It is you as a traveller who decides how sustainable your trip or your holiday is. You can choose environmentally friendly means of transport for travelling to and from your destination as well as for getting around during your stay. You can opt for holiday destinations and accommodations that foster sustainable tourism development by sound use of natural resources and that consider the interests of the local population by guarenteering the fair and equitable share of economic benefits of tourism.

You can minimise the impacts of your sports and leisure activities on nature if you consider environmentally friendly options and respect rules and regulations. When choosing a tour operator or travel agency, you can make sure that it applies the principles of sustainable tourism for all its offers.

Thus you can contribute essentially to sound tourism development which makes tourism more sustainable around the world.

ETE helps you planning your sustainable trip with many useful tips and links that can be obtained at the web site "Zukunft Reisen" (information in German).

The German internet portal lists more than a hundred links to the web sites of tour operators, organisations and institutions that provide information on environmentally friendly and socially responsible travel. Planning your trip, adequate accommodation, environmentally friendly means of transport and leisure activities, ecolabels and awards for sustainable travel agencies - on all these topics you can find concrete und detailed descriptions and links, leading you quickly to the information and web site you search for when planning your next sustainable holiday.