Travel and Tourism : a Clean and Green Future
Travel Begins at 40 Founder, Mark Bibby Jackson, argues that the travel and tourism sector should move towards a clean and green future as it recovers from a calamitous 2020…
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Travel Begins at 40 Founder, Mark Bibby Jackson, argues that the travel and tourism sector should move towards a clean and green future as it recovers from a calamitous 2020…
The world has changed over the past couple of months – so drastically that many predict it will never be the same again. Change can be bad, but it also…
In the aftermath of the last minute cancellation of the world’s largest world trade travel show Mark Bibby Jackson argues the case for considering virtual conferences and conventions – are…
Thanks to Greta Thunberg, it’s all the buzz at the moment in the aviation world, but is effective carbon offsetting more complicated than it sounds? Travel Begins at 40 walks…
Travel Begins at 40 looks at how to optimise your carbon footprint reduction when travelling by plane is unavoidable. The aviation industry is increasingly painted as the black sheep amongst…
Travel Begins at 40 looks at the relationship between climate change and tourism by comparing various modes of travelling to your next destination. Asking yourself what’s the greenest way to…
Johan Smits discusses abandoning flying with flygskam or the No Fly movement in the UK and Sweden. Have you heard yet of flygskam, Swedish for ‘flight shaming’? It’s the No…
Want to visit the Golden State but do it the green way, we have compiled 11 activities to discover California ecotourism, lower the carbon footprint and leave you with a…
Whether its the rising global temperatures, the escalation of natural phenomenum, such as the wildcat fires in Australia and Greece, storms in the Caribean or Spain or Philippino volcano eruptions, climate change is destined to be an issue that will be front page news for the forthcoming decades.
Perhaps you don’t agree with climate strikes or, like a certain president, deny that there is a climate emergency, but there is a strong and growing body of scientific evidence out there that would suggest theat climate change is real. At Travel Begins at 40 we bring you news and opinion on the climate debate, and its impact on the future of our planet.
One of the major drives – certainly in the travel sector – is the movement towards a No-Fly policy or Flight Shaming or Flygskram depending on where you come from. We even have our own guide to carbon offsetting. Should we take a train or a plane on our next holidays?
However, grave the situation on land, arguably it is even more perilous at sea. The vast quantity of single-use plastic that finds its way into the rivers and ultimately oceans of the world is having a lasting and damaging effect upon our planet. Many countries and islands, such as Aruba, are taking a positive action to reverse this trend by banning the use of single-use plastics upon their shores.
The answer, we feel, is yes. What is most important is that we act now to rectify the errors of the past – and present – to secure the future for our forthcoming generations. Let’s just hope it is not already too late.