Responsible Tourism Awards winners announced soon

Posted by Debbie Hindle on 14 October 2011 | 0 Comments

The Wednesday of World Travel Market is one of the best days of the whole week for me, because it's the day the winners of the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards are announced.

I've been involved in judging these awards for several years and each time I'm amazed by the innovation, ingenunity and passion that people show around the world to develop new ways of mitigating damaging affects of tourism, but, crucially supporting the beneficial effects that tourism can bring.

Past winners have included individual pioneers and communities who are working hard to ensure tourism benefits local people, national parks using tourism to protect and preserve critical endangered species and cities which are embedding sustainability into their entire DNA.

Every year the bar gets raised an inch higher and we learn new ideas that can be put into practice in other parts of the world and other industries. Last year's awards announcement in one of WTM's main conference rooms was so popular it was standing room only. So WTM has doubled the space for the awards this year so come along, get a seat and be inspired by the work of others.

The awards were launched by ResponsibleTravel.com and news of the winners will also appear in partners The Metro and Geographical Magazines. Follow the news on Twitter @RTAwards

The winners will be announced on Wednesday 9^th November between 11am-12pm. Huge best wishes to all the 2011 finalists.

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