Exciting New Sustainable Tourism Project

(Vocus/PRWEB) March 15, 2011

Will international tourism protect or degrade the natural assets of developing countries? In its continual development of responsible travel strategies, The Lodge at Chaa Creek welcomes an exciting new sustainable tourism project now underway in Belize.
The project, a collaborative effort between Cornell University in the USA and Planeterra, a non-profit organization founded by Gap Adventure, is part of an ongoing program of "supporting communities through travellers' desire to give back."
The goal of the project is to help develop better sustainability management tools for the hospitality and tourism industry in Belize. As international tourism is now worth some US$900 billion dollars ($4 billion in Central America alone) and having a major impact on developing nations, the need to ensure that tourism provides long term benefits for host countries and not just short term gain for the industry is crucial.


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