Responsible Tourism :
Responsible Tourism is the application of the concept of Sustainable Development applied on Tourism Industry. Thus, Responsible Tourism is all kind of tourist development and activities which respects and preserves on long term natural, cultural & social ressources and contribute in a positive and fair way to the development and the capacity building of people who live, work and are accomodated in those spaces.
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International Coalition for Responsible Tourism is composed now by experts & professionnals of tourism industry, more than 330 NGO & associations in 88 countries, committed in responsible tourism and a comittee composed by experts in one of the 3 axes of the Sustainable Development (economic & fair, social & culture, ecology & biodiversity).
The main aim of the International Coalition is to inform, to make people sensitive, to convince, to denounce and mobilise the main actors in tourism field (professionnals, governments, national & international NGO's) to the interest of the concept of Responsible Tourism.
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News
The Second Edition of the International Day for Responsible Tourism will be organized on 2d and 3d of June 2008 in Paris (France).
The yearly topic is: "Tourism, way to eliminate Poverty"
In Paris, Haïti Destination will be the country on which a large debate will be realized.
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