Five Ways You Can Teach Your Grandchildren About Sustainable Travel
1 min readAs good travellers, we can teach our grandchildren how to make good decisions about the Earth when they travel.
The post Five Ways You Can Teach Your Grandchildren About Sustainable Travel appeared first on JourneyWoman.
Five things we can do as teachers and role models
Travel has its own environmental issues, of course, but if we travel, it is important to seek out sustainable and best practices in the countries we visit. Showing our grandkids how other cultures and industries work to retain as much of the earth’s balance as we feasibly can, will have long term impacts on their thinking and future travel plans.
A new Booking.com survey reveals that 70% of Canadian travellers want to travel more sustainably over the next 12 months. In fact, 40% of them would actually feel guilty making less sustainable travel choices. We do believe it is the right thing to do. Now to act on it.
1. Walk instead of taking a car
Walking is in fact something we can do, instead of driving a car, while we talk about how great it is to be out in nature, and how we can preserve what we have today. When we travel, we can also encourage use of public transit rather than taxis.
