The Great White House…
It can be amazing how many people don’t look up when they walk into the Great White House. So when they do, you can see the surprise on their...
edition 4 – 2015
Welcome to another DIGITAL edition of Responsible Traveller… This edition is about celebrating people & places! I love to travel, to see new places and to meet new people....
Green Star SA’s first 6 Star Rated Hotel – Hotel Verde in Cape Town
Hotel Verde was awarded the highest accolade of a 6 Star rating in the Green Star SA Existing Building Performance tool with 82 points, a first for a hotel...
Winners of the 2015 Dubai Green Tourism Awards
As part of the Dubai Green Tourism Awards, the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) recently recognised 10 hotels and tourism businesses in the emirate for their environmental...
April / May 2015
Welcome to another DIGITAL edition of Responsible Traveller… What an awesome continent Africa is! Wonderful wildlife, wonderful places and wonderful people – this edition gets to celebrate the winners...
Verde Hotels – Africa’s first sustainable hotel management group
Nobody can deny that climate change will affect the hospitality market place – with global warming, resource volatility, extreme weather events, water scarcity and biodiversity loss part of our...
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway committed to sustainability
As a responsible tourism destination, the Table Mountain Cableway focuses on the three pillars of responsible tourism – environmental, social and economic responsibility. Environmental Responsibility: In order to protect...
The tradition of coffee at the Dubai Coffee Museum
Drinking coffee is integral to Arabic traditions of hospitality, and there is no better place to discover this than at the Coffee Museum in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historical District....
Dubai – SMCCU is a must do cultural experience
A great way to start a visit to Dubai is at the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding (SMCCU) located in the historic Al Fahidi District in Bur Dubai. ...
Shopping in Dubai
Dubai offers a number of shopping options, from glitzy shopping malls to the traditional souks, both offering merchandise from around the world to be carefully considered (or haggled over)...