| The index profiles more than a dozen awards
given for exemplary tourism services, journalism and environmental
conservation. Work in progress!
FEATURES
Reflections
on Awards
PLANETA.COM AWARDS
Book of the
Year Award
Colibri
Ecotourism
Spotlight Award
Indigenous Tourism
and Biodiversity Website Award
TOURISM
ASTA
Geotourism
Challenge - Ashoka
World
Savers Awards - Conde Nast Traveler
ECOCLUB
Ecolodge
Responsible
Travel
Skal
Skal
Ecotourism Award (PDF)
TO
DO!
Tourism
Cares for Tomorrow
Tourism
for Tomorrow
Tourism
Industry Awards (New Zealand)
TravelMole
Victorian
Tourism Awards (Australia)
World Legacy
World
Travel Awards
ENVIRONMENT
Alcan
Goldman Prize
Rolex Awards
for Enterprise
GOVERNMENT
Alcan
National Awards for Local
Government (Australia)
JOURNALISM
Biodiversity
Reporting
Society of
Environmental Journalists
IUCN/Reuters
Most awards for journalists are given to individual reporters.
This has its value and we encourage those organizing such awards
to announce the winners on our forum.
Thinking outloud ... we would like to see an award for a publication
that journalists view as exemplary in terms of its treatment
of writers, its environmental or tourism coverage and prompt
payment.
ETHICS
Dewey
Award - SXSW
Right
Livelihood
WORLD
Australian
of the Year
WEB
Lente
de Plata
Bloggies
Webbies
SPOTLIGHT ON TOURISM FOR TOMORROW
According to Costas Christ in a post on TravelMole:
The point of the Tourism
For Tomorrow Awards, completely revised and redesigned by
WTTC since the days when British Airways first sponsored them,
is to promote and encourage the world's leading examples in
sustainable tourism best practices. The Awards have a detailed
criteria, involve a team of 17 expert judges from all around
the world and are the only global awards to my knowledge that
carry out an on site verification inspection of all finalists
to make sure that what is said is being done in regards to sustainable
tourism practices is really happening on the ground. This is
not an Award program to recognize individuals as leaders in
sustainable tourism, as other responsible tourism awards already
do this. Rather, the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards specifically
focus on raising the bar of sustainable tourism practices within
the private sector. The Awards recognize and promote best practices
within the travel and tourism industry that contribute to the
protection of cultural and natural heritage (local, regional
and at the destination stewardship level), make meaningful and
tangible contributions to the wellbeing of local peoples, and
engage in environmentally sensitive operations, among other
criteria. While many tourism award programs have recognized
successful small scale sustainable tourism projects, which the
Tourism or Tomorrow Awards also do, few have focused on demonstrating
that sustainable tourism is a viable practice within the larger
mainstream tourism industry. This is something that is important
to the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, as demonstrated by an Award
category for "Global Tourism Business." The Tourism
for Tomorrow Awards bring the message of sustainable tourism
into the mainstream tourism industry, where it needs to be heard
and built upon if we are to truly have an impact in helping
to transform tourism into a real catalyst for protecting the
cultural and natural heritage of our planet.
SPOTLIGHT ON ECOCLUB
For its fifth anniversary, ECOCLUB launched its own Ecolodge
Award. ECOCLUB Members were asked to choose by email vote
from project proposals submitted by Ecolodges around the world.
Presenting the award at a live on-line event, ECOCLUB Founder,
Antonis B. Petropoulos, noted that the award "aims to verify
the implementation of meaningful small-scale projects, by existing,
successful, genuine Ecolodges, selected in a democratic fashion.
ECOCLUB believes that genuine Ecotourism should be self-sustained,
and supported from within, from its roots, rather than from
governmental organisations and charities that arbitrarily splash
out millions to the wrong hands, without even following up,
and in so doing encourage corruption."
OTHER
World
Challenge
Lulu
Blooker Prize
Telly- Tubbies - Maine Web Report
Ecotourism company makes the Green List - Melissa DeVaughn/ADN |
