TITLE

Expedia offering green travel choice

AUTHOR(S)
Johnson, Jim
PUB. DATE
September 2006
SOURCE
Waste News;9/11/2006, Vol. 12 Issue 10, p17
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article focuses on the initiatives from Expedia Inc., an online travel agency, to remove the worries of air travelers about the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in their trips. Expedia has came together with TerraPass, a program that funds carbon offset projects, and offered the air travellers to purchase a TerraPass which will represent the reduction in greenhouse gas emission created by their air travel.
ACCESSION #
22427834

Tags: EXPEDIA Inc.;  AIR travelers;  ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects;  GREENHOUSE gases;  GREENHOUSE effect (Atmosphere);  VOYAGES & travels

 

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