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 [...]
ECOTRANS is a European network of experts and organisations in Tourism, Environment and regional development, who are seeking to promote good practice in the field of sustainable tourism. The ECOTRANS concept was established in 1988 at the International Conference Tourism and Environment in Europe in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy. The non-profit organisation ECOTRANS e.V. was founded in 1993 [...]
Federación Colombiana de Ecoturismo, Ecoparques y Turismo de Aventura -FEDEC-, is a Colombian association of small and medium size entrepreneurs, universities and local communities, founded in 2002, with the aim to develop a word class sustainable nature and culture tourism in the country. FEDEC has been assigned by the Goverment as representative of the ecotourism [...]
Green Globe provides certification, training & education, and marketing services in over 90 countries worldwide. Based in Los Angeles, California and with representations in Latin & South America, Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, Green Globe provides certification for the sustainable operations and management of travel and tourism companies and their related supplier businesses. [...]
Green Leaf Foundation was established in 1998 by six organizations from government sector and private sector in Thailand. These participating organizations could strengthen their corporate social responsibility efforts. The significant of the GLF are environmental impact, tremendous growth, and competition for clients, the hotel industry provided a key opportunity. GLF ethos evolves around “going local”. Hotels [...]
Hostelling International (HI) is a not-for-profit registered charity (England & Wales) representing over 70 Member Associations worldwide. In 2009, the international hostelling movement celebrated its 100th birthday, and its original values of, educating people of all nations, to understand, love and care for the countryside, and each other are still true today. HI has over 4 [...]
Responsible Tourism Institute as created after the World Conference on Sustainable Tourism (1995). It is an independent organization, associated with UNESCO and UNWTO (World Tourism Organization). The IRT was founded with the aim of putting sustainable development programmes and actions into practice within the tourist industry. So, the IRT developed the RESPONSIBLE TOURISM SYSTEM (RTS) whose [...]
Khiri Travel is more than just another tour supplier. As an independently owned high-end travel supplier, Khiri offers the chance to veer off the beaten path and to discover something utterly new. Rather than simply lead tourists through the same predictable litany of guidebook highlights, our tours take adventurers deep into the heart of Southeast Asian [...]
Mount Huangshan Scenic Area Administrative Committee (HSAC) is an organization legislatively ratified by the standing committees of the People’s Congress of Anhui Province and authorized by the Huangshan Municipal Government to conduct the overall management of Mt.Huangshan.HSAC has four functions,including strategic planning, protecting the resources and environment, promoting tourism development and coordinating the interests of communities. [...]
The Rainforest Alliance is helping people to change their land-use practices, setting standards for the long-term sustainable use of resources so that we can conserve the planet’s great wealth of biodiversity and help people use the resources they need without compromising them for future generations. By reducing the deleterious impacts of forestry, agriculture and tourism — especially [...]
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd is a global cruise vacation company. Last year, our brands carried nearly four-million guests, visiting approximately 400 destinations worldwide. In everything we do, RCL is ever conscious of a very special, and very certain, responsibility. Simply put, we must protect the marine environment and sustain the wellbeing of the people and places [...]
Sustainable Riviera Maya (SRM) is an NGO, founded in 2009, with the mission to make sustainable tourism the primary engine for development, wealth and the engine of peace. At the same time SRM makes efforts to preserving natural treasures, local culture and society. Additionally, SRM strives to provide a linking platform that fosters congresses, seminars, training and [...]
TourCert has the not-for-profit objective of promoting sustainable business operations in tourism through credible training, auditing and certification. In TourCert experts from tourism, universities, environment and development organizations and politics are assembled, each contributing many years of experience in their field. They stand for qualified training, consultancy and certification. The European organizations German Church Development [...]
University of Utah: Dept of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, Sustainable Tourism Management is where education and citizenship combine to enhance the quality of life for the world we touch. The department's mission is to create, share, and apply knowledge about park, recreation, and tourism resources and phenomena in order to advance the intellectual and professional development [...]
Wood Certification Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2005 under the Indians Companies Act of 1956. WoodCert is involved in training, third party inspection, forest certification, chain of custody certification, and validation and veritifcaion of forestry carbon projects per frameworks such as CCBA, CCX, Plan Vivo and ISO 14064. WoodCert also participates in VLO and VLC certification [...]
Created in December 2006, the World Centre of Excellence for Destinations, a non-profit organization based in Montréal, is an innovative and powerful tool created with the assistance of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with which it is linked through a memorandum of understanding. The mission of the CED is to contribute to guiding tourist [...]
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the world's leading conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries. Our mission is to conserve nature, reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth, and build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. WWF's unique way of [...]
Adventure Green Alaska (AGA) is a voluntary certification program for tourism businesses operating in Alaska that meet standards of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. AGA also assists non-qualifying tourism businesses on improving their operations so they may become eligible for the Alaska sustainable tourism label. For more information, please visit www.adventuregreenalaska.org
Founded in February 1977, the AHT has steadily been working with professionalism, responsibility and efficiency towards the achievement of its goals. Nowadays, the association gathers the main hotels in Argentina, taking into account not only the capacity of their facilities but also their quality, and connecting through its activities those hotel establishments located in the most important [...]
Georgian Tourism Association (GTA) is an organization of private tourism companies and hotels in Georgia. The association was founded in 2006 to promotethe cooperation between the tourism companies in Georgia, cooperation between private and public sector, sustainable tourism development in Georgia, accessibility of tourism information and country marketing, capacity building and quality management for tourism services. Georgian [...]
