[green-travel] Sustainable Tourism Marketing Guide
50% OFF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM MARKETING GUIDE & SUSTAINABLE TOURISM REPORT REVIEW SPECIAL OFFER Be amongst the first to read the VISION/TOTEM Sustainable Tourism Marketing Guide, get the 4th annual 2008 Sustainable Tourism Report and benefit from a 50% reduction! To benefit from the review offer (50% off the usual price) you will need to order and pay by 19 September and provide a one paragraph/50 word comment on the marketing guide. First come first served there are only 12 review copies available. Said author and report editor, Valere Tjolle " The VISION/TOTEM Sustainable Tourism Marketing Guide and the Sustainable Tourism Report are intended to provide informative, useful and stimulating resources for anyone wishing to create and market a sustainable tourism initiatives effectively. Both guides are intended to assist Outbound & Inbound Tour Operators, Travel Agents, Destination Marketing Organisations, Hotels, Resorts, Spas & Tourist Attractions" The 42-page Marketing Guide Sections include ³How Sustainability Works for Competitive Market Advantage², ³10 Sustainable Tourism Markets², ³20 Green Social Networks² and ³Top Sustainable Tourism Brands². The guide also includes 12 new innovative low cost marketing methods. The 45 page Sustainable Tourism Report puts the current challenges - food security, climate change, global economic situation, development & the MDGs, terrorism & political instability into perspective and offers opportunities to understand and overcome them. Said Valere ³there¹s a vast amount of information around today about both sustainable tourism and marketing - both these publications are designed to assist readers pick prosperous and effective paths through that information jungle." "The travel and tourism industry has never faced such enormous challenges, but then, there have never been such big opportunities either! The VISION/TOTEM Sustainable Tourism Report and the VISION/TOTEM Sustainable Tourism Marketing Report cost UK£100, US$200, Euro140 each. To obtain the Review Special Offer (the guide and the report together for UK£100, US$200, Euro140): Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "Review Special Offer" as the subject First come first served 12 copies available of each All the best Valere
[green-travel] Responsible Travel Itineraries in West Africa
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[green-travel] Re: ecotourism WHO?
Hello, everyone: I have been following the interesting debate on the "ecotourism name". Perhaps it is opportune to remember my definition of Ecotourism (officially adopted by IUCN - The World Conservation Union -, during its 1st World Conservation Congress held in Montreal in October 1996: Resolution CGR 1.67 'Ecotourism and Protected Area Conservation'): "Ecotourism is environmentally responsible travel and visitation to relatively undisturbed natural areas, in order to enjoy, study and appreciate nature (and any accompanying cultural features - both past and present), that promotes conservation, has low visitor negative impact, and provides for beneficially active socio-economic involvement of local populations" (Ceballos-Lascurain, 1996). In other words, ecotourism denotes nature tourism with a normative element. If we refer to "negative ecotourism", that means it is not ecotourism, since ecotourism by definition has to be an instrument for nature conservation as well as sustainable development. I have seen very many positive results of ecotourism in countries of all the continents, and it is definitely a better option than other unsustainable options for land use and development (like mining, speculative real estate development and mass tourism development). Arq. Hector Ceballos-Lascurain International Consultant in Environmental Architecture, Ecotourism and Regional Planning Consultor Internacional en Arquitectura Ambiental, Ecoturismo y Planeacion Regional Director General PICE Camino Real al Ajusco 551 Col. Xolalpa (Tepepan), Tlalpan 14649 Mexico DF, MEXICO Tel: (52) (55) 5676 8734; Fax: (52) (55) 5676 5285 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.ceballos-lascurain.com
[green-travel] File - green-travel posting guidelines
What is sustainability? => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability What is sustainable tourism? => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_tourism green-travel posting guidelines As of August 2008, there were over 2,100 subscribed member addresses on the green-travel group. Keep in mind though, the green-travel archives are publicly available on the web, so virtually anyone may read them as well as pick-up posted messages via major search engines. Additionally, green-travel is freely available via RSS web feed, commonly used with personal RSS feed readers such as Google Reader (http://reader.google.com/). => http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/green-travel/rss Just because the green-travel owner (Marcus L Endicott) uses the group in a certain way does not mean that the group should only be used in that way. For example, new members may wish to post brief introductory messages. In fact, old members may also wish to post updated introductory messages about themselves and their work at least once per year. Basically, subscribed members may do anything they want -- until the green-travel owner doesn't like it. The only thing Marcus Endicott has a low tolerance for is boring; in other words, if anyone is too boring for too long, he will begin to lean on them behind the scenes. (Of course, the group owner claims moderator's prerogative in exception to this rule of thumb about being boring himself! ;^)) The general feeling of the group owner is that green-travel is a highly underutilized resource; since, there are many if not most of the well known experts in the field of sustainable tourism subscribed to green-travel, who could potentially answer any question or solve any problem Although discussion is appropriate, experience has shown that traditional news release format is the most efficient way to disseminate announcements. - Messages must be in simple, plain text format, either without line returns or narrowly formatted. Attachments of any kind are automatically removed for your protection, including HTML message formatting - Please add "http://"; to all web addresses or URLs in order for them to become active or "hot" links in non-MS applications, such as the green-travel archives on the web. - Please do not quote or include entire digests or unnecessarily long messages in replies. - Also please include descriptive subject lines, including country whenever possible. Messages may be posted in languages other than English; however, non-European languages should be accompanied by a translation or summary in English or other European language. Only members may post to the group by sending to: green-travel@yahoogroups.com Non-members may send messages for the group to the group owner at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group members with Yahoo! accounts may post from the web form at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/green-travel/post Multiple email addresses may be associated with a Yahoo! account by using: http://groups.yahoo.com/memwiz What makes a good post for the green-travel group? - Good messages are on-topic, in this case at least about travel or tourism, even if only by inference. More specifically, the topic is culturally and environmentally responsible, or green, travel and tourism. - Original messages make good posts for the green-travel group. Tell us something. If its not worth your time and effort writing about something, even briefly, then its probably not worth ours reading about it. - Short messages are better than long ones, think one or two screens, one half to one page. - Good messages have good, clear subject lines, preferably including country name. (Where in the world are you?) - Good messages include "hot" links for more details; web addresses must include "http://"; to become "live" in the green-travel archives online. - Timely news releases make good messages for the green-travel group. What makes a bad post for the green-travel group? - Forwarded messages are less desirable than original ones. - One-line retorts are generally a waste of bandwidth, something like information pollution; if you need to say something like that to someone, then its better to send it directly to them privately, and not to the whole group. - Excessively long messages are generally not good. If you quote previous messages, please do so selectively; the worst is to regurgitate entire digests. - Please do not post survey forms or detailed itineraries directly to the group; in these cases, post instead to a web page (for example http://googlepages.com/) and just send a link with summary. Is the green-travel group moderated? There seems to be some confusion over whether or not the green-travel group is moderated. The answer is... sort of, semi-moderated. Over the years since the green-travel group was founded at igc.apc.org in 1991, the group has been variously completely unmoderated, completely moderat
