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Sustainable travel at a glance: Background, facts and tips

Sustainable travel at a glance: Background, facts and tips

If you’re like us, then you know that we can’t travel the way we did a few years ago. Maybe you’ve even changed the way you travel and are now looking for more sustainable options. Or maybe you want to learn more about the relationship…

More Sustainably furnished: Hotels with handmade wooden furniture

More Sustainably furnished: Hotels with handmade wooden furniture

Do you enjoy soft travel and have a passion for design and wooden furniture? Then you’re just like me! Before I moved to the Middle East, two of my favorite pieces of furniture were a beautiful 19th-century wooden cabinet and a desk that was once…

Tourism with an impact: A resort in Nepal fights child mortality and human trafficking

Tourism with an impact: A resort in Nepal fights child mortality and human trafficking

When Englishman Douglas Maclagan first traveled to Nepal in 1993, little did he know that the trip would change his life – and the lives of many others – forever. What began as a harrowing encounter led to an extraordinary tourism project in the foothills…

The Crystal Garden of Gut Guntrams – Collector Stefan M. Gergely on the importance (and exploitation) of minerals

The Crystal Garden of Gut Guntrams – Collector Stefan M. Gergely on the importance (and exploitation) of minerals

In the crystal garden at Gut Guntrams you will find about three dozen large exhibits. There is a 5.40 meter amethyst from Uruguay, a 1.40 meter rock crystal point from Zimbabwe, massive rose quartz (both rough and polished), fuchsite, petrified wood and a large fossilized…

Golf on vacation: Sustainable or an environmental problem?

Golf on vacation: Sustainable or an environmental problem?

Golf is considered an environmental disaster. There are courses that use millions of gallons of water a year. Instead of nature, you find heavily fertilized lawns with no biological value. The criticism of golf is not unjustified. However, attitudes are slowly changing and people are…