Planeta Forum

The Private Enterprise and Financial Markets Subdepartment of The Inter-American Development Bank is pleased to invite you to a lecture in the Series TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT A Review of Competitive, Market-Based Sustainable Tourism Development Options by Megan Epler Wood Principal of EplerWood Inter...

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Megan Epler Wood, international sustainable development and ecotourism expert from Burlington, Vermont, USA is giving 2 major addresses on ecotourism at PRITHVI 2005 on February 24 and 25th 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala the legendary Malabar in India...

EplerWood International is happy to announce the release of the new color publication, Ecolodges: Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Business by the World Bank/IFC/Environmental Business Finance Program The publication can be found at http://ifcln1.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/EBFP_Ecolodg...

The Multilateral Investment Fund of the IADB is listing Sustainable Tourism is 1 of its main project clusters. Here is the link http://www.iadb.org/mif/v2/index.html It is highly important the private sector sustainable tourism and business community input into the policies for this cluster. At pres...

The question of bank policies is a subject I have been pursuing since I helped launch 2 Ecotourism Development Policy Forums in the 1990s as President of TIES in which a variety of bank representatives were asked to present their existing policies and case studies of model ecotourism projects were p...