LINKS on the Web related to environmental and sustainable tourism in Dominican Republic.

Organizations, events and projects

This section lists available information on the web. Check also:

- our events  page
- our very furnished publications page and the links to full text documents on Ecotourism in Dominican Rep,
- our virtual library for more links to spanish full text documents,
- and our listing of sustainable/eco tourism projects in Dominican Rep.

Workshops, Fairs and Conferences

Earth Pledge Foundation's Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Nov/Dec of '95 at the Punta Cana Beach Resort in the Dominican Republic. The document of the 1996 Workshop on ecotourism in Dominican republic  (Taller Sobre Ecoturismo en la República Dominicana), report edited by Alberto Rodríguez Liriano y John Shores In French only a report of the First ecotourism fair held in june 1997 in Jarabacoa (mountains) in Dominican Rep.   from the "lettre de la conjoncture" of Haiti, (warning big doc. 183K) The 2nd Ecotourism fair help in 1998 in Dominican Rep  Eco tour Virtual  and another  web site for the same fair (1998) Segunda version de la feria Ecoturistica, The 3rd fair, 19-27 June 1999 International Conference  on Ecotourism in Dominican Republic (July 200)

Organizations and Projects involved in Ecotourism for Environmental Conservancy

• Sierra Club Quisqueya Environmental+Trekking+non+profit+Club
• CEBSE "Center for the Conservation and Eco-Development of Samaná Bay and its Surroundings ", in spanish the Centro para la Conservación y Ecodesarrollo de la Bahía de Samaná y su Entorno CEBSE, and the document Samaná Biosphere Reserve,  Dominican Republic Sustainable Development  Strategy.
• Conservacion de la Biodiversidad Costero-Marina de la Rep. Dominicana Global Environmental Fund (UNDP) in Dominican Republic web site including many specific projects as the University UNPHU 94 project that has an ecotourism component. In this GEF/UNDP site we find web pages of the organizations involved in the park projects: the Centro de Investigaciones de Biología Marina  (CIBIMA) of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo; Grupo Jaragua, Inc.; Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña  (UNPHU);
• Red de Desarrollo Sostenible: Web site for the Sustainable Development Network of Dominican Rep.
• EMPACA: Ecotourismo Mundial Paulino Cabral, consultants, services, reef balls..
• Acuario Nacional National Aquarium of Santo Domingo, web site
• Jardín Botánico Nacional: Site of the National Botanic Garden
• PRONATURA Fondo Pro Naturaleza
• ADMINISTRACION TURISTICA Y HOTELERA of UNIBE University, tourism cursus description
• Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo / Masters Program in Ecotourism
• In the OAS/OEA site Tourism Research in Dominican Rep.  are the following (selected) list of links. Information is brief and not up to date, but can be useful, to learn about who does/did what...
• Community Action Development Program
• Conservacion de Suelos, Reforestacion en la Zona de Mao
• Conservation and Management in the Coastal Zone of the Dominican Republic
• Del Este National Park - Parks In Peril Program
• Departamento Vida Silvestre
• Espeleogrupo de Santo Domingo
• Community-Based Conservation Programs
• Fondo Integrado Pro Naturaleza
• GEF Small Grants Program Dominican Republic
• Jaragua National Park - Parks In Peril Program
• Plan Sierra
• Parque del Este
• Manejo Racional de Bosques Secos
• National Water Resource Plan
• Progressio
• Proyecto GEF República Dominicana
• Support for the Organization Plan for Tourist Areas

Some links to Regional organizations:

• Responsible Tourism - Caribbean Organizations (no hyperlinks included) of Island Connoisseur - Caribbean Region
• Planeta.com's Directory of the Caribbean's Environmental Travel
• Society of Caribbean Ornithology
• Caribbean Conservation Association
• Island Resources Foundation
• Caribbean Environmental Reporters' Network (CERN)
• Caribbean Tourism Organization(CTO)
• Sustainable Tourism Development in small island developing States.
• World Bank Study to Assess the Economic Impact on Selected Tourism Caribbean Countries
• Latin American and Caribbean Conservation Data Centers Natural Heritage Network, Inter American Development Bank
• PNUMA en América Latina y el Caribe Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente