Climate Hub

Welcome to Skift’s Climate Hub, where solutions-based journalism cuts through industry spin to spotlight real progress in travel sustainability. In partnership with Intrepid Travel, Skift’s editorial team will evaluate environmental claims, highlight meaningful advancements, and hold the travel sector accountable. This independent initiative brings rigorous reporting to the forefront and pushes the industry to meet the moment in the face of growing scrutiny from travelers and stakeholders alike.

Ground Transport

Hertz Launches Waterless Car-Washing At 220 Off-Airport Locations

Corporate responsibility is mostly a lot of hype, but these sustainable initiatives from Hertz make good business sense. For most of them, like this waterless car wash initiative, Hertz reduces its costs, helps the environment, and could engender goodwill from customers and potential customers.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Airlines

Spirit Airlines Advertises It Isn't Smoking Crack When Offering Low Fares

Should we view Spirit Airlines as the corporately responsible greenest U.S. airline or as the best gutter marketer in travel? Despite the mixed marketing messages, Spirit is following both tracks in becoming a highly successfu airline, and the envy of many of its peers.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Hotels

Customers Don't Care About Green Hotels, One Way or Another

The hotel operators worry whether going green means sacrificing their service standards at times, and this study show it surely won't hurt. And there are bigger benefits beyond bookings, including energy savings and tax credits from local municipalities, among others.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Hotels

Marlon Brando's Vision for a Luxurious Sustainable Resort Comes to Life

Brando would have wanted his privacy, but visitors will appreciate the openness -- if they can afford it.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Tourism

Florida Keys leaders consider plans to keep climate change impact at bay

The Keys, Maldives, Cuba, and others are now facing the very real impacts of global warming and unless effective changes are made quickly, rising sea levels could wipe out the destinations’ economic sustenance before buildings are underwater.

Jennifer Kay | 12 years ago

Tourism

Las Vegas heat wave sends more than 40 people to hospital

With heat like this, there's little reason to leave the casino tables.

Martin Griffith | 12 years ago

Airlines

Extreme heat wave hits western U.S. as Las Vegas sizzles

Extreme heat can reduce an aircraft's lift, making the weekend challenging for air travel in places like Phoenix and Nevada this weekend.

Brian Skoloff | 12 years ago

Tourism

Waterfront cities plot ways to protect themselves from devastating floods

The waterfront locations that have sustained each of these cities’ hugely profitable tourism industries and boosted local businesses, now threatens to kill off both with a single unmanageable flood.

Karl Ritter | 12 years ago

SkiftX

Ten sustainable initiatives taking cities into the next century

The list is a combination of climate control, traffic decongestion, and energy saving ideas that are already being implemented in cities, which suggests it's only a matter of time before the most efficient initiatives become common practice in urban design.

12 years ago

Tourism

Can ASEAN nations lure tourists and keep their soul?

The 10 nations of ASEAN are increasingly tourism dependent, and need common policies and branding to continue building up in a sustainable way, and stay away from bad examples in parts of Thailand and Cambodia.

12 years ago