Today’s session of the Gabfest Club (Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk) started with
a surprise visit of our Peace Corp friend Patrick. He greeted all the new comers
and told them about his projects in Ukraine.
The official topic of the session was World
Tourism Day. World Tourism Day (WTD) 2012 is being held under the theme Tourism
& Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development. Official celebrations took place in
Maspalomas, Spain on September 27.
This year’s theme aims to highlight tourism’s
role in a brighter energy future; a future in which the world’s entire
population has access to modern, efficient and affordable energy services.
Tourism today is at the forefront of some of
the world’s most ambitious and innovative clean energy solutions:
the aviation industry is implementing
cutting-edge technologies to make aircraft lighter than ever before;
commercial flights are beginning to use bio fuels
in their fuel mix;
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systems and energy saving light bulbs are increasingly being implemented in
hotel rooms worldwide;
tour
operators are asking for energy efficiency throughout their supply chains.
We have watched and discussed several videos about
hotels using green technologies. The most impressive was a row of videos about
the USA hotel chain MARRIOTT and its efforts to run sustainable hotels. The
details of eco technologies in all the hotel departments revealed new amazing
facts to the club members who do not travel much.
During the second part of the session the club
members combined their introductions with the brief stories about their summer
travels. The most surprising fact was that the new club member Eugene during
his Work & Travel trip to the USA was employed at a Marriott hotel as a pool
lifeguard. He shared some of his impressions with the club.
Once again the session attracted so many people
that the room could hardly accommodate the audience.
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