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Dear InterNations Friends,
My name is François López-Grégorio, founder of MiWeeks Eco conscious booking travel club.
I’m posting this thread because I need Your Help to continue with the mark; Eco conscious booking.
So what is an Eco conscious booking site? It's a new business model aimed to transform the online accommodation segment into a sustainable industry. It is also a way of thinking in the Culture Code of the company. In practice it simply means that for every booking made in our websites, my company donates, out of our own commissions, €15 to €100 to programmes dedicated to the restoration, protection and/or conservation of our planet's Biodiversity. At the moment I cooperate with WWF Sweden with the restoration program “Save our Seas” (we are a Swedish company).
Why should an online travel booking service be Eco conscious? Primarily because our planets’ biodiversity is slowly dying . Second, because travel and tourism is one of the largest industries in the world that demands substantial resources to deliver the total “holiday experience”. At last because the Eco Conscious booking mark will only succeed with the help of the buyers side, YOU. Indeed, everything always begins at the source, your personal choices. In this case, the reasons that drives you to choose your online supplier and then book your holiday accommodation.
So how much money do big online companies earn? According to Statista, in Protected content the accommodation online segment generated USD $397,768 million dollars (Cruises, Vacation rentals, Hotels, Package Holiday). It is estimated that between Expedia, Priceline and Airb&b, they control 80% of the market in Europe. Now imagine that in a 1 year time thanks to a dramatic unprecedented change in the buyer side, a new "Eco conscious booking trend" is born. Think and calculate if only half percent from the online accommodation segment revenues is reinvested for the restoration, conservation and preservation of our planet biodiversity. Dream that by Protected content to your choice, big companies are driven to follow online market trends and offer to their digital audience a “none social dumping” but a real internal Eco conscious program aimed to fund programs to restore, protect and conserve our planet biodiversity. Wouldn’t that be inspiring but also crucial to our environmental emergency?
So why do I need your help? I’m running short on funds to complete the development of the main website MiWeeks.com. In order to stay free from outside capital, I need more traffic and conversions in the websites; areweeks.com and finlandweeks.com. Once the main website is online, I will be able to offer my eco conscious booking customers, and maybe you , with over Protected content in Protected content holiday destinations. Cool right! Then through MiWeeks Eco conscious booking program, I could donate as much as € Protected content programs dedicated to preserve our planet Biodiversity. This is achievable with only Protected content per year!
How can you help? You could start by checking my websites: Protected content and Protected content and see for yourself my work. Then if you have extra time and like to help me networking, spread the word out to everyone you know, that would be huge 

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