We visited Turkey for a few days. We chose to stay in an independent hotel in the centre of Antalya. In our bathroom, there was a note saying 'to save our environment, please try and use your towels more than one day. If you wish to have a clean towel, please place used towels in your shower tray'.
I thought this was a great ecotourism initiative. We followed the iınstructions but unfortunately our towels were changed every day until we made a request to keep them. It was obvious that the staff were not aware of this practice.
How can we do our bit if travel organisations do not follow their own rules?
How can we turn green liviıng and ecotourism into a reality and not just into a box ticking exercise?
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Let me keep my towel to help save our planet!
1 comments:
This really bugs me as well. I have stayed in many hotels around the world and they have mostly all got on board with the idea about saving water and using less detergent by giving the customer the choice of changing towels or not.
So we go to the effort of reading their guidelines so they do not change our towels, go out for the day and come back to find our towels have been changed. I have also tried to talk to the people on reception about this but nothing changes.
What is the next step in trying to get these hotels to change ?
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