Philippa Jacks

Philippa is Features Editor on Travel Trade Gazette, where she writes about responsible tourism alongside the business of travel as much as she can.

She has her own blog, Greenspaced, which explores green travel, conservation, and whatever other green issues are bothering her at the time.

Her interest in conservation was sparked at the age of eight, when she spent all her holiday money on adopting an endangered loggerhead turtle in Greece. She’s just started volunteering for the RSPB, so at weekends you’ll find her helping people to appreciate the wildlife of London.

For greentraveller, she’ll be concentrating on wildlife holidays, voluntourism and diving, and also green travel options which make the most of the coastal areas and islands right here in the UK.

Some of her favourite holiday experiences have been killer whale-watching in the fjords of Norway and diving with wild dolphins, but she knows she can’t put off diving British waters much longer, and is already bracing herself for the cold…