Product Description

This is a natural follow-on from Tourism Concern's hugely successful "Good Alternative Travel Guide" - the essential global resource for responsible travellers. Here, find hundreds of new ideas for your next holiday, and visit amazing communities not listed in other guidebooks. If you are tired of Tourist Traps and Guilt Trips, or just want to have a positive impact on local people and their environment, this book is for you. The extensive directory in this new Guide lists places to visit and stay in over 60 countries, and other useful resources chosen by Tourism Concern, for anyone interested in ethical and sustainable tourism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61160 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

Review
"'As ever, Tourism Concern is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the benefits of tourism are shared much more equitably' Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future"

Jonathon Porritt, CBE, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future
As ever, Tourism Concern is at the forefront of efforts to ensure
that the benefits of tourism are shared much more equitably.

Ian Waller, Real Travel Magazine
A crucial read for any environmentally-aware traveller.

Customer Reviews

Great guide- but take the train
Ethical Tourism, responsible travel, Fair Trade Travel what ever you want to call it is in its early days, but already it is showing that is capturing the imagination of people who want a more intense experience of world cultures and people as well as ensuring that the tourist pound is ending up in the pockets of the community visited and not some multinational tour operator or hotel chain.If you are going to travel the world The Ethical Travel Guide is a great route planner both to help you understand the cultures, environment of people as well as contribute the maximum while disturbing the minimum. It pulls out innovative / community tourist projects all over the world which will give the traveller a series of unique experiences of the culture, people and environment of the region.

The only poor area of the book is on air travel- the advice on the EU Carbon Trading scheme is just plain wrong- air travel is not included at the moment in the EU tarding scheme, nor does the scheme give money to carbon cutting schemes. All evidence is that plane travel is just plain bad for the planet- trains, boats and buses on the other hand let you see the world up close.