Wild Asia's Responsible Tourism Awards is the only tourism award of its kind in Asia. We believe that we need to reward, share and inspire change from within the travel industry, beginning with operators closest to us.

Written by Responsible Tourism Initiative on 3 Feb 2010 with 1 comment. Contribute!

Wild Asia's Responsible Tourism Awards is an annual event to recognize tourism accommodation providers in Asia that are making a difference. Established by Wild Asia in 2006, the awards are the first of their kind in Asia, as we are committed to conduct site visits and ground research, all to reward excellence in responsible tourism.

Enter Responsible Tourism Awards 2010!

Who are Wild Asia winners

Every year we make improvements to our selection process but as Wild Asia "winners" these are operators we have visited and we try to assess each property based on the following questions:

1. How well do you think the operator understands the social and environmental impacts of the operation?
2. How does the operator create a sense of place (efforts towards enriching the visitor's understanding of the destination)?
3. How will the efforts be sustained (are the efforts going to continue in the long term? Profitability? Leadership? Systems?)?
4. How does the operator communicate their efforts to the guests (how well are guests involved in their RT journey; Openness? Transparent about success and failures?)?
5. How well does the operator internalise their RT efforts (Systems? Leadership? Training? How well are sustainability efforts structured into day-2-day operations?)?
6. What is the reach of the operator's sphere of influence (the efforts to ensure that the ideas and practices are shared across the community, other businesses, local governments, etc)?

Contact us for more information.

Thank you to our supporters

Wild Asia works with partners and from the very first awards, which we ran in 2006, we have been privileged to have the timely and valuable support of these loyal supporters. Thank you!

rebecca

Member 10-Apr-2005 Posts: 1

Monday, 07 April 2008 at 10:52 PM:

What a great initiative this is :)

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