• Alt Search Engines , Friday, October 3, 2008 2:49 PM

In search of a vacation that's "easy" on the environment? Then head to Whole Travel, the search engine and portal for sustainable travel. Users can search by destination or by experience type (fly-fishing, or camping, for example), and then get to the hotel or locale's Web site through one click.

Whole Travel ranks destinations in terms of their sustainability using a Whole Ranking score, a metric determined by how the hotel/property's answers to questions about their environmental practices, economic management, social and cultural support, and customer service.

"Based on their answers, we give them a Whole Ranking score between 0 and 5 fleather - and we share it with you," the team says. "We know you care about how hotels treat their employees and the environment. So does Whole Travel."

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