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A Smart Guide to Utopia in Barcelona

Here’s a unique travel guide for the eco-conscious non-tourists! I also highly recommend the Weird and Wonderful Guide to Barcelona, all by LeCool. If you want to borrow this, feel free to visit our library!  

Dine With the Dutch matches guest and local

Want to get to know the real culture of a city? Then just have dinner at a local’s house! Dine With the Dutch matches visitors with locals that offer three-course dinners at their homes. This is a unique way to experience a […]

Eco-friendly practices in hotels and b&bs

Interesting statistics regarding eco-friendly practices in hotels and b&bs, according to TripAdvisor’s 2012 Industry Index.  

Celebrate La Mercè in Barcelona

If we had a hotel already, you would find it full of human towers, correfocs and big-heads this weekend for La Mercè!  

Top ideas for tourism and travel!

Top 10 ideas from Springwise’s Tourism and Travel section over the last 12 months!  

Please be a traveller, not a tourist

Yes please! More travellers instead of tourists for Barcelona!  

The Circus Hotel, a green option

The Circus Hotel proves that stars are not important, but an ethical approach is and even makes you #1 on Tripadvisor!  

The Pixel Hotel room rental

Really cool hotel concept, this Pixel Hotel in Linz! Pixel Hotel invites its guests to spend their stay in Linz residing in not-your-everyday accommodations—in a Pixelhotel providing a very unconventional sort of lodging. The individual rooms and suites are dispersed throughout the […]

Illustration of a more unique Barcelona

Renata Ortega’s vision of a more fun, hipster, different, cultural, graphic, colourful and special Barcelona!  

Plus One apartment rental comes with a local

Book a room and a local when in Berlin! A great set-up to connect guests with locals, and the room is made from reclaimed materials ;) Check out Plus One for more info.  

Is Barcelona spoilt by tourism? Video by BBC!

Is Barcelona spoilt by tourism? We think it is time to unspoil Barcelona by creating elegant and responsible tourism, starting with good hotels!

Running route from your hotel

A nice idea to provide guests with a running route starting at the hotel… Via Monocle  

If you are racist, don’t come in!

Can I put this on the hotel’s entrance door?! Via The Real Art of Street Art  

Inspiration: Daniel Hotel in Vienna

Photo by Zita Oberwalder for derStandard.at “Superfluous pomp and awkward hospitality are simply an unnecessary burden for modern travelers. In fact, what they really want is precisely the opposite: a fast and uncomplicated change of locations, an attractive hotel design and a […]

Download the Barcelona Green Map

Visit the Barcelona Open Green Map, or download the guerilla green map here!