All eyes are on Virgin Galactic and its space tourism endeavors. Richard Branson, with his usual panache, seems to have his hands on a pot of gold, since there are no competitors at all. In addition, Virgin Galactic has already roped in close to four hundred bookings for tickets. Tickets that come for $ 200 000 (£ 125, 000) for a flight that could take close to two years in the making. The airfield and research center for Virgin Galactic is situated in the middle of Mojave Desert, New Mexico, located about hundred miles from Los Angeles. The site is all of five thousand acres, and the air space used is not shared by commercial vehicles, since there is the White Sands Missile testing facility close by. The terminal was designed ecologically to blend with the environment by Norman Foster. The  [...]

Well just think about it, just for a day everybody on this planet decide not to leave their homes or not to travel, or use any man made means of transport. Well the consequence could be un-imaginable, the global economy could collapse in a day, and people could starve as food will not reach them, travel companies such as airline, train, and buses, could go bankrupt. Currently it is impossible to imaging life without transportation or travel, each day we travel to our work by various means of transport, or we travel by air for holidays and many more. It is hard to imagine life without travel; travel is one of the largest global industries. Humans have been traveling for hundreds of years, and each year new luxury, powerful and sophisticated transport vehicle is launched, currently there are  [...]

The world today is a greedy one, with people looking for benefits in the most uncanny of places. There is a mad rush wherever people are able to get more out of a single object or one move. This unfortunately, over an elongated period, has led to disastrous ends, with the world, today being little more than a shadow of what it used to be about two hundred years ago. One such disaster man seemed hell bent on imposing upon himself was to let vehicles become such an integral part of his life, that today, he is dying because of the toxic fumes that it leaks out. Another disaster that could have been averted was that of unchecked industry. There is almost no necessity to spell out how industries around the world, impact our lives today, However, this picture does not need to remain this bland,  [...]

There is talk all over the world about the effect of man’s destructive ways on nature in the last one hundred years, especially in the latter fifty years or so. The environment has undergone major changes in the last five decades or so, with the introduction of more and more toxic substances by the day. Moreover, these toxic substances take hundreds of years to disintegrate, and as such lead to the addition of more waste and clutter. The amount of greenhouse gases that are let out into the world today is a scary statistic, with more and more vehicles and industries growing by the day. There is however, no option, but to find the positive in this negative: Planet Earth is the only planet capable enough of sustaining life of any kind, be it simple or complex. If we do not take up steps to help  [...]

Do you often have the urge to leave the comforts (or troubles) of city life and experience nature at its supreme best? Is traveling without causing too much damage to the environment a concern for you? Or, better still, do you wish to experience a different habitat without causing it to suffer any harm? If your answer to the above questions it yes, then its probably time you got information about Ecotourism and how you could be a part of this global phenomenon. Along the span of time, environmentally and socially responsible practices, which were once the hallmark of just a few jungle lodges and safari operators, have now become a tipping point where sustainable tourism practices are being more widely practiced across the scope of the global travel industry. Ecotourism has become one of  [...]