Great guide- but take the trainApril 11, 2007 9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ethical Tourism, responsible travel, Fair Trade Travel what ever you want to call it is in its early days, but already it is showing that is capturing the imagination of people who want a more intense experience of world cultures and people as well as ensuring that the tourist pound is ending up in the pockets of the community visited and not some multinational tour operator or hotel chain.If you are going to travel the world The Ethical Travel Guide is a great route planner both to help you understand the cultures, environment of people as well as contribute the maximum while disturbing the minimum. It pulls out innovative / community tourist projects all over the world which will give the traveller a series of unique experiences of the culture, people and environment of the region.
The only poor area of the book is on air travel- the advice on the EU Carbon Trading scheme is just plain wrong- air travel is not included at the moment in the EU tarding scheme, nor does the scheme give money to carbon cutting schemes. All evidence is that plane travel is just plain bad for the planet- trains, boats and buses on the other hand let you see the world up close.
