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From 2001-2003 Planeta.com conducted a global workshop
focusing on the pros and cons of ecotourism certification. A
Summary
and a Certification
Guide are recommended reading.
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ECO-TIP and ECO TRANS
According to the ECO-TIP database (http://www.eco-tip.org),
managed and updated by ECOTRANS (the European Network for Sustainable
Tourism Development), there are today about 40 eco-labels and
environmental awards for accommodation (including hotels, campsites,
hostels, holiday houses) in Europe. The study was concluded
in August 2000 and stated the feasibility of an European Ecolabel
for tourist accommodations, provided that a pragmatic approach
should be followed.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/248
Report on WTO's tourism certification seminar in Oaxaca
The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) has shown concern
regarding the methods to ensure quality of tourism provision
for many years, and this two-day seminar is one more in a long
list of actions that the WTO is undertaking under their programme
in quality, of the of their seven General Programmes. This seminar
took place in the frame of the 37th meeting of the WTO's Commission
for the Americas (CAM), on the 14th and 15th of May 2001 in
Oaxaca, Mexico. The composition of the audience lent itself
to a very action-oriented seminar, focusing on the transferability
of experiences.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/258
Blue Flag
The Caribbean Conservation Association (CCA), Caribbean
Tourism Organization (CTO), Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable
Tourism (CAST) and the Quality Tourism for the Caribbean (QTC)
established a regional consortium responsible for the implementation
of the Caribbean Blue Flag (CBF) Campaign. The newly formed
consortium has received the formal approval from the Foundation
for Environmental Education in Europe (FEEE) and the generous
support of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The
work of the consortium will be lead by CTO, and will also receive
the technical support of UNEP and FEEE.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/284
Comparing the ICT's Certification of Sustainable Tourism and
The New Key to Costa Rica's Sustainable Tourism
Rating - Beatrice Blake
This paper shows how the CST in its present form and presentation
does not offer reliable information about which businesses really
make an effort to offer a sustainable tourism product (because
most sustainable businesses are not on it) and how it helps big
tourism businesses compete with the visionary ecotourism businesses
that have made Costa Rica famous. The CST has become another greenwasher
itself.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/303
AAA Lodging Ratings in Baja California - David Brackney
There's a stretch of Mexico Highway 1 in Baja California
where you'll find precisely one hotel that meets the American
American Automobile Association's standards for Approved Accommodations.
That would be the Eden Loreto Resort, a highbrow, all-inclusive
getaway on the coast a few miles south of Loreto that allows
no guests under age 18, and guestrooms start at around $170
a night. That's not to say you won't find many more hotels along
that road, many of them perfectly fine and comfortable -- or
that there is some inherent flaw in AAA standards. It is a problem,
though, if you're an AAA travel writer who's trying to develop
a comprehensive Baja guidebook that will appeal to a broad readership.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/316
WWF takes the lead on tourism certification in Brazil
WWF-Brazil launches today (October 18 2001), in Florianopolis,
the brochure entitled Tourism Certification - world lessons
and recommendations for Brazil , the first publication in the
country focusing certification as a control instrument on tourism
activity and trade. The publication is the answer to a basic
question: how to assure social and environmental quality in
the Brazilian tourism activity in view of the low levels of
knowledge and professionalism in the trade, as well as the lack
of market planning?
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/314
Amid Confusion, Consensus is Emerging - IPS
How can you plan an environmentally and socially
responsible vacation? How do you know what a Green Globe, ECOTEL,
or other seal of approval really means? How do you tell "green"
rhetoric from reality? It's not easy, concludes a new report,
Protecting Paradise: Certification Programs for Sustainable
Tourism and Ecotourism. The study, written by ecotourism experts
Martha Honey and Abigail Rome, finds that with some 100-odd
"green" certification and eco-labeling programs around the world,
there is overlap, lack of uniformity, and consumer and industry
confusion.
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecotourism_certification/message/320
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