traveling greener » travel tips http://www.travelinggreener.com a green travel blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How To Conserve At Your Hotel http://www.travelinggreener.com/video/conserve-at-your-hotel/ http://www.travelinggreener.com/video/conserve-at-your-hotel/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:34:05 +0000 Sonya http://www.travelinggreener.com/?p=30314

Want to go greener on your summer vacation?  Then check out this short video Conserve At Your Hotel from WhatYouCanDo.com.

This summer, we’ve highlighted green videos from the series by New York-based On the Leesh Productions.

Here are more green travel videos:

Videos courtesy of On the Leesh Productions

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What are your favorite greener holiday tips?  UK family holiday park company Haven Holidays suggests these tips:

1. Holiday closer to home and minimize your carbon footprint.

2. Park and stay where you are.  Swap the car for bikes, buses or walking.

3. Discover nature and the local wildlife.

4. Find the nearest place to recycle all your paper, plastic and bottles.

5. Camp and holiday close to nature.

6. Switch off your lights and TV before you head out for the day.

7. Take showers which use much less water than baths.

8. Buy and eat local (fresh fish, farmers markets, local cheeses and beer) wherever you can.

9. Switch off and relax into a slower pace of life.

10. Check out local ‘green’ activities when you arrive.

Image courtesy of Haven Holidays

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Image courtesy of Cycling Embassy of Denmark

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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