Travelling in an eco-responsible way is not an easy task. How can you take care of the planet while getting away from it all? In this article, we look at how to reduce your ecological footprint while travelling abroad. In this article, we look at the best ways to reduce your ecological footprint when travelling. We offer you a list of our 10 simple gestures that will turn your trip into an eco-responsible recreational tour.

Pack your towel in your suitcase.

Choose a cotton towel, with a long pile size of 0.50 x 1 m. It will be your friend after your bath and possible swimming. Bringing your own towel on your trip means you don’t have to use the ones at the hotel and you can save a lot of water. If you are travelling for several weeks, and are worried about hygiene risks, you could wash your own towel and dry it outside, this usually takes 1-2 days.

Choose the right clothes for your trip: organise yourself efficiently.

To reduce your ecological footprint, the choice of clothing is very important when travelling. To make sure you don’t make unnecessary purchases on the spot, or leave clothes behind because of clutter, make sure you have the most suitable essentials. Travelling with a pair of synthetic clothes .

For your travels, favour common means of transport.

Transport when travelling is a major source of pollution. Choosing your means of transport is a choice that has an impact on your trip, so choosing an appropriate means of travel is essential. Our advice when travelling abroad is to use the most commonly used means of transport. Whether it’s a rental or public transport. This is counter-intuitive, but it reduces the hourly cost of your trip and therefore its ecological impact. It also reduces the strain of traffic and decreases the biggest vector of pollutant emissions. Figures show that the trip itself is not the most polluting part of a trip abroad. Therefore, this choice allows you to keep your focus on the most polluting element.

Choose your plane tickets.

Studies show that air travel is the most polluting part of your trip. Most of the pollution is due to air pollution, so to reduce your ecological footprint when travelling by plane, favour flights with fewer stopovers. This may cost you more, but it will greatly reduce the amount of paraffin used to travel. For your bookings, think about doing so in advance and otherwise shift the dates.

Travel in groups.

Less intuitive than the previous recommendations, travelling with several people allows you to greatly reduce your ecological footprint: on average, people travel between 8 times abroad. This figure fluctuates, but travel has always been a part of human activity, as the figures show. For this reason, travelling together is an important part of making your trip less environmentally damaging. In addition, it helps to reduce the food waste associated with ordering food when travelling, so it helps to make your travel experience better, more intense and more impactful.

Get into good habits when staying in a hotel.

Close your room every other day for cleaning and storage. Save your battery when charging, opt for local, more exotic and recreational food that costs less in energy costs. Choose an eco-responsible accommodation, we redirect you to an article that mentions this subject.

Taking good habits at the hotel is a smart thing to do, it’s the little things you do on a daily basis during your trip that will help you increase your positive impact.

When shopping for pre-trip items, do the right thing.

For your pre-trip purchases, buy green brands for your sprays, gels and walking gear. For clothing, you can buy green brands, second-hand clothes, or sportswear. Because the manufacture and cost of your clothes is an important factor in its ecological impact.

Do the right thing in every place you visit, be an ambassador of good manners.

An important part of making your trip an eco-friendly trip is to become a real ambassador for the planet. If you see rubbish thrown away by other tourists in the places you visit, your mission is to take it back to the bin. Also if you see places with a high energy or ecological waste your mission is to point out to the person responsible.
This ambassadorial mission is an ongoing mission and it is what will most impact your stay as an eco-responsible tour. Talking to people is of the utmost importance.

During your meals, ask to reduce your ecological impact.

During your meals here are some techniques that will certainly help you reduce your ecological impact. When you have breakfast, ask to remove the straw from your fruit juice, do it the day before to preserve the sea turtles. If you are not a big fan of butter you can also ask not to have any during your stay.
If you order a steak or an exotic dish make sure you mention the cooking of your dish and your allergies to avoid food waste. When it comes to catering, vegetarian choices are better for the planet than meat dishes, so take note.

Studies show that the world’s population and global warming are correlated, that’s a given. In the article we try to show you what you can do to reduce your ecological impact when travelling. The bottom line for us is to combine conservation of the planet and tourism.
Figures also show that tourism is responsible for 5% of the world’s pollution. This means that reducing the impact of tourism on the environment can have a 5% impact on global pollution.

The count of conserved places also shows that conserved and visited places are real sources of biotope for the environment. Natural sites are sources of resources and exploitation of living organisms. By visiting them, we offer them a chance to be conserved.

Ecology is a hot topic, each state is aware of the size of the subject, (the budget allocated to ecology is nearly 718 billion dollars in the United States and Europe) and it is in this spirit that we have written this article as a “premium green magazine”. For if tourism contributes 5% to global air pollution, the GHG predicts a 154% to 131% increase in tourism-related energy consumption.

Conducting tourism in an eco-responsible manner can direct its development towards a much lower energy consumption. Also, making it a magazine allows us to exploit the planet without the inconvenience of seeing foreigners walking around on our land.