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Rowing The World Climate Action Plan
In December 2021 Rowing The World declared a climate emergency and signed the Glasgow Declaration. One obligation is to develop a plan within one year of signing. This Climate Action Plan follows the format recommended by the Glasgow Declaration, with some modification. The blue text is the wording from UNWTO[1]. MEASURE Measure and disclose all…
Update on Carbon Footprint Commitments
Almost a year has zoomed by since Rowing The World declared a climate emergency and signed the Glasgow Accord. How are we doing on our commitments?
Rowing The World Declares a Climate Emergency
Rowing The World is proud to be a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. Rowing The World also declares a climate emergency. The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism unites travel and tourism behind a common set of pathways for climate action, aligning the sector with global commitments and catalysing…
Inside Rowing The World: How We Select Which Rowing Trips to Run
It is question that we often get asked – how do you decide which rowing tours to run? It is timely, since we are already turning our attention to planning trips in 2021, even before we have run our first trip of 2020. Our list of rowing destinations has grown steadily over our seven years…
All Non-Rowers Welcome!
Non-rowers are very welcome on trips with Rowing The World. Sometimes even in the boat, especially if you are as small and as cute as Jackina, our mascot in Italy. Occasionally non-rowing people are in the rowing shells too, perhaps as a cox, or maybe as a passenger. On our Belize Oar Board trip, Julia,…
Gift Guide for Rowers
Leave the heavy gifting to us. This time of year, your inbox will fill with deals for rigger jiggers, dry sacks and other wonderful gift ideas for rowers. We decided to offer a beyond-wonderful (and, we hope, inspiring) gift guide for your rowing loved ones.
How Rowing Trips Get Created – Part 1 – St. Petersburg Private Trip
As a tour operator, we are keen at Rowing The WorldTM to create trips that rowers want to buy. It is a tremendous amount of work, and sometimes a big investment of money, to develop a trip to the standard of quality that we want. This is why we often run test trips. Typically by…
12 Months, 12 Countries: Highlights of 2015
‘Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.’ author unknown. By that basis, I am ending the year much richer. Here are a few other rowing travel highlights from 2015: Attending the FISA World Rowing Championship in Aiguebelette, France Participating in a small way to promoting rowing in less developed countries…
Looking back and looking forward
2014 is already under way, but I remain amazed and thrilled at what a marvelous year 2013 was for me, and I hope for you too. I experienced a lot of firsts and there were many highlights. Too many to itemize, but I was delighted by and grateful for the number of rowers in many…