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  • hot greek summer ahead?

    Hot summer ahead, and not just speaking about climate change...some days it seems that the world is spinning out of control. While the Mediterranean peoples are revolting in violent and non-violent ways, rightly demanding real democracy (although...

  • The delightful Anafiotika anachronism

    Non-ostentatious, quickly-built and modest enough so as to be missed by the law in the 1840s, today fortuitously missed by many high-season tourists fixating on the Acropolis: the Anafiotika neighbourhood, right below the massive Acropolis rock, on its...

  • Adaptation Ideas for Small Hospitality & Tourism Providers during and after the Pandemic.

    On May 7th, 2020 we held a Virtual Ecoclub Member Meeting to discuss 'Pandemic Adaptation Strategies for Ecotourism'. Our aim was to brief each other on local conditions and compare notes on what can be done during and in the aftermath of the pandemic...

  • Report by Nikki Rose: Crete Needs to Restore its Gastronomic Heritage

    From the Destination Stewardship Report, e-newsletter is a collaboration between the Destination Stewardship Center and Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and in time maybe others. Crete Needs to Restore its Gastronomic Heritage Culinary expert Nikki...

  • Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries, October 2022 Program, Outdoor Adventures and Gastronomy

    Greetings from Crete, Greece! We had a great summer in Crete. We're finally back to organizing academic study tours and open programs. Our visitors learned a lot and had a great time! I will be speaking at the International Workshop on Agritourism on...

  • Ecoclub | Free Membership

    Ecoclub is an ecotourism portal and professional network established in 1999, today with Members worldwide. Details & Testimonials Our Free Membership (a legacy package, no longer offered - click here to see current Membership options) included the...

  • Ecoclub | Ecoclub Ecolodge™ Ecolabel Audit Reports

    26 Accommodation facilities have successfully completed the Ecoclub Ecolodge™Ecolabel Audit process so far (most recent first). Pousada Serra Verde (Brazil) Audit Report 2023 | Audit Report 2020 Pousada Serra Verde is nestled in the foothills of the...

  • ECOCLUB.com Awards 2011 - Our Annual Grants Program

    About the Awards Past Award Winners: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 The Winners of the ECOCLUB.com Awards 2011 Doctors of the World - Greece (Médecins du Monde - Grèce) ECOCLUB.com provided a Euros 3,000 grant to cover equipment costs...

  • Impacts of Tourism Development in Saint Vlas, Bulgaria

    by Markus Frick Student, MA Tourism, Environment and Development, King’s College London. This paper discusses the impacts of tourism development in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast from a political ecological perspective, a perspective used so far mainly...

  • Costas Carras, Elliniki Etairia Founder, passes away at 84

    Costas Carras (1938-2022), passed away just a few days after the 50th anniversary of Elliniki Etaireia - Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage, a leading Greek NGO which he founded with his wife Lydia in 1972. It was a reaction to the...

  • Court finds Ios Tourism Mega-Developer Guilty of Environmental Violations

    Residents and environmental organizations have tried for many years to stop a large tourism development on the picturesque Koumbara-Diakofto peninsula, that becomes a small island during winter months, one of a few remaining pristine landscapes on...

  • Juniper forest in Chrysi, small Island off Crete, off limits due to tourism pressures

    Environment Minister Hatzidakis had visited Chrysi Island in June 2020 and talked of a "shameful sight" promising action. This summer limits have been set on the number of tourists taking day trips to the uninhabited 5 sq. km sandy Chrysi (Golden)...

  • Τροπολογία αυξάνει τη δομημένη επιφάνεια στα σύνθετα τουριστικά καταλύματα και επιτρέπει τη διάνοιξη δρόμων σε δημόσιο δάσος

    Για την εξυπηρέτηση των τουριστικών εγκαταστάσεων, "θα επιτρέπεται διάνοιξη οδών και σε δημόσια δάση και δασικές εκτάσεις καθώς και σε χορτολιβαδικές, βραχώδεις ή πετρώδεις εκτάσεις των ημιορεινών, ορεινών και ανώμαλων εδαφών." Επίσης, στο υπό ψήφιση...

