The Riverwind Foundation is the managing organization for the Jackson Hole & Yellowstone Sustainable Destination Program. The mission of the Riverwind Foundation is to empower individuals, organizations, and communities to explore, experience, and exchange perspectives of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. The Riverwind Foundation does this by providing education, training, and experiential opportunities on the [...]
ECOCLUB.com - International Ecotourism Club, founded in 1999 in Athens, Greece, is a mutual aid network for an ecological and equitable tourism. Through their award-winning platform they provide specialist online resources and support to ecotourism practitioners, academics, job-seekers and students and promote eco-holiday options to all. For more information please visit https://ecoclub.com
The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network conserves threatened wildlife while contributing to the economic vitality of rural communities. Our mission is to protect wildlife in wild places and on agricultural lands in-between by certifying enterprises, like tourism, that assure people and nature coexist and thrive. Certified Wildlife Friendly® uses the power of the marketplace to create [...]
The Cayman Islands, the GSTC's latest destination member, recently underwent a GSTC comprehensive assessment of its sustainability as part of the GSTC's Destinations Program. The procurement and organization of the assessment for the Cayman Islands were spearheaded by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism (CIDOT) and Cayman Department of Environment. The GSTC's Destinations Program [...]
The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) has a diverse role which in essence is all about creating and fostering relationships. The MTA is the tourism industry’s regulator and motivator, its business partner, the country’s brand promoter with the intent to form, maintain and manage meaningful partnerships with all tourism stakeholders. The main role of the MTA [...]
Asian Ecotourism Network (AEN) provides more hands-on connections and relevant opportunities for members working together at a regional scale providing more networking and business opportunities, significant information, educational materials and networking prospects to both small and large organizations within Asia. AEN endorces the GSTC and its criteria for sustainability for travel providers, accommodations, destinations, and [...]
Altruvistas provides ethical, comprehensive, educational and philanthropic travel planning services so participants can have the adventure of a lifetime. Ourethical travel company inspires travelers to engage their passion, explore the issues they care about, share with communities around the world, and build dynamic philanthropic relationships. Like many travelers, we believe that in order for travel [...]
TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. From now on, the broad portfolio gathered under the Group umbrella will consist of strong tour operators, 1,800 travel agencies and leading online portals, six airlines more than 130 aircraft, over 300 hotels with 210,000 beds, twelve cruise liners and countless incoming agencies in all major holiday [...]
Vesselka Consulting Ltd. is an independent international organization offering a broad range of professional services. We use practical approaches to design and implement initiatives that achieve results and make a difference for the private sector and development programs. Working with private sector senior management we provide in-depth feasibility studies followed by implementation. In development our [...]
Green Evolution, a For-Profit Organization based in Athens, Greece, was created in 2009 by a group of environmental, engineering, financial and legal experts who are specialists in environment, energy and carbon finance. Through innovative technical & financial services, Green Evolution's vision is to help create a sustainable and secure future based on integrated environmental services [...]
Incoming tour operator, founded in 1996, TLB Destinations offers tourism experiences in the Middle East - mainly Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. For the past 12 years, TLB Destinations has taken travellers to trips with an emphasis on “mingling” with local community and has proven that responsible tourism can significantly benefit local communities. To participate in, [...]
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the leading hotel companies, with 4,700 hotels around the world, with well-known hotel brands, including InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza® and Holiday Inn®. IHG's Corporate Responsibility programs focus on environmental sustainability, sustainable communities and disaster relief. One of IHG's environmental sustainability program, IHG Green Engage, is a system that measures the [...]
The Berlin based consultancy mascontour GmbH was founded in 2005. We are convinced that long-term competitiveness, satisfied clients and a high quality of life in destinations, can only be guaranteed when tourism development is managed in an economically, ecologically and socially sound way. Therefore our work aims at linking tourism and sustainability management innovatively and [...]
Travelife is an international certification system, promoting sustainability within the tourism industry. It helps tour operators, hotels and accommodations to manage and monitor their social and environmental impacts, as well as communicate their achievements to customers. It is an accessible sustainability system that provides members with a practical framework to improve their business. For more [...]
Universidad Tecnológica de León (UTL) Tourism Management & Development Program is aimed at training professionals to fulfill the productive and social sectors priority needs with highly trained staff. The UTL has more than 19 years of experience, all its academic programs are recognized by the National Council of Higher Education Accreditation (COPAES). The UTL was the [...]
AGEG Tourism for Sustainability Consulting provides international implementation consulting with practical approach on sustainable tourism development as well as tailor-made and innovative solutions. We are member of the AGEG Group, an association of experts and consulting company operating worldwide with over 25 years of experience in international development cooperation and sustainable development in more than 120 [...]
EarthCheck is the world's largest certifier of sustainable travel and tourism operators. With more than 1000 clients in over 70 countries, the environmental management program responds directly to the challenges posed by climate change, waste reduction and non-renewable resource management. It provides a benchmarking, certification and performance improvement system that results in average savings of 30 [...]
European Centre for Ecological and Agricultural Tourism is a European not for profit founded in 1992 in order to link tourism with sustainability. ECEAT follows a business oriented approach through the development and implementation of standards, management systems, training tools and by providing marketing support. ECEAT is co-founder of VISIT, the European association for sustainable [...]
Ecoservices Dominicana expertise is in developing environmental sustainability within organizational culture and providing a package of services that can lead to international environmental certification. This is achieved through personnel training at all levels while also providing the service capacity to retrieve and process the various recyclables. We pride ourselves on maintaining continual communication with our client base [...]
Since 1991, Ecotourism Australia (EA) has been Australia's peak industry body representing over 500 ecotourism operators and members. EA manages four certification programs for tourism businesses within Australia to promote high quality, best practice standards; ECO, Respecting our Culture (ROC),Climate Action and EcoGuide certification. Their primary product development tool – ECO certification – is a world-recognised program [...]
