Nominate a green initiative for the Guardian Green Travel List
Last updated 4/7/2011 9:29:40 AM
Nominate a green initiative for the Guardian Green Travel List
Nominations are invited for the 2011 Guardian Green Travel List.
The Guardian's Green Travel List is a guide to companies worldwide that have shown evidence of commitment to community, place and the environment. If you've been inspired by a company, project, organisation or eco initiative, we'd love to hear about it. We're particularly looking for innovative projects, such as hotels that provide their own renewable energy, visitor centres and attractions that have significantly cut their carbon emissions, low emissions transport initiatives, and authentic community projects worldwide that genuinely give back to the local people and the destination.Please send suggestions to: info@greentraveller.co.uk, stating clearly:
1. The name of the project and relevant website
2. The category you'd like to nominate it for, choose from the following: AccommodationTransportDays Out/Visitor AttractionsCommunity ProjectsHolidays
3. Why you think it should be included in the Green Travel List (200 words max)
The Guardian's Green Travel List is a guide to companies worldwide that have shown evidence of commitment to community, place and the environment. If you've been inspired by a company, project, organisation or eco initiative, we'd love to hear about it.
The List is organised by greentraveller.co.uk in association with The Guardian and Forum for the Future. The Chair of Judges is Dr Graham Miller, Director of International Studies at the University of Surrey. The list will be published in the Guardian newspaper in late Spring.
We're looking for specific innovative projects, such as hotels that provide their own renewable energy, visitor centres and attractions that have significantly cut their carbon emissions, low emissions transport initiatives, and authentic community projects worldwide that genuinely give back to the local people and the destination.
In particular, we are seeking travel and tourism companies who have been really creative and innovative in thinking about how they can be more sustainable. We want to know about innovations in technology and use of technology, but also in marketing, business models, pricing or product design. The aim is to create a list of companies that have been the most innovative in some respect in order to make their business more sustainable.
Please send suggestions to: info@greentraveller.co.uk, stating clearly:
1. The name of the project and relevant website
2. The category you'd like to nominate it for, choose from the following:
Accommodation
Transport
Days Out/Visitor Attractions
Community Projects
Holidays, eg. winter/summer activities
3. Why you think it should be included in the Green Travel List (200 words max).
Nominations must be received by 5pm Friday 25 March 2011.
The nominations will then be shortlisted and sent a questionnaire asking for more details about their green initiative. A panel of judges will then then select which entries appear on the final Green Travel List. The panel of judges is chaired by Dr Graham Miller, and includes Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project, Greg Stevenson, of Under the Thatch (one of last year's entries on the list), greentraveller's founder Richard Hammond, and Andy Pietrasik & Gemma Bowes, travel editors at the Guardian newspaper and online travel section.
Read the results of last year's Guardian Green Travel List, which was published in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday 20 February 2010.
About Greentraveller.co.uk
www.greentraveller.co.uk is a website that provides information on how to have a greener holiday. It features trips that can be conveniently reached by train, as well as a range of green places to stay in the UK and abroad. The website's unique journey planner gives practical advice (including prices and sample itineraries) for over 80 train journeys from London St Pancras International to Europe and suggestions for stopover hotels in Paris, Lille and Brussels as well as further afield in Madrid, Copenhagen and Morocco. It also provides detailed information on how to travel to and from Ireland without flying.
The website also has an award-winning blog that features news, reviews and tips on how to go green from leading eco travel writers. greentraveller.co.uk was founded in 2006 by green travel writer, Richard Hammond, co-author of Great Escapes (2010, Rough Guides) and travel editor of National Geographic Green magazine supplement.