Incoming tour operator, founded in 1996, TLB Destinations offers tourism experiences in the Middle East - mainly Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. For the past 12 years, TLB Destinations has taken travellers to trips with an emphasis on “mingling” with local community and has proven that responsible tourism can significantly benefit local communities. To participate in, [...]
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the leading hotel companies, with 4,700 hotels around the world, with well-known hotel brands, including InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza® and Holiday Inn®. IHG's Corporate Responsibility programs focus on environmental sustainability, sustainable communities and disaster relief. One of IHG's environmental sustainability program, IHG Green Engage, is a system that measures the [...]
The Berlin based consultancy mascontour GmbH was founded in 2005. We are convinced that long-term competitiveness, satisfied clients and a high quality of life in destinations, can only be guaranteed when tourism development is managed in an economically, ecologically and socially sound way. Therefore our work aims at linking tourism and sustainability management innovatively and [...]
Travelife is an international certification system, promoting sustainability within the tourism industry. It helps tour operators, hotels and accommodations to manage and monitor their social and environmental impacts, as well as communicate their achievements to customers. It is an accessible sustainability system that provides members with a practical framework to improve their business. For more [...]
Universidad Tecnológica de León (UTL) Tourism Management & Development Program is aimed at training professionals to fulfill the productive and social sectors priority needs with highly trained staff. The UTL has more than 19 years of experience, all its academic programs are recognized by the National Council of Higher Education Accreditation (COPAES). The UTL was the [...]
AGEG Tourism for Sustainability Consulting provides international implementation consulting with practical approach on sustainable tourism development as well as tailor-made and innovative solutions. We are member of the AGEG Group, an association of experts and consulting company operating worldwide with over 25 years of experience in international development cooperation and sustainable development in more than 120 [...]
EarthCheck is the world's largest certifier of sustainable travel and tourism operators. With more than 1000 clients in over 70 countries, the environmental management program responds directly to the challenges posed by climate change, waste reduction and non-renewable resource management. It provides a benchmarking, certification and performance improvement system that results in average savings of 30 [...]
European Centre for Ecological and Agricultural Tourism is a European not for profit founded in 1992 in order to link tourism with sustainability. ECEAT follows a business oriented approach through the development and implementation of standards, management systems, training tools and by providing marketing support. ECEAT is co-founder of VISIT, the European association for sustainable [...]
Ecoservices Dominicana expertise is in developing environmental sustainability within organizational culture and providing a package of services that can lead to international environmental certification. This is achieved through personnel training at all levels while also providing the service capacity to retrieve and process the various recyclables. We pride ourselves on maintaining continual communication with our client base [...]
Since 1991, Ecotourism Australia (EA) has been Australia's peak industry body representing over 500 ecotourism operators and members. EA manages four certification programs for tourism businesses within Australia to promote high quality, best practice standards; ECO, Respecting our Culture (ROC),Climate Action and EcoGuide certification. Their primary product development tool – ECO certification – is a world-recognised program [...]
ECOTRANS is a European network of experts and organisations in Tourism, Environment and regional development, who are seeking to promote good practice in the field of sustainable tourism. The ECOTRANS concept was established in 1988 at the International Conference Tourism and Environment in Europe in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy. The non-profit organisation ECOTRANS e.V. was founded in 1993 [...]
Federación Colombiana de Ecoturismo, Ecoparques y Turismo de Aventura -FEDEC-, is a Colombian association of small and medium size entrepreneurs, universities and local communities, founded in 2002, with the aim to develop a word class sustainable nature and culture tourism in the country. FEDEC has been assigned by the Goverment as representative of the ecotourism [...]
Green Globe provides certification, training & education, and marketing services in over 90 countries worldwide. Based in Los Angeles, California and with representations in Latin & South America, Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, Green Globe provides certification for the sustainable operations and management of travel and tourism companies and their related supplier businesses. [...]
Green Leaf Foundation was established in 1998 by six organizations from government sector and private sector in Thailand. These participating organizations could strengthen their corporate social responsibility efforts. The significant of the GLF are environmental impact, tremendous growth, and competition for clients, the hotel industry provided a key opportunity. GLF ethos evolves around “going local”. Hotels [...]
Hostelling International (HI) is a not-for-profit registered charity (England & Wales) representing over 70 Member Associations worldwide. In 2009, the international hostelling movement celebrated its 100th birthday, and its original values of, educating people of all nations, to understand, love and care for the countryside, and each other are still true today. HI has over 4 [...]
Responsible Tourism Institute as created after the World Conference on Sustainable Tourism (1995). It is an independent organization, associated with UNESCO and UNWTO (World Tourism Organization). The IRT was founded with the aim of putting sustainable development programmes and actions into practice within the tourist industry. So, the IRT developed the RESPONSIBLE TOURISM SYSTEM (RTS) whose [...]
Khiri Travel is more than just another tour supplier. As an independently owned high-end travel supplier, Khiri offers the chance to veer off the beaten path and to discover something utterly new. Rather than simply lead tourists through the same predictable litany of guidebook highlights, our tours take adventurers deep into the heart of Southeast Asian [...]
Mount Huangshan Scenic Area Administrative Committee (HSAC) is an organization legislatively ratified by the standing committees of the People’s Congress of Anhui Province and authorized by the Huangshan Municipal Government to conduct the overall management of Mt.Huangshan.HSAC has four functions,including strategic planning, protecting the resources and environment, promoting tourism development and coordinating the interests of communities. [...]
The Rainforest Alliance is helping people to change their land-use practices, setting standards for the long-term sustainable use of resources so that we can conserve the planet’s great wealth of biodiversity and help people use the resources they need without compromising them for future generations. By reducing the deleterious impacts of forestry, agriculture and tourism — especially [...]
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd is a global cruise vacation company. Last year, our brands carried nearly four-million guests, visiting approximately 400 destinations worldwide. In everything we do, RCL is ever conscious of a very special, and very certain, responsibility. Simply put, we must protect the marine environment and sustain the wellbeing of the people and places [...]
