Re: rating / evaluating tourism sustainability businesses

From: LIPSON-D (fundacion@GRUPOWONG.COM)
Date: Mon May 31 1999 - 13:28:09 AST


     Hello all,

     I looked quickly at Micha's web site and found a good bibliography,
     but I need quick answers and tools. I hope this is not to
     anti-intellectual, asking for simple answers to complex questions.
     Also, I don't have access to a library, so I need them online.

     Ideal for me would be: One or several brief documents detailing basic
     criteria for evaluating and/or certifying impacts and sustainability
     of ecotourism projects. I saw last year a survey on the website of, if
     I remember correctly, Conservation International, more or less
     designed for this purpose. Is there any consensus or any
     widely-accepted form of certification (there's something about
     Australian certification on Michas website)?

     I'd like your opinions about this, as well as another point mentioned
     below: How, and by whom, should this evaluation be done?

     Thanks,

     Dan Lipson
     Director
     Fundacion Wong
     Guayaquil, Ecuador

     www.grupowong.com/fw
     fundacion@grupowong.com
     dlipson@telconet.net

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Asunto: Re: rating / evaluating tourism sustainability businesses
Autor: "Caribbean NGO Network Workgroup (Pvt.)" <CANGONET@YorkU.CA> en
INTERNET
Fecha: 28/5/99 7:40 PM

Hi there,

references are on:

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Paradise/5066

cheers
micha

----- Original Message -----
From: Yacine Khelladi <yacine@AACR.NET>
To: <CANGONET@YORKU.CA>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 2:05 AM
Subject: rating / evaluating tourism sustainability businesses

> Hello all,
>
> 1- I need information on how to evaluate / rate, self called
> ecotouristic businesses,
> how to identify what is socially, environmentally, culturally
> sustainable...
>
> please do send me references on publications, web site, books or
> documents, or any information specialist contact or networks,
> experiences and lessons learned in similar processes,
>
> 2- also maybe you have an idea on who should participate in such
> activity, my idea is to set a network including public org. (sec of
> tourism, ecotourism department) universities (that do have some
> ecotourism classes) and environmental NGOs, any comment?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Regards
> Yacine
>
> --
> ********************************************************************
> Yacine Khelladi <yacine@aacr.net> http://www.funredes.org/yacine
> Kiskeya Alternative Destination Project Coordinator.
> http://funredes.org/yacine/kalalu/KAD
> Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
>



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