustainable, cultural, adventure, culinary, active sport and voluntourism.  Among the trip experiences offered are cycling in the Moroccan desert ; sailing the Greek Islands; sip and cycling in Napa Valley ; hiking the Kokoda track in Papua New Guinea and volunteering in east Africa.

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Is “Eco-pricing” A Travel Trend?

October 27th, 2009

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Is “eco-pricing” a new travel trend?

Eco-tour provider Natural Habitat Adventures has announced new  “Eco-Pricing” with its local operators, hotels and transportation providers around the world.  They’re hoping to increase traveler visits through savings to sensitive habitats including U.S. grizzly territory, Mexico’s winter home for monarch butterflies, South America, India and Africa.

An exclusive Conservation Travel Provider to World Wildlife Fund, the award-winning company has been named a 2009 Best Adventure Travel Company by National Geographic Adventure and a 2009 World’s Best Tour Operator by Travel + Leisure.

Says Natural Habitat Adventures founder and director Ben Bressler:

“We’ve always been innovators in responsible tourism – from being the first U.S. tour company to go carbon neutral to creating the first hybrid safari vehicle – and we’re always looking for that next idea. It suddenly hit us that in tough economic times perhaps the biggest idea is the simplest: Lower prices mean more travel – which means more support for threatened places. You’ll see our Eco-pricing logo all over our catalog and website, and we’ve had a great response to those efforts. It’s not a discount for discount’s sake; it’s clearly tied to our broader environmental mission, and that deeper message seems to resonate with our guests.”

The company’s Eco-Pricing program offers savings on 25+ Natural Habitat Adventures’ small-group experiential nature expeditions.

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