The 2010 Conservation Award Finalists

Open to any tourism business, organisation or attraction, including lodges, hotels, or tour operators, able to demonstrate that their tourism development and operations have made a tangible contribution to the conservation of natural heritage. This includes, but is not limited to, the protection of wildlife, expanding and restoring natural habitat, and supporting biodiversity conservation.

The Finalists in this category demonstrate:

• support for conservation and protection of nature in the areas visited, 
• specific policies and activities in place to achieve conservation and have implemented those successfully, 
• direct, tangible links, where possible, between nature conservation and the economic well-being of local people, 
• support for cultural heritage, 
• and local stakeholders and guests education about conservation efforts in the areas visited.

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support. The Tourism for Tomorrow Awards are endorsed by WTTC Members, as well as other organisations and companies. They are organised in association with two Strategic Partners: Travelport and The Leading Travel Companies' Conservation Foundation. Other sponsors/supporters include: 4hoteliers, BEST Education Network, Breaking Travel News, Budget Travel, CNBC, e-TurboNews, fvw, Friends of Nature, Gap Adventures, the International Tourism Partnership/Green Hotelier, Mercado e Eventos, National Geographic Channel/Sky News, National Geographic Traveler, Planeterra, Newsweek International, the Rainforest Alliance, Reed Travel Exhibitions, Saffron Media, South China Morning Post, Simon & Baker Travel Review, Sustainable Travel International, The Economic Times of India, Tony Charters & Associates, Travel & Adventure Show, Travel Daily China, Travel Daily News, Travelmole, Travel Weekly US, Travesias, TW Group, TTN Middle East, USA Today, World Heritage Alliance.
 

Launched in 2006, Emirates Hotels & Resorts (EH&R) is Emirates Airline’s premier hospitality management division. EH&R’s philosophy centres on the two most critical global environmental issues: declining bio-diversity and emissions reduction.

This conservation-based philosophy has been successfully showcased through Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa in Dubai, UAE, which was directly responsible for proposing and now managing, the surrounding 225 km2 Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR). The same conservation-based philosophy was replicated at Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa in Australia’s Blue Mountains, which is only resort in recent history to receive permission to be built adjacent to a World Heritage Area and is the first hotel in the world to be internationally accredited as carbon neutral.

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Inkaterra is a Peruvian ecological research and tourism operations’ company, founded in 1975 and located in the Andean cloud forest as well as the Amazonia forest. Its tourism portfolio comprises Inkaterra Macchu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica lodge, boutique hotel Inkaterra La Casona in Cusco and Mapi Hotel in Maccu Picchu. Through its hotel operations as well as established ecotourism products, such as the Inkaterra Canopy Walk or the Anaconda Walk, Inkaterra funds its extensive research projectshaving led to the discovery of 15 new to science species on its premises. From the outset Inkaterra has been involved in ecological research to help conserve and protect Peru, and is the country’s first carbon-neutral tourism company.

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The Singita Grumeti Reserves concession spans over 350,000 acres of untouched wilderness in northern Tanzania. It forms part of the Serengeti Mara ecosystem on the western corridor of the Serengeti National Park, Africa’s leading World Heritage Site.

Singita Grumeti Reserves operates within an area that is one of the last greatest wildebeest migration routes left on earth. All Singita Grumeti Reserves’ operating profits are ploughed back into conservation and community benefit schemes. Its work is based on three pillars. First, wildlife conservation including the establishment of an anti-poaching unit in collaboration with the Tanzanian Wildlife Division. Second, community outreach; and third, education. Singita Grumeti Reserves represents a model of sustainable, self-funded conservation, in the process of becoming a reality.

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The winner in this category along with the winners of the Conservation, Destination Stewardship and Global Tourism Business categories will be announced during a special ceremony on 26 May 2010 at the 10th Global Travel & Tourism Summit held from 25-27 May in Beijing, China.
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Susann Kruegel
Manager, e-Strategy and Tourism for Tomorrow Awards
World Travel & Tourism Council
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Email: susann.kruegel@wttc.org
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