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Tourism Acronymns

TOURISM WIKI

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FLICKR ALBUM: Signage

GLOSSARY

ABC - Aboriginal Business Canada
ACOA - Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
ADB - Asian Development Bank
AMB-IFC - the private sector arm of the World Bank, empowerment financial services company
ATTA - Adventure Travel Trade Association
B&B - Bed and breakfast
B2B - Business to Business (as used in both sales and marketing, and as opposed to Business to Consumer)
BOT - Build, Operate and Transfer
CBT - Community-Based Tourism
CBE - Community Based Ecotourism
CEO – Chief Executive Officer
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
DMO - Destination Marketing Organization
FST - Planeta's Financing Sustainable Tourism Conference
GIS - Geographic Information System
GPS - Global Positioning System
GRI – Global Reporting Initiative- globally applicable sustainability reporting guidelines
GTZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (German society for technical cooperation)
IADB - Interamerican Development Bank
ICT – one of Costa Rica's Certifications of Sustainable Tourism
IDB - Interamerican Development
IFC - International Finance Corporation
IFI - International Financial Institutions
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ITB - International Tourism Exchange Berlin
JBIC - Japan Bank for International Cooperation
MET - Planeta's Media, Environment and Tourism Conference
META- Marine Ecotourism in the Atlantic Area
NGI - Non Governmental Individual
NGO - Non Governmental Organization
NTA - National Tour Association
PPPs - Public-private-partnerships
SEM - Search Engine Marketing (Efforts to have paid and unpaid listings in search engine link to your business)
SEO - Search Engine Optimization (Efforts to show up on non-paid listings in Google, Yahoo and other search engines)
SME- Small and Medium Enterprises
SRI - Socially Responsible Investing
STBW - Sustainable Tourism Bank Watch
STEP - Sustainable Tourism for Poverty Elimination
TORs - Terms of Reference
UNEP- United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNWTO - World Tourism Organization
USAID – United States Agency for International Development
WWOOF - Willing Workers on Organic Farms
WTTC - World Travel & Tourism Council

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