Yay! The launch of a new overnight flat-bed sleeper bus service in Europe - between Amsterdam and Zurich, and Zurich and Barcelona. Rhiannon Batten reviews it in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Interesting new study on public support for 'degrowth' policies shows that reducing consumption might not be as unpopular as you think! Are we ready to confront the elephant in the room: our addiction to flying?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New! The Autumn issue of The Green Traveller e-mag has landed, packed with ideas for great trips, including hiking in Herefordshire, wildlife watching in Gran Canaria, island-hopping across the Ionian Islands & community-based conservation in Saint Lucia issuu.com/greentravell...
Is there really a future in green travel? I discuss this with
@simoncalder.bsky.social on his Independent Travel Podcast. We talked about family travel to Europe on Flixbus, and the opportunities that increased competition could create for the UK's rail network shows.acast.com/green-list-t...
Significant announcement from Intrepid regarding changes to its Climate Action Plan that will reverberate across the industry, incl "a new lifecycle target that takes full accountability of our total emissions, including customer flights to and from our trips" www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We travelled by FlixBus coach to the French Alps to hike a section of The Grand Tour de Tarentaise trail, which caters for both experienced hikers and first-timers, with cosy mountain refuges offering the perfect place to recharge www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Promotion for podcast with thumbnails of two women guests on the show
What is Community Tourism and how do you measure it? Find out in the latest episode of It's a Journey Podcast with guests Manisha Pande, MD of Village Ways in India, and Kelly Galaski, Head of Impact at the non-profit organisation Planeterra www.itsajourney.fm/podcast-epis...
Our latest newsletter is out with news of the new sustainable travel podcast co-hosted by Richard Hammond & Holly Tuppen, the cross-channel sail service attracting low carbon travellers, and Sweden's Göta Canal Trail is Awarded Cycle Route of the Year 2025 www.greentraveller.co.uk/so/6dPVFxRhD...
Just dropped! Thrilled to launch a new podcast — It’s a Journey: A sustainable travel podcast for the travel industry that I'm co-hosting with Holly Tuppen featuring guests from across and beyond the travel industry. Sponsored by Lemongrass www.itsajourney.fm
Home page of new online guide to Saint Lucia
Out now! Our Conservation Traveller's Guide to Saint Lucia with tips on characterful places to stay, where to find delicious locally inspired seasonal food, places of interest, and a wide range of community based low impact activities www.greentraveller.co.uk/conservation...
Coming soon... Conservation Traveller. In Saint Lucia 🌴 Filmed & produced by Green Traveller Media
My latest 60-sec interview with a prominent person in the travel industry, answering the question: "What is the one thing you'd change given the climate and nature emergencies?"
🙏 Bruce Poon Tip, founder of G Adventures
St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany, reports Charlotte Edwards for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man filming woman looking through binoculars at nature reserve
Why travel brands need to consider video marketing, post by me for Lemongrass PR's Insight series www.lemongrassmarketing.com/insights/vid...
Eurostar resumes direct trains from Amsterdam to London, with an early morning train added to the timetable, leaving at 6.40am and arriving in to London at 9.57am www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/euro...
Screen grab of home page of Green Traveller's Guide to Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwest France
Our featured destination this month is Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwest France. Explore Bordeaux (just 2 hours by high-speed train from Paris) and the stunning Dordogne Valley... see our tips for great restaurants, characterful places to stay, and much more! greentraveller.co.uk/nouvelle-aqu...
advert for rail sale 2025
The Big Rail Sale is back! Starts this Tuesday 14 Jan – make the most of up to half price discounts on over 2 million tickets for journeys made between 17 January and 31 March 2025 across Great Britain www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/rail-sa...
advert for rail sale 2025
The Big Rail Sale is back! Starts this Tuesday 14 Jan – make the most of up to half price discounts on over 2 million tickets for journeys made between 17 January and 31 March 2025 across Great Britain www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/rail-sa...
Introducing a new video series where I ask leading lights in the tourism industry to explain in less than 60 secs the one thing they'd change to address tourism's impact on the climate and nature emergencies. First up is Al Judge, founder of AliKats Mountain Holidays and President of Montagne Verte:
The back of three Flixbus coaches at Paris Bercy coach station
Flixbus - the budget, low-carbon, city-to-city transport revolution that is sweeping across Europe, dozens of them lined up here at Paris Bercy coach station as we made our way from London via Paris to Geneva en route to the Alps
exterior of London Victoria coach station
On a snowy adventure - taking the overnight Flixbus from
London Victoria to the French Alps - a low carbon route to the slopes
New low-cost, high-speed train connecting Barcelona to Malaga launches this Sunday. Tickets for the 5hr 50min trip are on offer from €22.20 one way www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/new-low...
Benidorm announced as European Green Pioneer of Smart Tourism 2025 smart-tourism-capital.ec.europa.eu/benidorm-202...
All aboard the train in Spain - article by Richard Hammond on how Spain is embracing the rail renaissance given the ‘open access’ liberalisation of the European rail network #WorldSustainableTransportDay www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/all-abo...
various dishes of food
A taste of some of the first class dining we had in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, from the Michelin-starred Zéphirine, Le Cent 33 – the first restaurant here to be given the EcoTable label, and Vivants (all in Bordeaux) to Restaurant l’Entrepote in Sarlat and Chez Paulo in Brive.
woman cycling along car free road
man cycling on car free path
signage for flow velo cycle route
Introducing the Flow Vélo – a new 400km cycle route from The Dordogne Valley to the Altantic Coast. We joined the route at Sarlat-la-Canéda from where it runs all the way to the island of Aix in Charente-Maritime through the beautiful towns of Cognac, Saintes and Rochefort
All aboard the train in Spain - article by me on how Spain is embracing the rail renaissance given the ‘open access’ liberalisation of the European rail network www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/all-abo...
signage at the entrance to the Darwin ecosystem in Bordeaux
smart decor inside the Darwin Ecosystem
artwork
two woman walking into the boulangerie at Darwin Ecosystem
Introducing the impressive 'Darwin Ecosystem', billed as "economically innovative and ecologically responsible", it's a former military barracks on an urban wasteland in the Bastide district on Bordeaux's right bank that's now a co-working hub and home to a huge organic bistro-dining hall
First Bus signs five-year partnership with Flixbus, boosting daily services across the South-West of England and expanding routes in northern cities including Leeds, Manchester, and Newcastle www.greentraveller.co.uk/post/firstbu...
man and woman sitting on a stone bench looking at a lake
This week we're reporting on our fabulous week in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, using trams and bikes to see the sights in Bordeaux for three days and then out by train and electric bike for a further three days in The Dordogne Valley #explorefrance #destinationNA