  • Rare species to be protected through national action plans

    The Ministry of Environment and Energy announced that six-year National Action Plans will be drawn for seven endangered species including the three vulture species, the caretta sea turtle, the Balkan chamois (Rupicapra), the Karpathos toad (Pelophylax...

  • Rhodes: Locals, environmentalists and archaeologists protest illegal development on Glystra beach

    A protest rally was held on Glystra beach in southern Rhodes on September 5, 2021 against an illegal development. The controversial construction, apparently a beach bar/restaurant, apparently commenced in February 2021, in winter and during quarantine,...

  • New cultural portal SearchCulture.gr offers wide variety of digital resources

    SearchCulture.gr is a new Greek aggregator for cultural content and national provider for Europeana, the EU cultural portal. A growing collection currently amounting to 800k items from 76 institutions, ranging from museums to municipalities, includes...

  • Melia Athens Hotel Employees on 24hr Strike to Protest Dismissals

    According to the Hotel Athens Melia Employees Committee in early December 2021 they were informed by the Hotel Manager of imminent layoffs, despite the fact that all employees are part of the "Syn-ergasia" programme which explicitly protects employees...

  • 88 Wineries now certified as 'visitable' by the Ministry of Tourism

    Speaking at the 3rd Wine Tourism Conference held in Nemea (1-3 April 2022) the Vice-Minister of Tourism Sophia Zacharaki announced a revamped portal for certified 'visitable' wineries, a new wine tourism awards scheme and welcomed the fact that 24 new...

  • Mykonos Swimming Pool Summer Refill Ban in place

    For one more summer (June 1 to August 31, 2022) it will be illegal for everyone including hoteliers to refill resort swimming pools due to water scarcity on the island. The ban was first introduced in 2018 and also prohibits refill by water trucks...

  • 24ωρη Απεργία στα Ξενοδοχεία του Ν. Αττικής, 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2023

    Το Συνδικάτο Επισιτισμού Τουρισμού Ξενοδοχείων του Νομού Αττικής καλεί σε 24ωρη απεργία την Πέμπτη 21 Σεπτεμβρίου για να διαμαρτυρηθεί για τις δυσμενείς αλλαγές που φέρνει το Εργασιακό Νομοσχέδιο το οποίο "αποτελειώνει ότι έμεινε από το οκτάωρο,...

  • Κοινωνικός Τουρισμός: Δωρεάν χειμερινές διακοπές σε καταλύματα του Μητρώου Παρόχων της Δημόσιας Υπηρεσίας Απασχόλησης (ΔΥΠΑ)

    Δωρεάν διαμονή μέχρι 6 ημέρες, παρέχεται σε διάφορες περιοχές. Ειδικά για καταλύματα σε Λέρο, Λέσβο, Χίο, Κω και στο νομό Έβρου μπορούν να πραγματοποιηθούν έως 10 δωρεάν διανυκτερεύσεις, και έως 12 διανυκτερεύσεις σε καταλύματα της Ρόδου, Β. Εύβοιας...

  • say NO to golf in arid Crete

    As discussed in an earlier issue of our e-Magazine, a pharaonic plan to develop a vast golf & villa complex in one of the last remaining wilderness areas of Crete is meeting with stiff opposition, with a legal case to be considered by Greece's High...

  • Birdwatchers' Paradise: Axios Delta National Park, near Thessaloniki, Greece

    For visitors to Thessaloniki, a densely populated city brimming with cultural treasures, it is always a pleasant surprise to learn about natural treasures nearby, such as the Axios Delta National Park, located just 25 km from the city's centre,...

  • Highlights of Nikki Rose/Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Study Tour in Crete, Greece

    Greetings from Crete, Slideshow highlights of one of our annual Accredited Study Tours for teachers and students from University of Missouri. CCS Photos on Flickr

  • Nikki Rose in TV Series - cuisine and ecotourism in Crete, Greece

    Greetings, On the air now from Washington DC, a 2-part public TV program with guest chef-instructor and ecotourism director, Nikki Rose from Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Network. Discussion about Crete's culture, cuisine and Responsible Travel...

