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Best Practice Ecotourism & Green Globe
Benchmarking
Green Globe 21 International Ecotourism
Standard Model aims to facilitate environmentally sustainable
ecotourism. This standard for ecotourism products provides
a basis for assessing a baseline environmental management
performance standard for ecotourism products and recognizing
best practice ecotourism.
Certification of the Standard helps
to:
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Provide ecotourism
businesses with a benchmark of their performance and encourage
continual improvement of their product.
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Provide recognition
and reward for best practice performance through the standard.
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Protect local
and global environmental quality.
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Encourage contribution
to local communities and conservation.
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Improve profitability
by being less wasteful and more efficient.
Green Globe covers many travel and tourism
sectors including resorts, hotels, backpackers, ecotourism,
golf courses, marinas, restaurants, cruise ships, dive operators,
hire cars, coach tours, tour operators, railways, airlines
and even airports.
The program was launched by the Minister
for Tourism, Honorable Pita Nacuva on the 21st March, 2003
with the Ministry of Tourism and TPAF jointly sponsoring a
series of five two-day training workshops for its awareness.
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