Ecopship Sustainable Cruising Vessel Essay

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It’s a dilemma most travelers face: how to indulge the wanderlust without leaving too much of an environmental footprint. Unless we are prepared to walk the earth, literally, we may still be a long way away from totally carbon-neutral traveling. However, this week humanity just took one giant leap forward to propel the hopes for genuinely green travel. As Kennedy (2017) points out in this CNN article, Japan and Finland are collaborating on the world’s most sustainable cruising vessel. Called the “Ecoship,” the cruise boat could radically transform the tourism industry and inspire other companies with strong ethical visions of corporate social and environmental responsibility.

The Japanese company behind the Ecoship is called Peace Boat. Peace Boat has been running educational cruises for some time, already promoting a type of responsible tourism based not on how many silly selfies you can take in front of the Eifel Tower, but on what traveling can teach us, and how traveling can transform our lives. Yes, Peace Boat is the real deal. When we travel responsibly and consciously, we create opportunities for sustainable economic development around the world. The Peace Boat model is admirable because it connects the educated and curious traveler with opportunities for transformative learning experiences.

As much as I would love for Peace Boat to offer me free passage in exchange for writing a blog post telling people about how awesome they are, I’m going to let you in on a secret.

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Shhhhhh, I don’t actually like cruises. Cruise ships have long been one of the most insidious and wasteful types of tourism out there. The cruise ship model is wasteful—have you ever seen how much food they throw away? Cruise ships guzzle gas and dump waste into the sea. They also encourage the type of tourism that we can all do without: the boatloads of tourist hoards descending upon destinations and in many cases, ruining them forever. As an aside, I really do hope Venice takes a stand and bans cruise ships from the lagoon.

It is about time the industry changed to reflect the values of the new generations seeking more ethical ways of traveling. We need more sustainable tourism, even if for now only the wealthy can afford it. I personally do not know if I will go aboard the Ecoship (unless they would like for me to write a blog post for them….....

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