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[Carol Patterson]

Photography can be a great revenue generator for ecotourism organizations. To learn more about Doug Adams, a tourism operator who has successfully diversified his business using photography check out my fall newsletter at http://www.kalahari-online.com/aut07.pdf

The experience he has gained can benefit many other organizations.

Carol

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For Fiji Water, a Big List of Green Goals
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: November 7, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/07fiji.html

[quote]Fiji Water, with annual sales of about $150 million, is but a drop in the bucket of the $15 billion domestic bottled-water industry. But little Fiji could make a big splash on the sustainability front ... Such moves are not winning over all environmentalists, though.

[planeta]

Boxing Day - Google News
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=boxing+day

Boxing Day - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_day

The celebration is traditional, dating back to the middle ages, and consisted of the practice of giving of gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies[3]; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); whence boxing-day."

[planeta]

Green hotels and eco-travel resources - Daily Deal Blog
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/?p=1174

What are your travel-related 2008 resolutions?[/i]

[planeta]

Are Newspapers Doomed? (Do We Care?): Newspapers & the Net Forum
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/04 ... net-forum/

The tensions created by the new economics of production and consumption are visible today in many media, from music to movies. Nowhere, though, have they been so clearly on display, and so unsettling, as in the newspaper business. Long a mainstay of culture, print journalism is going through a wrenching transformation, and its future is in doubt.

[planeta]

Greek Minister calls for new Tourism model, plays up Ecotourism
Thu May 22, 2008, 14:00 UTC
http://www.ecoclub.com/c/index.php?showtopic=8248

Athens, Greece (ECOCLUB.com) - Opening the 16th annual convention of the Greek Association of Tourism Enterprises (SETE) in Athens, Tourism Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos spoke about the need for a new, more ecological tourism model, and low-impact forms of tourism that would highlight the special attributes of the Greek environment and culture and guarantee economic and environmental sustainability.

[planeta]

Ecotourism
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=ecotourism

Responsible tourism
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=res ... ecotourism

Sustainable tourism
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=sus ... ecotourism

YOUR TURN - 2008 Tourism Definitions Survey
http://tinyurl.com/4r2mw9

Details
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/definitions.html

[jsmitchell]

The Cacaxtla archaeolgical site has reopened.

http://johnsmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/ ... opens.html

John Mitchell
Latin American Traveler

[SollSussman]

My travel story on a trip to Cartagena and the Rosario islands is now available from the San Antonio Express-News:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/trav ... c00ce.html

Soll Sussman
Austin, Texas

[planeta]

Ecotourism in a time of crisis - Andres Hammerman & Michelle Kirby
http://www.ecoclub.com/c/index.php?act= ... si&img=174

Ecotourism is a tool for conservation, poverty alleviation and sustainable living practices; therefore the year 2009 is looking very good

[planeta]

Hey campers! People are already calling the next decade "the tenties" http://ow.ly/OpVY