  • Green Project Africa Photo Exhibition opens in Athens, Greece

    Athens, 19 November 2010 Within the framework of the central exhibition programme "Under the Bridge" of the Athens Photo Festival 2010, which takes place at the Esplanade Building (next to Tae Kwon Do Court) Faliron Olympic Complex, the exhibition of...

  • ECLIPSE, the 7th Athens Biennale, on until November 28, 2021

    The 7th Athens Biennale, titled "ECLIPSE" is currently taking place in the historic centre of Athens featuring local as well as well-known international artists, many of whom are exhibiting in Greece for the first time. It is co-curated by Omsk Social...

  • Ministerial decision allows 9,261 employees from non-EU countries to work in catering and accommodation

    The ministerial decision published on April 4, 2023 triples the number of permits issued in 2022 but is a tenth of the number requested by employers. The total number of permits for all sectors is 167,925, of which 20,000 are covered by bilateral...

  • A Chef's Role in Sustainable Initiatives

    Greetings,It's great to have an opportunity to discuss the diminishing quality of our food sources and a chef's integral role in supporting sustainable foodways. As well-informed spokespeople about the crucial issues impacting our safe food sources,...

  • Responsible Travel Workshop in Crete Press Release

    Crete, Greece, August 27, 2009: Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries, the award-winning educational travel program noted for best practices in Responsible Travel, will offer a blueprint for implementing similar programs from October 11-18, 2009, for...

  • Are Museums for the Museum?

    In an article entitled "Return of antiquities hitting grave robbers in bankbook" The Los Angeles Times reports the return by NY Met Museum of Art to the Italian authorities, of a greek 2,500 year old wine mixing bowl and 20 other items stolen by tomb...

  • over the top

    the impending decision of the greek minister of culture, to demolish two beautiful, officially preserved, art deco buildings on the pedestrian street below the Acropolis, so that the visitors to the new (expected to open in late 2007) Acropolis Museum,...

  • reviving old monuments...

    May 4th: This morning bemused tourists wishing to visit the Acropolis were met with a giant banner complete with hammer & sickle asking the Peoples of Europe to Rise Up. It was the first day of a two day strike called by the public sector unions in...

  • "Islands for Sale"

    The Guardian reports (or advertises?) that the Greek government plans to sell off state-owned land in some well-known resort islands such as Mykonos, and even entire islands, under pressure from the IMF and the EU. It is indeed tragic that our -...

  • World Environment Day 2013

    On this years World Environment Day it is becoming clearer, through a wide range of developments ranging from the violently suppressed ecological protests in Istanbul, the popular anti-gold / anti-multinational mining campaign in the forest of...

  • Mediterranean Spring

    To all our southern neighbours, rising up for freedom and justice, with whom we share so much and the deep blue Mediterranean sea: the last poem by Yiorgos Seferis (Nobel 1963), written during another Spring 40 years ago, when Greece was under a...

  • 99%: now the world!

    A very interesting video on the 99% movement presenting the underlying income inequality statistics can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation. The Vision of Humanity website also has very...

  • an athenian autumn

    While international tourist arrivals are falling for a second consecutive year and accommodation rates slashed to bargain levels, the government’s neoliberal agenda includes the long-lease of at least 40 “uninhabited” islands for “tourism development”...

  • Excursions Without Excuses at the World Travel Market

    The World Travel Market 2012 kicked off on Monday. It’s a leading global event in the tourist sector and a place for folk in the travel sector to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business. Tomorrow the spotlight is on Responsible Tourism and Gavin...

  • A century of peaceful revolutions from below?

    While (and perhaps because) geopolitics are getting messier each year in the post cold war era, it is the grassroots, empowered and emancipated by information and communications improvements that may take humanity a long way forward during this...

  • Ikaria: Blue, Red and Green

    The Greek island of Ikaria, (or Icaria, after Icarus) is famously one of the planet's 5 blue zones, with one of the world’s greatest life expectancy, and the lowest rates of middle-age mortality and dementia. Less known outside Greece is the fact that...

