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ENTITY Mag presents tips for traveling sustainably

International travel to far-away lands has become an exciting goal for many people who are looking to escape their realities. Traveling can increase your sense of curiosity and individual prosperity. However, it’s time to review the impact it has on our planet. As we vacation to popular resorts, beaches, historic monuments, and museums, we affect the environment.

Today, the travel and hospitality industry is aware of the negative impact that fast-paced travel has brought to its communities. Many travel brands have changed their strategies to improve their environmental sustainability. However, as travelers, it is also our responsibility to see what we can do to lower our impact on the environment. Let’s take a look at 5 easy tips that you can follow to help sustainable travel become a movement, rather than a trend. 

1. Leave the Planned Itinerary at Home!

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When it comes to sustainable travel, going with the flow helps a lot! Taking your time while traveling can help you evolve and create meaningful connections in the region you are visiting. Without detailed, down-to-the-minute planning and frenetic traveling, you will be more present and reduce your carbon footprint by staying in a local area. When exploring foreign countries, you don’t always need extravagant plans when there’s so much around your local area. By ditching the itinerary and walking around the local sites, you can help the planet by avoiding cars and other forms of non-green transportation. Which leads to the next point.

2. Help the Local Community

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Get in touch with the local community while you’re on vacation! The locals provide the best education for you, and showcase their unique culture and speciality cuisine. Connect with locals to find popular locations, secret beaches, and delicious restaurants. Stephanie Osmanski writes in her article “Why Is Locally Grown Food Better for the Environment” that, “When you eat locally, you are cutting back on the necessity of more resources.” Eating locally is not only sustainable, it also supports the local economy!

3. Book With a Sustainable Hotel Brand

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There are many hospitality brands that aim to use sustainable resources. One of the hotel brands that is reversing its impact is the Jumeriah Vittaveli Resort in the Maldives.

This eco-friendly resort has been awarded the Green Globe Certification by applying the go green strategy of replacing regular lightbulbs with LED light bulbs and using their Eco Pure system to purify the seawater and process it into pure water. A hotel like this one makes sustainable travel attainable and attractive.

4. Avoid Flying

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When a plane takes off, the burning jet fuel releases greenhouse gases into carbon dioxide. It is estimated that planes are responsible for 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and oceans.

Today, United Airlines has changed the fuel on its jets to biofuel which has created a positive impact on the atmosphere. However, the best thing that you can do is take a train, bus, or car, and avoid flying altogether!

5. Beware of Sunscreen

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It’s a beach day, which means it’s time to soak your feet in the beautiful ocean! However, before stepping out into the sun, consider the sunscreen products you put on your skin. Many sunscreens contain toxic ingredients that damage the ocean’s ecosystem.

Reef Friendly Sun Bum Sunscreen created a product line free of oxybenzone and octinoxate. This chemical-free product is helping to build on Sun Bum’s ongoing mission of preserving the delicate wildlife in the ocean. Let’s do our part and protect our fish friends and heir habitat!

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A couple of years from now, sustainable travel is going to become part of our lifestyle. It’s our responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint, live sustainably, and lower the damaging impact on our environment. Together we can preserve our beautiful planet.

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