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Ecotourism & Responsible Travel (English)
RESOURCES
CHARTER FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
HAROLD GOODWIN.INFO Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURISM presents worldwide initiatives and projects. You can also find news, reports and working papers.
PLANETA is an Ecotourism Travel Resource Center
PROPOOR TOURISM provides news, research reports and studies on Pro-Poor Tourism, a "tourism that results in increased net benefits for poor people".
WORLD DECLARATION ON ECOTOURISM
ORGANISATIONS - INITIATIVES
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL (BEST) - this website showcases the actions taken by BEST members and share good practice information.
EQUATION provides "documentation, publication, research, seminars and the investigation of alternative tourism policies and structures".
FAIRWINGS presents destination’s commitments towards responsible tourism. It currently covers 4 countries: Kerala, Sri Lanka, Nepal and France. This number is supposed to increase.
INDONESIAN ECOTOURISM NETWORK (Indecon)
INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF SOCIAL TOURISM (BITS) aims to bring "improved tourism" within the reach of the majority. This website relays initiatives in this sense.
THE INTERNATIONAL ECOTOURISM SOCIETY (TIES) is dedicated to "generating and disseminating information about ecotourism" and "influencing the tourism industry, public institutions and donors to integrate the principles of ecotourism into their operations and policies".
INTERNATIONAL TOURISM PARTNERSHIP is the tourism program of the International Leaders Forum.
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE'S SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROGRAM "works with tourism entrepreneurs and community-based businesses in Latin America, providing them training and information on environmentally and socially sound management, in order to help them gain access to and be more competitive in the marketplace, while contributing to the conservation of the local culture and nature".
RESPONSIBLETRAVEL.COM is an online travel agent proposing "more real and authentic holidays that also benefit the environment and local people".
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM PARTNERSHIP brings together "tourism businesses in originating markets and destinations to work with local communities and national and local government to create better places for local communities to live in and for tourists to visit".
TOUR OPERATORS INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
TOURISM CONCERN works "with communities in destination countries to reduce social and environmental problems connected to tourism and with the out-going tourism industry in the UK to find ways of improving tourism so that local benefits are increased".
TOURISM EUROPEAN / ECUMENICAL NETWORK (TEN) aims to encourage "all means which increase the positive aspects within tourism and […] fight all its negative aspects".
TOURISM FOR HELP
THE TRAVEL FOUNDATION
U.N. COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CSD) - Tourism
U.N. ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM (UNEP) - Sustainable Tourism Site
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