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Sustainable biodiversity to be celebrated this World Tourism Day 2010
This year, the travel industry will be marking World Tourism Day by highlighting how sustainable tourism initiatives can directly contribute to the conservation of biodiversity.
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Sustainable tourism a worldwide goal for the UN
The United Nations has just announced a new global partnership to expand sustainable, responsible tourism around the world.
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Can the travel industry use more sustainable travel agents?
A new course from The Travel Institute certifies agents as “Lifestyle Specialists” via a partnership with Sustainable Travel International. Could this open the door for more responsible travel options?
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‘Green’ lodging – at the Ritz?
Doing your part to better the environment and preserve the world your children and grand children will grow up in doesn’t have to be uncomfortable.
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Responsible business practices meets adventure travel in Costa Rica
Creating new opportunities for sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, Gap Adventures, Planeterra and the Rainforest Alliance have joined forces to promote responsible adventure travel.
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Traveling green for 2010
The new year’s top ten travel and vacation destinations show how travelers want to go green, get active and find adventure.
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Sustainable tourism as an instrument of peace – building the ‘bridges of understanding’
In a recent visit to the UNWTO headquarters, President Sleiman of the Lebanese Republic highlighted the importance of sustainable tourism as an “instrument of peace and understanding.”
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Learn how sustainable and responsible tourism helps the bottom line from a panel of industry experts
World Travel Market is holding a one-day conference to educate the public on how sustainable, responsible tourism can actually benefit the global economy by bringing together some of the world’s most respected and experienced responsible tourism specialists.
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Eco-travel industry professionals panel visit Guyana to experience and promote the country’s unique nature and cultural offerings
The group is part of the latest tourism product familiarization trip organized by the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative, a joint project of the Guyana Tourism Authority and the US Agency for International Development / Guyana Trade and Investment Support project.
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Canadian green hotel program expands into the U.S.
Canadian-born green hotel certification program, Green Key Eco-Rating Program (Green Key), has officially expanded its operations into its southern cousin, the United States.
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New York launches green hotel certification program
As part of a large initiative to support sustainable tourism in New York, a new program to officially certify hotels and other types of travel-lodging as being “green” throughout the state has finally gone into practice.
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Sustainable tourism leaders win National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009
Three winners have officially been awarded in the Geotourism Challenge 2009 – highlighting leaders in sustainable tourism throughout the global online community. The Geotourism Challenge is sponsored by both the National Geographic Society and Ashoka’s Changemakers.
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New merger unites sustainable tourism around the globe
Two leading sustainable tourism initiatives have launched a joint effort to provide global sustainable tourism guidelines and international accreditation to the travel industry in an effort to help protect the environment and support local communities.
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ISLANDS Magazine gets Green Globe certified
Green Globe International has just entered into a new agreeent with ISLANDS Magazine to help out Green Globe Certified properties and tourism attractions located in island destinations around the world, as well as provide regular editorial contributions inviting ISLANDS readers to consider how to go green at home and on the road.
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Green is the way to go for today’s top hotels
New research is proving that the “green scene” is here to stay, and well worth every penny. As more and more properties dive head-first into the green travel market, the best and brightest will continue to fan the flames of competition to deliver top-quality, sustainable options to travelers.
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Help protect the Belize Barrier Reef with the support of the United Nations
The UN Foundation has officially listed the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System as “World Heritage in Danger” due to unsustainable tourism activity. The designation hopes to encourage responsible tourism that is crucial to the economic well-being of the region while highlighting the site’s unique natural value.
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Bike tour and adventure company wins Nat Geo award for 'Tour of a Lifetime'
National Geographic Traveler has just awarded BikeHike Adventures’ Costa Rica Coast to Coast Adventure as one of their “50 Tours of a Lifetime” – highlighting the company’s multi-sport adventures that are committed to sustainable, geotourism practices.
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Canadian hotels take a big green step toward sustainability
The Hotel Association of Canada has just joined the Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria, a program backed by the United Nations and based on the “four pillar of sustainable tourism”: effective sustainability planning, maximizing social and economic benefits to the local community, reduction of negative impacts to cultural heritage and reduction of negative impacts to environmental heritage.
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Master's Degree in Sustainable Tourism in the works at Eastern Carolina University
The Center for Sustainable Tourism at ECU is planning to debut a new and unprecedented Master of Science Degree in Sustainable Tourism for the Fall 2009 semester; the first of its kind in the United States.
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New adventure travel partnership consults on Jordan's developing tourism industry
Jordanian tourism officials have gained a new perspective on the country’s adventure tourism market potential thanks to sustainable development strategies put in place by a joint mission between the Adventure Travel Trade Association, National Geographic ADVENTURE magazine and Xola Consulting.
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Giant sea turtles swimming up to safe haven in Panama 
New adventure travel site launches to help “Book the Adventure of a Lifetime” 
San Francisco welcomes new shark exhibit in name of conservation 
Boeing helps Haiti rebuild, schools are top priority 
‘Freedom to Travel’: How will an ease on Cuba travel restrictions affect the industry? 
Sustainable hotel brand Adoba helps ‘Move America Forward’ with William Shatner 
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