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Too big to fail: tourism industry biggest factor in climate change
As one of the largest global industries of the modern era, travel and tourism not only sets the standard on climate change, but also serves as an example of how to fight it.
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CNN helps strengthen world tourism economy
CNN International has partnered with UNWTO to collaborate on various industry events to ensure the best breed of knowledge and latest data is imparted to sector professionals.
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Volunteer travel organization in Africa gains new accolades in Responsible Tourism
African Impact, a family-run African voluntourism organization, has been nominated for the prestigious Imvelo Responsible Tourism Award; the Imvelo Awards have had a huge impact on tourism in South Africa, creating significant awareness of environmental management issues.
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The 2009 Skål International Ecotourism Awards sets date for November
This year’s awards highlight best practices in tourism around the world for 2009, with emphasis on the importance of the interaction of the physical, cultural, and social environment the traveler’s responsibility and the need for active community participation for ecotourism.
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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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Sri Lanka Tourism presents DVD on tourism and climate change
Sri Lanka presented “A land like no other; A Tourism EarthLung” at the World Travel Market in London last week, a song/DVD by Alston Koch.
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Help stop child exploitation in the travel industry
As tourism and international travel across the globe reaches unprecedented levels, so does the need to combat child labor and sexual exploitation in the global travel industry – that is why the United Nations body for tourism is taking action now.
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Ted Turner offers sustainable tourism criteria at World Conservation Congress
Voluntary standards that focus on the most critical aspects of sustainable tourism in order to help travel suppliers around the world meet increasing consumer demand for products and services that will have positive effects on communities and the environment.
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Tourism will and must 'Grow Smartly' in face of climate change
Tourism growth must be pursued with great emphasis on ethics and local community involvement as well as reducing carbon emissions, as concluded by World Tourism Day (WTD) 2008 Think Tank.
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Leading futurist Dr. Ian Yeoman delivers Keynote at PATA Tourism Strategy Forum
One of the world’s leading tourism industry futurists, Dr. Ian Yeoman will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Tourism Strategy Forum, which is bringing together tourism marketers, planners and strategists from across the Asia Pacific region.
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UN focuses on Climate Change with World Tourism Day
TOURpact.GC, a corporate social responsibility framework for businesses, was welcomed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a leadership initiative aligning principles of the Global Compact and UNWTO’s Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.
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UNWTO launches new carbon-neutral travel site in time for World Tourism Day 2008
www.ClimateSolutions.travel, a web site aiming to be the central gateway for information on solutions available to help the tourism sector respond to climate change, is scheduled to be launched on World Tourism Day – Septemer 27, 2008 in Lima, Peru.
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Introducing New Eco-Friendly Brand Hotel 'PURE GREEN'
Orienscorp’s subsidiary Hotel PURE adds an Eco-Friendly brand called PURE GREEN. Many hotels in Costa Rica have already got the Certification for Sustainable Tourism.
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U.N. World Tourism Organization urges Industry for Climate Change
The tourism sector has the potential to act effectively on the evolving common agenda of climate change response and the fight against poverty. UNWTO put forward this message during the thematic debate “Addressing Climate Change: The United Nations and the World at Work”, at UN Headquarters in New York.
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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 
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