  • Our Heritage Protectors Documentary Funding Campaign Launched

    Greetings from Crete, Greece! We are in production of our documentary, Heritage Protectors, where we meet with organic farmers, agroecologists, botanists, archaeologists, and toxicologists to share crucial information about agricultural practices today...

  • A hike to Zarzi stone bridge, near Vytina, Arcadia

    Greece, and particularly Epirus and the Peloponnese, is dotted with magnificent old stone-arched bridges, built and rebuilt during Byzantine, Ottoman and early modern Greek eras, the oldest being a 4,000-year-old Mycenaean bridge (Arkadiko) linking...

  • Universities offering Tourism-related PhD programmes

    Tourism is slowly being recognised as a serious academic discipline. The following is draft list based on various online sources and an original list compiled by the Trinet community. Please help us to keep it updated and to expand it! Australia Edith...

  • Visa Information by Country

    ArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBarbadosBelgiumBelizeBotswanaBrazilCanadaChileChinaColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaDenmarkDominican RepublicEcuador EgyptEstoniaFijiFranceGermany Greece Grenada Guatemala India...

  • ECOCLUB.com News - June 2010

    ecoclub.com/news june 2010 Editorial On World Environment Day: While economic leaders and their "corporately responsible" pr posse are marking one more 'world' day with crocodile tears and new greenwashing recipes, fewer and fewer believe them, amid...

  • ECOCLUB.com Highlights - November 2010

    ECOCLUB.com Highlights November 2010 ECOCLUB.com Menu Community Country Guides Eco Directory News Member Releases Blogs Articles Jobs Grants Events Contact Join Twitter news Green Project Africa Photo Exhibition opens in Athens, Greece Planeterra taps...

  • ECOCLUB.com Highlights - January 2011

    ECOCLUB.com Highlights January 2011 ECOCLUB.com community projects completed, reports published online The three community projects in Nepal, Chile and Colombia, chosen by our Members in the context of the ECOCLUB.com Awards 2010, have been fully...

  • ECOCLUB.com Highlights - March 2011

    ECOCLUB.com Highlights March 2011 news 5th ECOCLUB.com Photo Essay Competition – “Reducing Water Waste in Tourism” - March 10 Deadline Global Sustainable Ecotourism Development Seminar at the University of Vermont, May 23-27, 2011 Top 10 Bloggers...

  • Interview: Raoul Bianchi, Principal Lecturer in Tourism & Leisure, University of East London

    "The 2008 financial crisis and ensuing sovereign debt crisis, which has engulfed leading tourism economies such as Spain, Portugal and of course Greece, demonstrates both the precariousness of an economic model built on the shifting sands of...

  • ECOCLUB.com Highlighs - May 2011

    ECOCLUB.com Highlights May 2011 headlines ECOCLUB.com Awards 2011 - Call for Projects - Deadline June 10 Support Japan Ecolodge Association's Tsunami Relief Fund Upcoming International Travelers’ Philanthropy Conference Attracts High Profile Speakers...

  • NGO Partnerships in Using Ecotourism for Conservation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    By Tania P. Romero-Brito, {tip content="Affiliations: Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland,...

  • Bilbao, Grenoble, Lilienthal, and Mönchengladbach win European sustainable mobility awards

    Brussels, Belgium, 19 April 2021 - The European Commission today announced the winners of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards 2020, the 9th Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP Award) and the EU Urban Road Safety Award. Mönchengladbach...

  • Are there sea turtle-friendly hotels in northern Crete?

    World Tourism Day 2023 finds ARCHELON, the sea turtle protection society of Greece, implementing together with TUI Care Foundation an innovative idea on the northern coasts of Crete: the "TUI Turtle-Friendly", a pilot certification for sea...

  • 7000-bed development project in Eastern Crete

    Sharing a message received from: Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham authors of "The making of the Cretan landscape", 1996 / "I Dimiourghia tou Kritikou Topiou", 2004Synopsis: Detailed information about the Cavo Sidero golf resort plans for Eastern Crete...

  • Scholarships for October Seminar in Crete

    Greetings,Scholarships are available for Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Seminar Series: Cuisine from the Ground Up, focus on traditional, sustainable foodwaysOctober 12 - 18, 2008, Crete, Greece. An accredited program for professionals from the...

