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- Marriott partners with Brazilian State of Amazonas to Protect Rainforest, develops a Green Five-Point Strategy
- Richard Branson developing Caribbean eco-resort
- What Turning Down the Heat Means for Travelers
- New Environmental Tourism Project for Cayman Islands
- Renewable Energy Best Practices to Inspire Tourism Industry
Nature-based enterprises help rural poor adapt to eco-threats
Expanding nature-based enterprises can increase income for the world’s rural poor. This approach, as outlined in the latest World Resources Report 2008, can also develop the rural poor’s resilience to social and environmental threats such as climate change.
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Browse the world’s National Parks and Protected Areas on-line
New online database lets travelers view, measure and zoom-in on information about national parks and protected areas in their web browser, combining important data like species and geography, all into one portal.
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TripAdvisor study offers glimpse of 2009 Trends
Parks recreations, outdoor activities and “green” options are topping the charts as far as what American travelers are looking for in 2009.
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New Jersey’s Marriott Seaview Resort & Spa helps protect turtles
Seaview Resort & Spa, a Marriott resort in New Jersey is taking environmentally friendly actions to become a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary and help preserve the Diamondback Terrapins.
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Yellowstone’s “Black Saturday” fires - what we have learned 20 years later
Twenty years ago, more than 150,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park burned in a 24-hour period deemed “Black Saturday. Looking back, the fires did little or no long-term damage to the park’s plants and animals - almost nothing compared to the threats the park faces today.
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Starwood to bring its new Element Hotels to the Middle East
Starwood Hotels & Resorts along with Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions have jointly announced the launch of a new Element hotel in Abu Dhabi - the first to be introduced in the Europe, Africa and Middle East division - a part of Abu Dhabi’s AED $2.3 billion Capital Center.
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Eco-adventure at a new resort in Mexico benefits Waterkeeper® Alliance
The new resort donates up to $1 million in net profits to the non-profit chaired by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Donations from the resort will be directed toward supporting global water quality protection and the five Waterkeeper programs located throughout Mexico.
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River Network and Busch Beer team up to protect Northwest rivers
As environmental concerns continue to rise, it becomes increasingly important to maintain the health of our region’s rivers, which are a major source of water for drinking, industry, agriculture, recreation and fish and wildlife habitat.
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Richard Branson developing Caribbean eco-resort
The ever-innovative Richard Branson, Chairman of the Virgin Group, is setting his sights on yet another foray into sustainable business - eco-resorts - with twenty exclusive villas as well as a beachfront restaurant on the new “Mosquito Island”, which he says will be the most environmentally-friendly resort in the world.
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Carbon offsets prevalent in Adventure Travel, according to new survey
According to a new survey, The Role of Carbon Offsets in Adventure Travel, tour operators are increasingly looking for viable methods to to use carbon offsets in a broader, as travelers are willing to take on the extra charges.
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Xola Consulting publishes Adventure Travel research document
According to a new research publication by Xola Consulting, “adventure travel is not a well-defined segment”, as it often pertains to ecotourism, heritage tourism, volunteer tourism, rural tourism, community tourism, and wildlife tourism.
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Tourism Concern campaigns against development on Bimini islands
Tourism Concern continues to campaign with local Biminites and environmentalists from across the world to campaign to demand a halt to the development of a mega-resort on the Bahamian islands of Bimini.
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