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Compensating your emissions by planting trees? Know the pros and cons and the dos and don’ts.

16 November 2007 Written by: Julianna Priskin

The popularity of carbon-neutral travel continues to grow, although no reliable figures have been published on the size of this market. Traveling or doing business carbon neutral is a voluntary, market-based option to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions caused. Using a web-based calculator, one simply calculates the emissions caused and then buys some credits [...]

Sustainable tourism
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Finally, a look at Canadian online travellers

9 November 2007 Written by: Claude Péloquin

For the first time, US research firm PhoCusWright has conducted a comprehensive study of the online travel marketplace in Canada: the Canadian Online Travel Overview. Though it has long been thought that Canadians lag behind Americans when it comes to using the Internet to plan and purchase travel, this report finally provides an overview of [...]

Distribution networks|etourism and technology|Facts and figures
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Making service decisions at a destination

2 November 2007 Written by: Maïthé Levasseur

Not all travel planning is done prior to departure and many decisions are made en route to or upon arrival at a destination. A recent study reports some facts and figures about this decision-making process and the information sources used at destinations and how the process is influenced by trip purpose and visitor origins. In [...]

Accommodation
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