DIRECTORY OF PARTICIPANTS
Holly Ambrose/USA
- I have been publishing "EcoFlorida Magazine: Your Guide to Exploring
Natural Florida" for four years. I researched the idea for the
magazine for a year before the premier issue. I have spoken with
and learned from various people, from guides to government biologists
to community activists and, of course, our readers -- consumers
of nature travel -- and advertisers -- guides, tourism councils
and lodging owners.
>> http://ecofloridamag.com
Beatrice Blake/USA
- I'm the author of The New Key to Costa Rica, which has been
an effective marketing tool for ecotourism businesses for more
than 20 years. I'm also the moderator of Planeta's Reimagining
Central America Dialogue. I am very interested in promoting
community-based ecotourism in Costa Rica and elsewhere. See
my article, the CST
and The New Key" which talks about the problems with CR's
sustainable tourism certification system.
>> http://www.keytocostarica.com
Jorge Chavez de la Peña/MEXICO
>> http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/ecoturismo/jcpindex.html
Marie-Andree Delisle/CANADA
- I have been working on two projects in Guatemala for two years.
One where I have analyzed an ecotour and a plan for an ecolodge,
for a private business, and the other with an NGO in Guatemala,
developing a community tourism project based on fair trade tourism.
This subject is of interest to me in the sense that marketing
is part of my projects. Furthermore, I have written a document
during my master's degree in Tourism Planning and Management
about the Ruta Maya, comparing the commercial one with the lesser
known cultural one.
>> http://www.madelis.com
Marcus Endicott/Australia-Brazil
- I have long tried to apply the work of Carl Jung to the relation
between dreams and travel; in fact, wandering this road between
dreams and travel has become something of a pilgrimage for me...
not a travel guru, but a travel shaman! ;^)
>> http://www.mendicott.com
Megan Epler Wood/USA
- I have 23 years in international conservation and sustainable
development, 13 years in ecotourism. Founder and past-president
of The International Ecotourism Society. In year one of developing
a consulting practice that analyzes and creates market campaigns
targeting niche markets in the U.S. and Europe for sustainable
development products. Presently representing clients in Peru
and Sri Lanka. Recently completed a report on Ethical Marketing
that ties in with this forum.
>> http://www.eplerwood.com
Fernando García Aguinaco/MEXICO
- I am a freelance travel journalist and photographer. My work
includes contributing to the Michelin Tourist Guide "México,
Guatemala & Belize", former editor of Volando.com travel website
and writer for some Mexican magazines. I am also the moderator
of Mexico Ecotourism Network Forums hosted by Planeta.
Verena Gerber/MEXICO
- I am the owner of Hotel Eco Paraiso with vast experience in
ecotourism and marketing
>> http://www.ecoparaiso.com
Arantxa Guereña/COSTA RICA
- Three years in supporting community-based tourism projects
within the Small Grants Programme, United Nations Development
Programme. This work includes organizing training workshops
and publishing Community-based tourism guide for Costa Rica.
>> http://www.nu.or.cr/gef
Mary Finn/USA-ECUADOR
- I've been working for the past three years with Santa Lucía,
a community-based ecotourism operation in the Choco cloud forests
of Ecuador. My role as consultant to the community has included
marketing via the internet, as well as project management, and
training. I am also a co-founder of the recently formed EcuadorVerde
sustainable tourism network.
>> http://www.santa-lucia.org
Andrew Hammerman and Michelle Kirby/USA-ECUADOR
- We own and operate the Black Sheep Inn, a small Ecolodge in
rural Cotopaxi Province. The four-hectare property is designed
using Permaculture Ideas including organic gardens, native tree
reforestation, composting toilets, recycling, gray water filter
tanks, and adobe construction. Selected as one of the "Top 10
Ecolodges in the World" -- Outside Magazine March 2003.
>> http://www.blacksheepinn.com
Shelagh Hayes/CANADA-NICARAGUA
- I have six months experience working in sustainable tourism
in Nicaragua with COMARCA TURS, as an intern with CIDA - the
Canadian International Development Agency
Elliot Helman/USA
- Grad student in ecotourism; also working to develop ecolodge
in Malawi
Alejandra Herranz/ARGENTINA-COSTA RICA
- Environmental reporter, currently assisting RUTA Project (technical
assistance unit in co-operation for development in the field
of rural sustainable development)
>> http://www.ruta.org
Mark Howells/AUSTRALIA-BELIZE
- Design, build, market and operate our businesses for 10+ years
>> http://www.lamanai.com
Peter Hutchison/ENGLAND
- I am Freelance Journalist, Author/Editor of travel guides
covering Mexico, Central America and the Amazon. As a journalist
by interest in ecotourism is peripheral but ongoing. When possible
I write about the topic but not as a stand alone focus. And
when I write about the topic, everyone in marketing seems to
have an angle on ecotourism.
