AITO announces winners of sustainable tourism awards
AITO has announced the winners of its 2011 Sustainable Tourism Awards.
Unveiling the winners, judge and environmental guru Dick Sisman said: “This year’s entries show once again the depth of understanding that AITO members and their affiliates have for projects which support communities and the environment in tourism destinations around the world.
“I am particularly pleased to see the new Roger Diski Community Project award, which remembers a remarkable man and his love for the host communities who helped to make tourism such a special event for him and continue to do so for us.”
The results are:
AITO Affiliates Green Award 2011, for the AITO business partner or tourist office deemed by the judges to best demonstrate sustainable practice in a tourism or non-tourism area
Winner: the Tenerife Tourism Corporation. Highly commended in this category was the Rezidor Hotel Group.
Most Innovative Sustainable Tourism Initiative 2011
Winner: Tribes Travel, and the joint highly-commended runners up were Wilderness Scotland and Explore.
The Roger Diski Community Project 2011
Winner: Adventure Alternative. Highly commended was Wild Frontiers Adventure Travel.
by Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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