All Posts Tagged With: "culture"

Sol Meliá becomes the world’s first Biosphere Hotel Company

Over a year since its Board of Directors approved its corporate Global Sustainability Policy, hotel brand Sol Meliá has successfully concluded a certification process which has verified all of the company’s processes and business units on the basis of the criteria which define Responsible Tourism.

Ecotourism finds funding in African nation of Namibia

Namibia has been chosen as the first US-based Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) client to receive a $70 million ecotourism grant in an effort to establish the nation as one of Africa’s leading tourism economies within ten years.

The Bodhi Tree Foundation launches to protect the world through travel

Founded by travel industry veteran Jena Gardner, The Bodhi Tree Foundation aims to unite travelers to protect places, help people, and preserve cultures.

Understanding Philanthropic Travel

“Ultimately conservation is about people. If you don’t have sustainable development around these (wildlife) parks, then people will have no interest in them, and the parks will not survive.” -Nelson Mandela

Enchantment Resort

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What: Hotels
Where: Arizona, Sedona

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Wine Lovers Tours

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What: Dining, Tours, wine
Where: Europe, Italy

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Responsible Adventures

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What: adventure, Tours
Where: Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet

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From Relief to Self-Reliance: Grassroots tourism project recognized by BBC World Challenge

Andaman Discoveries has been nominated as a finalist in the BBC World Challenge 2009, in recognition of its contribution to community development in Southern Thailand – supporting eight villages to achieve sustainable development on their own terms.

Eco eating in Crete: new Responsible Travel programs help preserve culture with tourism and good food

Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries, the educational travel program noted for best practices in Responsible Travel, is offering a new workshop to educate professionals in tourism, conservation, agriculture, and the culinary arts from October 11-18, 2009 on how to implement programs that include heritage preservation, organic agriculture, and building mutually beneficial relations between local populations and the tourist trade.

Tell your Senator to support climate legislation!

The World Wildlife Fund is urging voters to put pressure on their State’s Senators to support climate legislation in Washington with the “Act for Our Future” campaign; a national public awareness campaign that supports legislation that would help protect the nation and the world from the devastating impacts of climate change.