Tourism itself is not necessarily ecologically-friendly as it involves a lot of transportation which is definitely stressful for the natural environment. At the same time, tourism is connected to a large amount of garbage, unnecessary entertainment dangerous for the natural environment as well as enforcing practices of killing animals and plants for the sake of creating a massive amount of souvenirs.
Still, there is no point in resigning from travelling since this is one of the most rewarding activities you can get saving money by refusing to buy various goods that you actually do not need. We have already discussed this topic, however, there are still a couple of suggestions you should take into consideration in order to make your travelling experience more ecologically-friendly.
Travel with respect to the natural environment
One of the major problems in the human’s psychology is connected to the fact people tend to forget all of their strong principles when they are far away from home. Somehow, the idea of being in a new place where one is a complete stranger makes the feeling of responsibility fade away. Indeed, it is a way easier to commit a crime somewhere where you are not going to come back ever again.
There is no need to explain how dangerous such an attitude is.
In addition to it, many people tend to feel as if they owned the place because they have paid for it. This can be easily noticed in the hotels serving all-inclusive meal plans. Some of these hotels even have to officially ask their guests to be very careful while choosing food in order to avoid situations in which entire plates with products are thrown away because guests wanted to taste just a spoonful and loaded an entire kilogramme of a dish on their plate.
Needless to say, such behaviour is extremely dangerous for the natural environment and as a conscious tourist, you are certainly not going to repeat these popular mistakes.
Save resources
Another suggestion is for the resource management. No matter how fine it will seem to you to keep the light on or a water tape opened for as long as you want since you do not have to pay for it, it does not mean you should actually do it.
Everyone should take care of the natural resources even if you can use as much of them as you want without extra payments.
Refuse from ecologically-unfriendly entertainment
Presumably, various forms of entertainment that are potentially harmful for the natural environment are a way more popular than exotic dishes made of the animals on the verge of extinction. Many people who are actually conscious of their responsibility for the safety of the natural environment are not aware of some of these actions being so disruptive for the natural ecosystems.
For example, you can easily avoid zoos especially the ones which have already been recognised as the zoos of death because of the unbearable conditions for animals people have created there. You certainly do not want to contribute to the development of such business and definitely do not want to visit them with your children.
There are many other such activities starting from downward appalling traditions of some communities such as massive killing whales and black dolphins to less apparent ones such as diving in the areas filled with coral reefs.
It is not thus difficult to make a great plan for your trip without participation in such awful actions.