Do You Buy Green Travel Souvenirs?

I’ve been a travel writer for the past seven years, writing for AAA (www.aaa.com), TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com), Sherman's Travel (www.shermanstravel.com), Grand Circle Travel (www.grandcircletravel.com), and many other travel companies.

Yesterday, I was talking with a colleague from Hideaways (www.hideaways.com)—a luxury travel club—about what I consider to be the greatest green travel souvenir: cloth bags. If you’ve read the past postings of this blog, you’ll know I own a cloth bag company called EcoVixen (www.ecovixen.com). As much as I’d love to think that someone would buy ten of my bags to shop with, I know that’s not realistic. Even I carry bags that aren’t my own—it’s part of the fun.

Whenever I travel, I pick up a cloth bag as a souvenir. It’s the most useful souvenir there is as I typically use it to carry back all the extra stuff I seem to accumulate on a trip (like the little soaps and lotions the hotels provide). Once I’m home, I continue to use the bags whenever and wherever I shop. Each time, they are a fun reminder of my trip while they help me to be environmentally friendly.

Not bad for a travel souvenir!

Question of the blog: What kind of green souvenirs do you buy?