Articles tagged “green”

Local fertilizer runoff causes the algae growth that’s impacted the lake’s tourism profits year after year, highlighting the interconnection of agriculture, health, and tourism economies in one small ecosystem.

Israel has been profiting off the Dead Sea in more ways than one, but tourism and mineral harvesting significantly impact the long-term health of the sea and the future of businesses relying on it.

Carnival would rather skip town that meet the EPA standards that would make its dirt-cheap cruises acceptable.

The Keys, Maldives, Cuba, and others are now facing the very real impacts of global warming and unless effective changes are made quickly, rising sea levels could wipe out the destinations’ economic sustenance before buildings are underwater.

Sometimes smart development comes through the hard work of building consensus across a community, state, or nation. And sometimes all you need is a benevolent dictator.

The U.S. is years behind Europe and Asia when it comes to innovative rail programs, but leave it to Portland to te to catch p quickly.

River cruises are the hot thing in European tourism right now, but they face challenges from floods and rising water levels that limit where their boats can go.

Profitability and sustainability go hand-in-hand on Catalina where protecting the environment is big business and drives the island’s main source of income: tourism.

Industry-wide standards understandably take a long time to develop, but this timetable is exacerbated by airlines that are more concerned with profits than environmental sustainability.

Branson has certainly learned that not all Caribbean islands are created equal, as the competing interests that separate cruise-ship friendly ports from high-end ports or sleepy islands mean that not everyone necessarily cares about the health of the reefs.