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New Partnership to Improve Environmental and Social Practices of
International Adventure Tourism Operators
Arlington, Virginia Conservation International (CI) and the Adventure
Travel Trade Association (ATTA) the world's only global adventure travel
trade association have partnered to develop and distribute best practices
for adventure tour providers operating in sensitive environmental
destinations.
This partnership is an example of CI's continued role working hand in hand
with the travel industry to develop and promote a green supply chain
approach, in part by encouraging the adoption of environmental good
practices by the travel industry.
Many adventure travel destinations are the same extraordinary natural areas
where CI works to conserve biodiversity, says CI vice-president Dr. Fred
Boltz. Our partnership with operators like ATTA provides an effective means
of promoting the conservation of these sites and their biodiversity and
economic values. We applaud this partnership with ATTA and the opportunity
it provides to make sure that adventure destinations are still worth
traveling to in the future.
Adventure travel is increasingly popular worldwide, and approximately
one-half U.S. adults (or 98 million people) have taken an adventure trip in
the past five years. ATTA is the world's largest trade association involved
in research, education, and representation on behalf of its global
membership.
Our industry has been actively involved in environmental, economic and
cultural protection and sustainability for years, said ATTA Director Chris
Doyle. CI's critical lead work on these important matters, combined with
ATTA's marketing expertise and its access to thousands of tour operators
worldwide, we believe, will contribute to increased awareness and an
accelerated adoption of best practices among tour operators to preserve and
protect the very areas and peoples upon which our business community
depends.
This partnership will give ATTA's hundreds of member travel companies
operating around the world with access to CI's series of Practical Guides to
Good Practice - including Mountain Tours, Tropical Forests, Hotel and
Accommodations, Marine Recreation, and Marine-Galapagos. CI and ATTA are
also jointly developing a series of web-based seminars and training guides
for travel companies operating in each of these ecosystems around the world.
*About the Organizations*
Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) http://www.adventuretravel.biz
Established in 1990, the Seattle-based ATTA (www.adventuretravel.biz) is a
global membership organization dedicated to unifying, professionalizing,
promoting and responsibly growing the adventure travel market worldwide.
ATTA Members include tour operators, destination marketing organizations,
tourism boards, travel agents/agencies, guides, lodges/resorts/attractions,
media, and service providers. Host of the annual Adventure Travel World
Summit (www.adventuretravelworldsummit.com), the ATTA provides professional
support, development, education, research, marketing, career building,
networking and cost-saving resources to its members.
Conservation International http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/
Conservation International (CI) applies innovations in science, economics,
policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of
plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity
wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems. With headquarters in Washington,
D.C., CI works in more than 40 countries on four continents. For more
information about CI, visit
www.conservation.orghttp://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/.
Contact
*Rebecca Rogers*
Conservation International
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1-703-341-2764
*Chris Doyle*
Director, Adventure Travel Trade Association
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1-916-847-0261
Neel Inamdar
Senior Advisor, Ecotourism
Conservation International
2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22202
USA
Tel: 703-341-2648
Cell: 202-297-6161
Skype: Inamdar1
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