Greener Galle is a community-founded initiative to generate a more ecologically sustainable environm Sri Lanka is second only to Hawaii in biodiversity.
Greener Galle is working hard in collaboration with the local authorities to organise a host of sustainable services such as: waste collection for recycling, enabling members to both offset and reduce their carbon emissions, thereby saving money as a by-product, facilitating regular beach clean up events and cutting back on traffic within the Fort. This island's extraordinary abundance of nature i
s its most precious resource, not least when it comes to attracting visitors. A growing number of tourists wish to travel in an environmentally-friendly way; in fact, eco-tourism is now recognised as one of the fastest growing segments of the worldwide travel industry. Anyone reliant on a buoyant tourist market for the success of their business should brace themselves in light of the World Tourism Organisation’s latest macroeconomic prediction that international tourist arrivals will increase to 1.8 billion by 2030, up from 940 million in 2010. For the prettiest and most historically important places in the world, of which Galle Fort most certainly is one, this is a scary surge from 1950, when only 25 million people travelled internationally. It would be amazing if we can make Galle Fort the world’s first carbon neutral UNESCO world living heritage city in this context. Imagine Galle Fort being heralded around the globe as a flagship carbon-neutral success story. Imagine the impact this would have on the growth of your business.
