Rachel Dodds at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, who works to help tourism become more sustainable.Rachel has extensive expertise in sustainable tourism and has done waste audits at various festivals as well as developed sustainability strategies and provided advice to all sectors of the tourism industry, including events on how to become greener.

These challenges result from traditional, top-down, regulatory, end of pipe approaches taken in waste management that are largely ineffective (Furedy, 1992; Scheinberg 2004). Alex Adams, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Coastal Tourism Research, LLC Coastal Tourism Research projects combine Alex's professional experiences as a mariner, wilderness guide, and educator.Alex has published papers on the impacts of cruise ship tourism on small coastal communities as well as on using marine technology to develop new forms of ecotourism in marine environments. Sonya Graci is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson, University in Toronto, Ontario. Graci has worked on numerous projects around the world related to sustainable tourism development and has focused her attention on community capacity building in Honduras, Indonesia, Canada, Fiji and China. She has a keen interest in working with Aboriginal communities in developing sustainable forms of tourism. The goals of the Green Hotels and Responsible Tourism Initiative are: The Green Hotels and Responsible Tourism Initiative was developed in partnership with the leading hotel price comparison website, Hotels Combined.com, and respected tourism sustainability and hotel greening experts, Dr Sonya Graci and Jacqueline Kuehnel.The guides we've created provide clear guidelines which can help hoteliers become more environmentally friendly, and for travelers to enhance their enjoyment of the destination they visit while also being responsible tourists.