>> http://www.footprintbooks.net
Neel Inamdar/KENYA-USA
- Professional experience in this field ... more than ten years
in East Africa and Europe as both a hotelier and a tour operators.
>> http://www.eco-resorts.com
Desmond Kaplan/SOUTH AFRICA-ISRAEL
- For more than ten years I have acted as a consultant to tourism
operators and businesses, most of them small scale and in rural
areas -- marketing and image building is vital to their sustainability.
In my experience more than 70% of visitors to rural tourist
destinations come there as a result of recommendations by acquaintances
-- in other words visitors at the destination are great vehicles
for marketing inasmuch as they will play a major role in influencing
others to come or not!
>> http://www.desmondkaplan.com
Michael Kaye/USA-COSTA RICA
- I own Costa Rica Expeditions. I have six years marketing experience
in white water rafting in the US and 25 years marketing experience
in nature tourism, white water rafting and nature lodges in
Costa Rica to the U.S. market.
>> http://www.costaricaexpeditions.com
Emilio Kifuri/USA
- Canyon Travel tour operator to Mexico for 32 years and owner
of the Cerocahui Wilderness Lodge; the Hacienda Rio Batopilas;
co-owner of the Rio Vista Lodge; operator of the Tarahumara
owned the Uno Lodge. The Cerocahui and Batopilas lodges were
built in partnerships with the local ejido communities and the
Uno Lodge, a unique 100% Tarahumara owned lodge, is the only
successful government funded lodging in Chihuahua State.
>> http://www.canyontravel.com
Amy Krause/CANADA
Mountain Forum
>> http://www.mtnforum.org
Gary Kulibert/USA
Explorers Guide
- I have 17 years of experience in private industry and 32 years
in government
Ron Mader/USA-MEXICO
- For the past decade I have been the host of the Planeta website.
I am also a correspondent for Transitions Abroad magazine and
the author of guidebooks to Mexico and Honduras. My current
work is leading beyond freelancing and toward more speaking
engagements and presentations. Last year I developed the Sustainable
Development of Ecotourism Web Conference which will be cited
for the suggestions discussed online regarding promotion.
>> http://www.planeta.com
Victoria Mailhos Auersperg/URUGUAY
- I am a technical advisor in rural tourism development working
with the Uruguayan Rural Tourism Association since its foundation
1995; starting as a farm owner/hostess, then involving with
other and founder of the Uruguayan Rural Tourism Association,
through which started to develop different activities to promote
the rural tourism sector in my country Uruguay (promotion activities,
capacity building, training, farmer assessment for tourism development,
involving local and national authorities in rural tourism.
Ignacio Masias/PERU
- I am a Director and ex-CEO for Inkaterra a sustainable development
tourism group operating in Peru since 1970, serving over 30,000
tourist per year in three sites. The Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel,
Reserva Amazonica at Tambopata and Cusco. I am currently starting
a new company called Andean Lodge to develop and manage a high-end
nature resort chain in the Andes.
>> http://www.inkaterra.com
Nicola Mears/NEW ZEALAND-ECUADOR
- I have 14 years of ecotourism experience on the coast of Ecuador
>> http://www.GuacamayoTours.com
Dean Milverton/AUSTRALIA-HONDURAS
- I worked for 12 months in a NGO grassroots ecotourism program
with the Mayan Qeqchi in Guatemala and also spent two years
in a more mainstream eco-tourism tour operator where I handled
the marketing in the English-speaking market. We promote trips
to the Moskitia and cultural trips via the Travel-to-Honduras.com
website.
>> http://www.travel-to-honduras.com
Paulo Jorge Morgado Jacinto/PORTUGAL
- Most of my work has been as a researcher since 1998. I am
now advising eight final works of bachelor students from the
course of Management of Natural Resources at the Escola Superior
Agrária de Castelo Branco.
>> http://www.esa.ipcb.pt
Simon North/USA
- I have worked in the travel and tourism industry for more
than 10 years in Europe and the United States, in small companies
and at senior levels in multi-national travel corporations.
I currently run Worldsurface, an interactive travel website
that aims to provide a cost effective marketplace for tour operators
to promote themselves to an active market of international travelers.
>> http://www.worldsurface.com
Andrew Dean Nystrom/USA
- Freelance Photojournalist currently on assignment in Bolivia
for Lonely Planet. As a guidebook author with 9 years experience,
I discuss and debate marketing strategies almost daily with
a wide variety of (eco)tourism operators.
