Tips to Travel Green

Please take a look at our tips below and also get some great ideas when you browse the links for ways to green your life. We encourage you to reduce your carbon emissions as much as possible and offset the remaining emissions.

• Pack light – less weight on flights uses less fuel
• Take direct flights – Taking off uses up a huge amount of fuel
• Take Daytime flights – Studies have shown night flights are more harmful to the atmosphere
• Use a solar powered charger
• Bring bio-degradable shampoo and soap
• Use natural sunscreen and bug-spray
• Bring a wind-up flashlight
• Use a digital camera rather than disposable or film
• Bring a water filter or purification drops or your own bottle to be filled at a water re-filling station to eliminate the waste from plastic water bottles
• Take the train, shuttle or bus to/from the airport
• Rent a hybrid car
• Put your Do Not Disturb sign up so the sheets or towels aren’t unnecessarily changed at hotels
• Eat locally grown foods