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RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL
Behind the fight for sustainable tourism in Okinawa
The turquoise water lapping against Okinawa’s pebbled beach is so clear that you can see an occasional parrotfish streaking by. Just behind it, the Hoshinoya Okinawa’s low-slung modernist villas blend into a landscape of gnarled fukugi trees and hibiscus.
Are these up-and-coming sustainable cities worth visiting?
When Daniel Anderson stepped off an electric ferry in Oslo, he braced for the usual urban cacophony. It never came.
Under a vast sky, Australia’s Northern Territory grapples with tourism sustainability
Just after sunset on a ranch outside Alice Springs, Australia, the inky blackness of the night sky drapes across the Outback.
Sustainable Sydney: How Australia’s tourism industry is leaning into the green
Margret Campbell stands at the edge of Sydney’s Harbor foreshore, her hand brushing the leaves of a seasonal wattle tree.
Bio, bitte! How green resorts are building Germany’s sustainability reputation
The Biostadt Schmilka, a sustainable resort on the bank of the Elbe river near the Czech border, looks like every other German village. There’s a Gasthaus and homes with immaculate gardens and fruit trees, and the river with colorful kayaks floating downstream.