Science and conservation groups around the world are struggling to keep up with the rate of climate change and it’s effects on the globe. These groups also struggle with budget limitations effecting the time and range of survey work in the field. The iEco-Reporter Program, using eco-tour operators and the general public, offers one additional tool to assist them in extending their research. At the same time, it engages and educates the public in this much needed work and the need for sustainability, conservation and preservation.

Tourism and hospitality leaders want to make your vacations and business travel a “greener” experience for you, and for the planet. Global environmental and travel organizations, suppliers and media have joined with CMI Green and BBMG to produce this first-ever, comprehensive Green Traveler Survey. Your important feedback will help airlines, cruise lines, hotels, tour operators and destinations make their operations and communications greener.

What started out as a realization has become a new book for Carol Patterson, President of Kalahari Management, a Calgary-based ecotourism consulting company. “It was on the long flight home from Africa that I suddenly realized that I was not the same person I had been when I left Canada,” Carol said. “I had changed. The country, the adventures, the people I met, the places I stayed all changed me; all for the better.” This idea of being changed by travel stuck with her and last year she decided to develop the idea. She began writing and collecting travel stories for what became Reinventure…

This site is a place for TIES team to share information and updates on the exciting initiatives we are working on in a simple and fun way, as well as an interactive space where YOU can share your thoughts and ideas! We want to invite many of our members and friends to guest-blog to share their exciting stories about ecotourism and sustainable tourism.