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Sustainability Certification of Tourism Activities


CERTIFICAÇÃO DE SUSTENTABILIDADE DAS ATIVIDADES TURÍSTICAS -
CONFERÊNCIA REGIONAL DAS AMÉRICAS
 Costa do Sauípe, 29 e 30 de setembro de 2003


Sauipe Bahia, Brazil 29-30 September 2003

Ronald Sanabria of the Rainforest Alliance leads discussion on development and implimentation of certification systems for the tourism industry.

The first Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas was launched on September 30th, 2003, at the Regional Conference of the Americas on Sustainability Certification of Tourism Activities in Bahía, Brazil, organized by the World Tourism Organization (WTO), and hosted by the Instituto de Hospitalidade and the Brazilian Government.

Click Here or on photo at right to download larger (270KB) Group Photo from Brazil Conference. For Photo Quality reproduction please contact Philip McMaster at Explorasport.

The launch of this network brought together representatives from leading certification programs in the region and other supporting organizations to exchange their own experiences related to certification and to define common objectives:

Asociación Alianza Verde, Guatemala
Programa Green Deal, Guatemala.
Asociación Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo (ASEC), Ecuador.
Conservación & Desarrollo, SmartVoyager, Ecuador.
Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST), Puerto Rico.
Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola para la Certificación Turística en el Perú (CSTP), Peru.
Conservation International (CI).
EkoSupport, Chile.
Expoecoturismo, Venezuela.
Instituto Costarricense de Turismo, Certificado para la Sostenibilidad Turística (CST), Costa Rica.
Instituto de Hospitalidade (IH), Programa de Certificação em Turismo Sustentável (PCTS), Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Ecología (INE), México.
International Indian Treaty Council and Indigenous Tourism Rights International.
Kiskeya Alternativa Certificación Program (Fundación Taiguey), Dominican Republic.
Plan 21, Argentina.
Programme for Belize, Belize.
Programa Ambiental Regional para Centroamérica (PROARCA/APM).
Rainforest Alliance.
Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT), Mexico.
Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM).
Sustainable Travel International (STI), USA.
The International Ecotourism Society (TIES).
Turismo & Conservación Consultores, Costa Rica.
World Tourism Organization, Section on Sustainable Development of Tourism.
WWF-Brazil and SOS Mata Atlantica representing the Sustainable Tourism Brazilian Council (Conselho Brasileiro de Turismo Sustentável CBTS), Brazil.


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