  • A merry Cronia everyone - Religions & Recycling

    The Kronia (or Cronia) was a very ancient greek festival in honor of Kronos (Cronus) and Rhea, adopted by the Romans in the 5th century BCE as Saturnalia (Saturn = Kronos) and much later by the Christians as Christmas. (Early Christians established...

  • never on Sunday...

    So, it had to be a Monday, late Monday, yesterday when Jules Dassin quietly passed away at the age of 96 in Athens after a short illness. Blacklisted by McCarthy's HUAC, but listed forever in the hearts of Athenians, for his 1967-1974 campaign for the...

  • actually existing surrealism

    BBC reports a quite surreal campaign by a publisher of a history magazine to change the name of the "Gay & Lesbian Community of Greece" on the grounds that the name 'offends' the inhabitants of the greek island of Lesbos. If successful he then wants to...

  • Gunter Wallraff, the Human

    Gunter Wallraf, father of undercover journalism, defender of human rights and immigrant rights, now turns his sights against supermarket chains and exposes the dark side of consumerism.See the video:http://www.zeit.de/2008/19/Wallraff-19This Giant was...

  • green's house effects

    As the old adage goes tourism is like fire, it can cook your food, or it can burn your house down.But it was not tourism, but probably pro-mining interests, that burned down the house of eco activist Stefanos Kollias in the village of Kaloskopi in the...

  • Union leader alleges greek hotel 'trainees' living 'like animals'

    In today's Avgi newspaper, the president of the Greek Federation of Catering & Tourist Industry Employees (POEE-YTE) Leonidas Karathanassis, blasts the growing exploitation of tourism student trainees by large hotels and the displacement of hotel...

  • Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Seminar Highlights Video

    Highlights of our 12 years of work in sustainable community-based tourism in Crete, Greece. CCS is an award-winning program for best practices in responsible travel. See our website details. Note: This video is not a film or documentary. It is...

  • Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Seminar Celebrating Biodiversity

    May 2-8, 2011, Crete Greece A 6-day interactive educational program for enthusiasts of archaeology, nature, traditional organic agriculture and cuisine. Explore Crete's cultural and natural treasures with resident specialists. A great opportunity to...

  • island holiday...

    "Invisible wall" a short documentary about tourists, refugees and immigrants in Agathonissi, Greece, a tiny, formerly sleepy, island close to the Turkish coast.

  • on the british riots

    Remembering the way tabloids were treating Athens in the run up to the 2004 Olympics (which always are, like all mega-events, a mega-waste) a certain schadenfreude could be expected from Athenians, but on the contrary they feel a sense of solidarity...

  • CCS Mentioned in National Geographic Traveler

    Tales from the Frontier, "Out of the Chaos" By Costas Christ, from the May 2012 issue Story on Greek Tourism http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/tales-from-the-frontier/greece/

  • IUCN Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism test tours

    It was a great pleasure to participate in the IUCN Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism – MEET test tours in Karpathos, Greece. I wish them all the best on their important initiatives to celebrate and help protect our cultural and natural heritage....

  • Responsible Tourism Week Hangout with our Editor & Members

    It was great discussing responsible travel prospects in Greece, Estonia, Malaysia and the United States in a live hangout hosted by Ron Mader and with the participation of Ecoclub Members Natali Dologlou, Aivar Ruukel, Sudipta Kiran Sarkar and Chris...

  • Rosmarinus Officinalis

    Beautiful short film by Andreas Siadimas celebrating local environmental knowledge and genuine hospitality in Crete, Greece.

  • Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries featured in IFOAM Organics Europe

    Greetings, Our project is highlighted in the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements - IFOAM Organic Europe's "Leading by Example" Initiative! We are honored to participate in this important initiative and to share information from...

  • Soup and Talk 2021 Event, with presentation by Nikki Rose of CCS

    I am honored and excited to participate in the 16 January Soup and Talk event! I'll be sharing information about our work here in Crete, Greece about ways to collaborate with organic farmers on action programs to increase awareness of their crucial work...

