There are two things about travelling that are hard: doing it on a budget and doing it in an eco-friendly way. Modern day travelling, by nature, has an impact on the environment – usually it involves flying or driving to destinations and staying in hotels which often choose convenience over the environment. This is understandable, when it can often be more expensive to act in an eco-friendly way.
However, it is becoming easier and easier to travel responsibly, as the issue gets more prominence in the public eye. Although people say that tourism often destroys destinations in need of preservation, often that’s actually not the case. The areas need tourism in order to fund their upkeep and sustainability – and as long as people act responsibly, they can be maintained for generations to come.
Whilst it is becoming easier to travel sustainably, it is undeniably expensive. But this January, we have the perfect solution, to tickle some travelling taste buds whilst helping you to save money. The Destination Guide to Loving Your January Blues flips the idea of the January Blues on its head and showcases some of the best blue inspired destinations in the world, with tips on how to travel to them and discount codes for booking them.
With the potential to save considerably on your holiday booking, acting in an eco-friendly way while out there might be a little easier, with that little bit of spare holiday budget to spend. Whilst choosing whether it’s the Blue Lagoon you fancy visiting, or the Blue Mountains in Australia, it might be worth researching into eco-friendly places to stay and places to visit as well.
It’s the small changes we make in our day to day lives that help conservation efforts and saving money here and there – on things you might not otherwise have saved on, like flights to your next holiday destination – that really make the difference in enabling us to act more responsibly towards the environment.
Discouraging people from travel is definitely not the answer – encouraging sustainable travel definitely is. And if that means helping people out with some savings here and there, to ensure they can pocket the extra cost of sustainable tourism, then it seems like a good step forward.
To explore the destinations the guide has to offer, click here.