>> http://www.guidebookwriters.com/authors/andrewdean
J Palmer/AUSTRALIA
- I am the founder and editor of the Big Volcano Ecotourism
Resource Centre (ERC), with six years web design/online marketing
of tourism businesses
>> http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/ercentre/ercpage.htm
Carol Patterson/CANADA
- President, Kalahari Management and ecotourism consultant,
writer and speaker with 12 years of experience working with
communities, tourism businesses and educational institutes on
tourism development and marketing. Author of several books on
ecotourism including The Business of Ecotourism. Publisher of
the quarterly newsletter, EcoTourism Management
>> http://www.kalahari-online.com
Garry Price/AUSTRALIA
- I have been a Lecturer in tourism management at La Trobe University,
Bundoora, Victoria for the past four years with a focus on nature-based
tourism. I have 34 years experience as a secondary teacher and
administrator, including teaching of environmental studies and
four years as operator of an ecotourism business in Australia.
Ray Rodney/USA
- I have worked as international tour operator of Wilderness
Travel since 1984
Mayahuer Romero Gomez/MEXICO
- Working in alternative tourism since 2001 and presently teaching
at Quintana Roo University
>> http://www.www.uqroo.mx
Betti Sachs/US-ECUADOR
- Eight years managing Casa Mojanda; also current president
of EcuadorVerde Ecological Tourism Network and member of GIFEE,
the Internet Working Group in Favor of Ecuadorian Ecotourism
>> http://www.casamojanda.com
Alan Saffery/UK-MONGOLIA
- I am working in Mongolia -- a prime ecotourism destination
although it is not necessarily being marketed as such. I also
have a personal interest as a member of Tourism Concern in the
UK.
>> http://www.alansaffery.com
Chris Seek/USA
- I am the founder and President of Solimar Marketing, a Tourism
Marketing agency that focuses on promoting Sustainable Tourism
of the World. Currently we are focusing on Costa Rica.
>> http://www.solimarmarketing.com
John Shores/USA
- I have 30+ years promoting ecotourism, ethically or otherwise.
I never thought about the ethics of the marketing side itself,
assuming and expecting honesty from all collaborators. I have
mostly focused on the ethics and impacts of the products and
services side. And of course 40+ years as a customer of tourism
marketing. I am also the guest moderator of Planeta's IYE2002
forum.
>> http://www.geocities.com/shores_system/index.html
Jazmin Solorzano/USA
- I have worked at Global Exchange since 2002. I work with the
Cuba Program and Reality Tours.
>> http://www.globalexchange.org
Paul Graham Stanley/USA-VENEZUELA
- My business (Angel-Eco Tours) focuses entirely on Ecotourism
and Adventure Tourism in Venezuela. We are the founders of EcoAlianza
an organization aimed at uniting tour operators, NGOs and the
public sector to pool resources to market and publicize Venezuela
in North America (United States and Canada). We are also the
founders of Expoecoturismo 2002 and will follow up by producing
an International event in Puerto Ordaz this coming November.
>> http://www.angel-ecotours.com
Valere Tjolle
- I've been involved in marketing travel and tourism since the
heady days of the 1960s when the inclusive tour delivered a
really ground-breaking and valuable offer to both passenger
and destination alike. Since 1992, when I created Totem Marketing.
I have focused on delivering sales and marketing training for
sustainable, (and interesting!) tourism projects. In the UK,
former Eastern European countries and Africa.
>> http://www.totemtourismmarketing.org/eithical_marketing.htm
Bob Toth/USA
- My company has provided consulting services since 1981 in
standardization, certification, and accreditation. For the Costa
Rica Tourist Institute I developed a cost-effective system to
assure the credibility and acceptance of its Certification for
Sustainable Tourism (CST) program. I also helped the Quality
Tourism in the Caribbean program and the SmartVoyager program
in Ecuador.
Richard Tuck/CANADA-NICARAGUA
- I am the director of the COMARCA TURS Nicaragua Program, and
have been so for the past year and a half. I started out in
Nicaragua two years ago as the Rural Community Economic Development
Advisor for MEDA, a Canadian NGO, where we were looking into
Tourism as a component of Economic Diversification of rural
areas (where 70% of the population was living in poverty).
Jane Watson/ENGLAND
- I have worked in international tourism consulting, mainly
relating to developing countries, including aid-funded project
work. Main areas of focus: tourism product analysis, design,
market research and marketing; project management; and sustainable
tourism planning.
Luigi Zanini/ITALY-CAPE VERDE
- I work with tour operators as an incoming liaison with the
Cape Verde Tourism Office (CVTS) and handle reservations and
marketing for seven Casas de Campo. |
