Hungry Town Tours is the first business in Carteret County to join and become certified in the NC GreenTravel Initiative, a program that recognizes state travel-related businesses that employ healthy environmental practices.

Hungry Town Tours, located in Beaufort, qualified for recognition through the program because of its green practices.

“NC GreenTravel Initiative is proud to welcome Hungry Town Tours as the program’s 69th recognized sustainable travel business,” stated Tom Rhodes, NC GreenTravel program coordinator. We are particularly excited to recognize them as the very first green business in Carteret County to become a part of the NC GreenTravel Initiative,” he said.

Hungry Town Tours offers a variety of bicycle tours in Beaufort, North Carolina. While each tour is unique, the underlying goal remains the same. We provide environmentally friendly options to those who love the outdoors and are keenly aware that preserving nature is essential to their travel experience today and for years to come.

Throughout the bicycle tours, visitors begin to understand Beaufort’s defining historical assets, along with a quality of life that contributes to the area’s uniqueness and perceived value. The exchange of cultural, historical and geographical information becomes quite enriching for residents and newcomers during their Hidden Beaufort Tour. The goal of Hungry Town Tours is to combine the promotion of tourist attractions with the preservation and protection of these attractions through heritage tourism.

Today, more and more people are planning getaways around food. They are looking for much more in the way of food-and wine-focused travel than ever before, and that includes bicycle tours. Hungry Town Tours fills that niche with their Beaufort Culinary Bike Tour, Beaufort Lunchbox Tour, North Carolina Shrimp Tour, North Carolina Oyster Tour, and Bike, Brunch & Bubbles. Walking tours include: Food by Foot Culinary Walking Tour, and the Sunday Brunch Walkabout.

“Our culinary tours promote restaurants with locally-sourced food that allow for an enhanced guest experience for those visiting Beaufort,” stated David Cartier of Hungry Town Tours. “We pride ourselves on working with restaurants offering fresh, local products and supporting our local fishermen and farmers,” he said.

“People have always taken the greenness of bike transport as a given,” stated Cartier. “At Hungry Town Tours, we have combined green from “spoke to fork,” said Cartier. “We’ve achieved this by combining nature-based travel with culinary tourism through bicycle and walking tours,” he said.

“Biking is one of the most sustainable modes of travel and we encourage more people to commute and tour by bicycle,” stated Rhodes.

Hungry Town Tours was certified on August 26, 2013 and received their re-certification on March 9, 2016.

The NC GreenTravel Initiative is a free program of the North Carolina Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service to help promote robust economic growth and environmental stewardship in the travel and hospitality sector through the recognition of “green” travel-oriented businesses.

NC GreenTravel is an initiative of the N.C. Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service in partnership with the Center for Sustainable Tourism at East Carolina University, the N.C. Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development, and Waste Reduction Partners.

The NC GreenTravel website provides a list of NC GreenTravel businesses including lodging, dining, attractions, and parks.

Hungry Town Tours Environmental Policy

Hungry Town Tours seeks to be a better steward of the earth by creating a healthy environment for its customers, employees and community.

We Promise… To implement an energy reduction program, water conservation program, by helping to protect air quality and by reducing the amount of solid waste generated.

We Promise… To provide environmentally friendly options to those who love the outdoors and are keenly aware that preserving nature is essential to their travel experience today and for years to come.

We Promise… To combine the promotion of local tourist attractions, with the preservation and protection of these attractions, through heritage tourism.

We Promise… To promote restaurants offering fresh, local products and supporting our local fishermen and farmers to enable an enhanced guest experience for those visiting Beaufort, North Carolina.

Hungry Town Tours is also committed to setting a good corporate example of environmental stewardship.

Hungry Town Tours is committed to observing all Federal, state and local laws and ordinances aimed at protecting the environment.

Hungry Town Tours will continually seek to reduce its environmental footprint by looking for new and better ways to reduce its reliance on natural resources.