Issue 2-09, 22 March 2009
Happy Earth Day!
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Earth Day Photo Essay Competition Winner:
Joe Staiano's
"Leave only footprints and some smiles too"
"I spent 6-weeks in
MaeSot, a tiny town on the Myanmar / Thai border. MaeSot, way off
the typical tourist route, is a convergence spot where "do-good"
tourists teach English or deliver health aid to locals and Burmese
refugees"
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 Blogs:
Ecotourism in the Time of Crisis
"...the latest
crisis presents a unique opportunity: it can help reveal the resilience
and the necessity of small-scale, sustainable tourism, family &
community-owned, and prove the unsustainability of mega-resorts, in
particular all-inclusive, condo hotels and golf, the funders of which are
getting weaker by the day"
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 Publication Reviews:
Transforming Re-Forming Tourism - Perspectives on justice &
humanity in tourism
Edited by Caesar D'Mello, 248
pages, Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism, Chiang Mai,
Thailand, 2008
"Highly-readable volume brings together a
lot of writer talent, tourism knowledge & progressive
activism."
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 Headlines:
CESD
becomes Center for Responsible Travel
United States
Starving Artist? Design the Winning Andaman Discoveries Logo
Thailand
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ECOCLUB Magazine, Issue 100
now online,
download here
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ECOCLUB Weekly
is
sponsored by:
Canyon Travel
(Mexico),
La Selva Jungle Lodge
(Ecuador),
Eco Holidays Malta
(Malta),
St-Géry Historic Estate
(France)
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Ecotourism
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