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Tourists will be rewarded with free food and activities if they participate in environmentally friendly tasks while visiting Copenhagen, the city's tourist board has announced.
Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 09 Jul 2024
Tourists will be rewarded with free food and activities if they participate in environmentally friendly tasks while visiting Copenhagen, the city's tourist board has announced.
The trial scheme, which begins on 15 July, will see tourist attractions in the Danish capital offer rewards for activities such as litter-picking, travelling by public transport or biking around the city.
Under the initiative, visitors can claim free lunches, coffees, glasses of wine and kayak rental in return for their work.
The "CopenPay" scheme, external is designed to offset the "environmental burden" of tourism, according to the Copenhagen tourist board.
"When you travel abroad - if you fly to other places or you travel by car - you pollute," says the tourist board's communications chief Rikke Holm Petersen.
"One of the things we can change is getting people to act more sustainably at the destination."
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