Deceptive 'Greenwashing' Aims to Trick Ecotourists

Reader Comments
Back to article

All amounts were gunned to afford from this little evening mall.

setting up digital pictures for slideshow of AL 8:14PM May 19, 2010

The only true eco-tourism is to choose not to go...

Dennis of TN 11:19PM December 25, 2008

The truth about Georgia...
http://osetian.com/
http://osgenocide.ru/

Sergey of MN 2:34PM August 26, 2008

we should encourage that activity although the most enviromental friendly way is hiking.

BinsenLi 7:26AM July 23, 2008

Until you can fly a hydrogen powered dirigible airship to your destination

Chris of OH 9:57AM July 01, 2008

Here is perhaps the best approach of all for leaving absolutely no carbon footprint during you luxury travel: Bike to your luxury eco-resort or stay home. Flying via commercial jet will not be offset by having your sheets changed every other day.

Jerome Thomas of WA 1:09PM June 18, 2008

With all due respect to the last post, we're quite proud of what we started at Orbitz Worldwide with http://eco.orbitz.com.
We want our customers to know that we're in it to make the travel & tourism industry a greener place. We encourage every travel company to follow our leadership in the tourism industry and applaud our colleagues when they embrace sustainable travel & tourism practices.
Our commitment to greener travels is why Orbitz partnered with Carbonfund.org. It is why we built a search tool that empowers our customers with the ability to directly access hybrid vehicles at http://hybrids.orbitz.com. That is why our content partners at www.away.com provide top-of-the-line editorial to enrich our eco-site.
Since this article went to print, Orbitz launched a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote ENERGY STAR® rated hotels. See this press release link for more information: http://pressroom.orbitz.com/index.php?s=43&item=652.
Promoting the ENERGY STAR® hotel program is a step towards achieving our goal of international uniformity in rating eco-friendly hotels and lodging. And we continue to encourage industry discussions that will hopefully lead to widely accepted standards and oversight. Until that day comes, we will continue to celebrate suppliers who take action on their own to get green, be it through small steps or large.
More to come - so keep coming back to Orbitz!

Brian Hoyt of IL 2:28PM May 27, 2008

There is, in fact a website who provides an actual Green Score ratings system for hotels. It is called RezHub.com. They grade hotels based on the ways the care for the planet and hotels recieve 1 - 5 Green Branches based on the programs they incorporate. Hotels earn points for things like recycling, using alternative energy, even offering organic food. The site is leaps and bounds ahead of the Eco Orbitz site.

of FL 10:12AM May 27, 2008