  • People are the key to a unique hospitality experience

    Watch this incredible video from the Region of Crete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A40iNV_e7DU This video praises not only the natural beauty of Greece but also the beauty of Greeks. The beauty of hospitality that comes out of us as an instinct, as...

  • EU: "Ecotourism ideal for job generation under Green New Deal" - MEP Michael Cramer

    24 April 2009 - Athens, Greece Michael Cramer, Member of the European Parliament for the European Green Party, recently visited the border region between Greece Bulgaria and Turkey to launch an ecotourism initiative called the “Iron Curtain...

  • Building Sustainability in EU Tourism at GTSC European Regional Meeting on Nov. 23-­24

    Join us at the GTSC European Regional Meeting in Athens, Greece, on November 23­-24 to learn from founders, Directors, and CEOs on how to best manage your destination or enterprise following sustainable tourism standards. You will learn how to: ●...

  • Restoration of Plaka Bridge wins Europa Nostra Award

    Plaka Bridge in Epirus, built in 1866 over the river Arachthos, is one of the largest single arched stone-bridges in Southern Europe, and a key entry point to Greece until 1913. The bridge, a historical monument, collapsed after heavy rainfall in...

  • Protecting the Loggerhead Turtle in Zakynthos

    Earth Sea and Sky 2013 - PRESERVE, RESCUE and INFORM - With the help of the Sea Life Centres in England we have taken many steps to save the Loggerhead Turtles and Marine Life of Zakynthos. We want to preserve this very special and rare animal so our...

  • Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries 2013 Seminar Update

    Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries 2013 Seminar Update: Our Study Away Program for Missouri State University is full. Registration is now closed. There are a few spaces left for our accredited study tour for the University of Missouri and our fantastic open...

  • ΠΟΕΕΤ - Αναπλήρωση του μισθού των εργαζομένων στον Τουρισμό, όχι σε μέτρα ασπιρίνες - POEET: Government Measures are a Sticking Plaster

    Οι εργαζόμενοι στον Τουρισμό-Εστίαση δίκαια ζητούν στήριξη και αναπλήρωση του μισθού τους, όπως συμβαίνει σε Ευρωπαϊκές χώρες με τον ίδιο πληθυσμό και τα ίδια οικονομικά δεδομένα. Ο Τουρισμός στήριξε τη χώρα την περίοδο της οικονομικής κρίσης, τώρα...

  • Zagori Villages officially submitted for inclusion UNESCO World Heritage List as a Cultural Landscape

    Zagorochória, the 46 villages of the famous Zagori area of Epirus around Vikos Gorge, is Greece's first candidacy for inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage Cultural Landscapes List, which celebrates the 'combined works of nature and of man'. The...

  • Crete: Mega-resort plans in Falasarna protected area approved by regional environment committee

    Despite objections by Greece's Natural Environment & Climate Change Agency (ΟΦΥΠΕΚΑ) and the Municipality of Kissamos, the Environment Committee of the Region of Crete approved by a 13-2 majority a plan by the Tsatsaronaki group to build a 850-bed...

  • Court orders the demolition of two top floors of newly-built Athens hotel

    Greece's highest administrative court has ordered the Municipality of Athens to proceed with the demolition of the two top floors of Coco-Mat Athens BC Hotel for exceeding maximum height regulations in the increasingly gentrified area of Koukaki,...

  • Messinia's Neda Gorge to be classified as a protected landscape

    The Ministry of Environment and Energy, in a decision delayed by decades, announced that the land and water areas of the 31km long Neda river gorge will be finally classified as a Protected Landscape and a Protected Natural Formation, following a study...

  • Ecoclub | Eco Travel Business Services

    Our Services Professional Membership: A unique, free, information, networking and support package for progressive ecological tourism & hospitality practitioners, academics and jobseekers Ecoclub Ecolodge™: A genuine Recognition for genuine Ecolodges™...

  • RoyalCert is now GSTC-Accredited

    The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) is pleased to announce that RoyalCert has gained the GSTC-Accredited Certification Body status. RoyalCert is an International certification body with HeadQuarters in Germany and operating in +40 countries...

