Month: October 2019

How to Fall in Love with Eco-Packing

The World is Divided (By Plastic) You’ve heard about the Summer of Love. Well, 2018 is set to go down, according to the Wall Street Journal, as the “summer of the plastic-straw ban.” That’s because last month, Seattle became the first US city to ban plastic straws. San Francisco soon followed. The Queen of England, too. Now companies like Marriott, Starbucks and Anatara Resorts are phasing out the little plastic…

Why the Travel Industry Needs More B Corps

Travel has truly transformed me and in 20 years in the industry, working across all seven continents, I’ve seen what travel can do to help and protect the places we visit, but also how it can hurt or even destroy them. And the stakes are only getting higher. Over the next decade, as the world begins to bounce back from the pandemic, the volume of global travelers is expected to…