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Emirates wins big for Conservation

Emirates Hotels & Resorts was honored with the Global Conservation Award for its long term commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship throughout its entire property portfolio.

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China joins the Green Globe

With a new green hotel standard for China’s hospitality industry – a program created by Green Globe – traveling green in China may not be such a crazy notion after all.

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Going green and wild in China with a new carbon offset option

WildChina and Climate Action are now offering China travelers a new set of carbon offset options to green-up their journeys in the far East.

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Marriott helps promote sustainable business in China

The popular hotel group is headlining a new campaign to protect fresh water availability to over 2 billion people in China’s Sichuan Province – an area hit hard by the 2008 earthquake – as well as spearhead a variety of sustainability projects across the board.

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Sustainable biodiversity to be celebrated this World Tourism Day 2010

This year, the travel industry will be marking World Tourism Day by highlighting how sustainable tourism initiatives can directly contribute to the conservation of biodiversity.

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Do some good: Voluntourism brings new opportunities to travelers

Volunteer travel is a diverse and “charitable” sect of responsible travel that is rapidly growing in popularity. Due largely in part to the need for volunteer work around the globe bundled with people’s desire to experience the world in new ways, volunteer travelers typically share a desire to “do something good” while also experiencing new places and challenges in locales they might not otherwise visit.

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Do the Olympics hurt or help international tourism?

Generally, the Olympics should benefit a host city’s tourism economy. So, is there any real truth to claims that an Olympic Games host city can actual suffer economic and environmental damages by hosting the Olympics?

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New iPhone App offers translation tools to travelers

Don’t travel alone: take along a “native speaker” and turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a mobile talking translator.

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China's Ctrip.com launches carbon offset program

Travelers in China can now travel responsibly with Ctrip.com; the region’s leading travel consolidator has announced a carbon offset program in partnership with U.S. carbon offset provider NativeEnergy.

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World Heritage Travel Expo 2008 partners with Macau.com

Macau.com, the leading online destination marketing and travel company in Macau, is the official online travel agency for the World Heritage Travel Expo 2008, a networking platform designed to showcase cultural and natural heritage sites around the world.

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Macau, the fastest-growing destination in 2008, promotes economic development through tourism

The Macau Government Tourist Office continues to focus on fostering the development of tourism diversity and enhance the economic effects of tourism on the society and economy as a whole as Macau’s tourism industry grows in leaps and bounds.

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Yao Ming Becomes UNEP's First 'Environmental Champion'

Top Olympic athlete Yao Ming is the UN Environment Programme’s first-ever Environmental Champion, UNEP announced today.

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Green Energy Will Fuel the Olympic Experience for Millions of Spectators in Beijing

As seven million spectators count down to the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, solar energy, wind farms and recycled water are among the green features that will help power their Olympic experience.

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United Nations supports "Greening of the Games" in Beijing

UNEP has been working with the Beijing Olympic Committee for the last three years in order to help make the Summer Games environmentally-friendly.

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Olympic Truce urges countries to lay their weapons down in solidarity with the Beijing games

Less than two weeks before the 2008 Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN General Assembly are calling on all those who are at war to observe the traditional two-week Olympic Truce.

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Olympic-minded officials bring Beijing traffic to a crawl

The outcry over whether or not the city is environmentally suitable to host the games has persuaded the city of Beijing to start limiting traffic through its busy streets.

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Solatube International helps 2008 Olympic Games go green

As China set out to create the first-ever “Green Olympics,” designers turned to Solatube International Inc., the worldwide leading manufacturer and marketer of Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs) to provide natural lighting solutions for a new Olympic event-designated gymnasium at the Beijing Science & Technology University.

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China Travel Distribution & Tech Summit opens for registration

Traveldaily (www.traveldaily.cn), China’s leading online publisher with emphasis on the distribution, marketing and technology trends in the travel and tourism industries, today announced that it will host the 2008 China Travel Distribution & Technology Summit at the InterContinental Pudong Hotel, Shanghai from November 20 to 21, 2008.

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Inbound tourists go away and stay away for the Olympics

Reports are coming in from China that newly built hotels are standing empty in the run-up to the Olympic Games. The latest data to emerge from Greece and Australia suggests that tourism to the host country is harmed even more than to the host city.

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Rebuilding Hope and Opportunity in Myanmar and Sichuan

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Foundation is calling on the travel industry to support a recovery fund to help rebuild the lives of tourism industry employees in the devastated areas of Myanmar and Sichuan, China.

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