  • summer dreams, free hotels

    The Mediterranean, sunny climate gives plenty of opportunity for a philosophical mood, especially in the early part of a summer afternoon, after a glass of vino, which as we all know contains veritas - particularly the red variety. So, I was...

  • Thanassis of the Kalash

    Thanassis Lerounis, a greek teacher and lone volunteer, selflessly and tirelessly working for over 15 years with the famous Kalash people in the Chitral area of Northern Pakistan (2,500 m. asl), was abducted, allegedly by Afghan Taliban in September...

  • we are all immigrants

    A ghost is again floating over Europe, the ghost of racism! From the recent electoral far-right breakthrough (6%) in the former poster child of social democracy, Sweden to blackshirt vigilantism in the Italian South, to Vienna municipal elections, to...

  • Global Trends on responsible travel in 2012 for French tourists

    Survey – Global Trends on responsible travel in 2012 for French tourists Which trendy destinations? What kind of activities? What kind of lodging? ----------- The French association Acteurs du Tourisme Durable (ATD), gathering the majority of French...

  • Some thoughts on the question of Community Ownership in Tourism.

    Determining what an ideal situation or solution (or ultimate goal) could be in every real-world problematic situation is not a utopian exercise but, on the contrary, it is a useful rule of thumb: to evaluate how far we are from achieving the goal, how...

  • New Release The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy

    New Release The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy Edited by Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, and Clare Hindley Preface by Roberto Flore, Nordic Food Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415702553/ The...

  • Are motorhomes an eco, responsible way to travel?

    As usual, it basically depends on one’s own attitude. To start with, follow the basic “Leave No Trace” rules, pay attention to any special limitations of the place you visit (e.g national park), respect local culture, and shop locally. Energy (and...

  • Oil pollution, mega-projects and the Athens coastline

    An environmental disaster of yet unknown proportions is unfolding in the Gulf of Athens, known as the Saronic Gulf, following the peculiarly rapid sinking under calm seas, of an ageing, small oil tanker carrying 2,200 tons of fuel oil and 370 metric...

  • Ears have Walls, Walls have Ears

    In early versions of Sid Meier's classic strategy game 'Civilisation', the discovery of gunpowder made Walls obsolete. It was far more gradual in reality, but Walls did eventually become obsolete as defensive structures and those that escaped...

  • Sharing Economy Uplifts Downtown Athens

    Much-maligned by a small but vocal anti(over)tourism fringe and misguided hoteliers, Airbnb (and copycat platforms, imitation being the most sincere form of flattery) have single-handedly changed Tourism for ever. They have democratised it, spreading...

  • Bread, Education, Liberty and Health!

    Yesterday was one more anniversary, the 48th, of the November 17th, 1973 Athens Polytechnic students' uprising against the military Junta of 1967-1974. The key demands of the students back then were the triptych "Bread, Education, Liberty". 47 years...

  • Ryanair attacks Fraport 'monopoly', pre-announces Athens base closure for winter - Η Ryanair επιτίθεται στο 'μονοπώλιο' της Fraport, προαναγγείλει κλείσιμο της βάσης της στην Αθήνα για το χειμώνα

    In a new installment of its long-running antagonism with Greek airports operator Fraport, and its supposed high passenger fees (12 Euros per passenger), Ryanair announced its decision to in effect reduce winter flights to and from Athens as it failed...

  • In the Time of Crisis, the need for a Social Ecotourism - ECOCLUB.com Director

    Athens, Greece – 20 March 2009 "The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each...

  • The emerging global campaign against mega-resorts and real estate developments

    10 April 2009 - Athens, Greece A new campaign entitled "Global Action Programme to stop irresponsible mega-resort and real estate developments" is being coordinated by two NGOs, The Tourism Investigation & Monitoring Team (tim-team) of Bangkok Thailand,...

  • ECOCLUB.com Ecotourism Awards 2009 - Call for Projects Now Open

    16 April 2009 - Athens, Greece Each year, on the 1st of July, to celebrate its founding anniversary ECOCLUB - International Ecotourism Club allocates at least 10% of the previous year’s Membership Fees and ecoproduct sales to fund micro-projects...


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