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Green Hotels becoming more popular with travelers.

Series: Good Dirt Radio Stories
From: Tom Bartels
Length: 00:05:02

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Got reservations about traveling? Learn about creative, energy-reducing efforts that the lodging industry is incorporating and how hoteliers and travelers can participate in these money-saving, earth-saving strategies!

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Review of Green Hotels becoming more popular with travelers.

I love the topic, but this is an advocacy piece. No apologies from this piece or hosts about browbeating the listener into environmental submission.

Hotels making an environmental effort to reuse and recycle. It's a great topic and after it gets into it, it's quite interesting about the many different ways hotels can save energy, money and land fill space.

HOWEVER, It tackles one of my favorite topics fist and frankly, and I don't think I am alone on this, the kind of topic that annoys me into rejecting the rest of what the piece has to say. Reusing your hotel towels. I admit it==I don't do this. I'm spending the money and for it I get clean towels every day. Glad to see the option, but the piece made me feel like a criminal because I don't whole heartedly subscribe to this plot to deny me of one of the last creature comforts in hospitality. So I didn't get emotionally invested in the rest of what the folks were saying for the rest of the piece. I had to listen three times to make sure I heard the meat of the story. Sorry Veggies.

If I were editing, I would have put the most popular way of conserving at the end instead of the beginning. I would have felt guilty then.

Now, to be sure, this piece is well written and the interview segments are nicely edited. But it still talks down to listeners.