Scandic Hotels have posted “Omtanke,” a book presenting twenty-four hours in the life of a hotel from a sustainability perspective. The book provides tips and ideas for people to apply in their own homes (www.scandichotels.com/ betterworld).
Cittaslow is a slow food movement that supports the diversity of local town cultures and cuisines, with about 130 accredited slow communities in Europe (www.slowmovement.com) that promote more mindful, inclusive, and socially driven tourism development.
Similar initiatives include fair trade, carbon neutral, and One Planet communities, cities and nations. There are currently Fairtrade Towns in seventeen countries, carbon neutral regions are positioning themselves
as proving grounds for sustainable technologies in a bid to attract new businesses and become models for sustainable living (http://www.cnr2030. org/) and One Planet Communities are designed to enable people to reduce their ecological footprint (http://www.oneplanetliving.org).