[green-travel] Re:Ted Turner offers sustainable tourism criteria at World Conservation

2008-10-30 Thread Victoria Mailhos Auersperg (gmail)
Thanks Peter!!! I could not explain so good as you did. I am from Uruguay, South America and agree with Peter, because we met together in Costa Rica some years ago and worked in this Tourism Certification Network of the Americas as we take part too with an Uruguayan Rural Tourism NGO and its

[green-travel] Re:Ted Turner offers sustainable tourism criteria at World Conservation

2008-10-09 Thread Megan Epler Wood
Dear Peter, I would just like to offer that consultation is a never ending process, and that there will always be organizations that somehow feel they have not been included. Having been involved with setting criteria for our vast field since 1990, I can only say that bringing all of the

[green-travel] Re:Ted Turner offers sustainable tourism criteria at World Conservation

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Krahenbuhl
I am at a loss for how to respond to this posting by fishnet, particularly with all of the incorrect facts. I am on the Steering Committee of the GSTC on behalf of Sustainable Travel International (STI), an NGO among a half a dozen or so others directly involved with the Partnership, though you

[green-travel] Re:Ted Turner offers sustainable tourism criteria at World Conservation

2008-10-08 Thread Deborah McLaren
Did you review the results of the International Indigenous Sustainable Tourism Certification online conference (from 2004)? They were available in English, Spanish and Nepali. If so, it would be helpful to learn how the recommendations were included in the work of this group/initiative. Deborah