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2007 Adventure Travel World Summit Accommodation Partners to be Announced
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Special Summit Opportunities for Spouses & Families
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Adventure Travel Tour Operator 2006 Pulse Check
Immediately prior the 2006 Adventure Travel World
Summit, the ATTA captured some telling, confidential data
from primarily tour operators and lodges. This is the first
of what will become an annual, industry-wide survey.
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ATTA Sponsor National Geographic Adventure Delivers
Advertising Vouchers to ATTA Members
Is your organization ready to advertise your unique adventure travel product to an attractive audience of potential adventure travelers? If the answer is yes, you’ll want to consider taking advantage of National Geographic Adventure’s special offers – designed to fit vastly different marketing budgets – to members of the Adventure Travel Trade Association.
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New Resource! Adventure Travel Glossary of Terms
Volumes of new terms have entered the adventure travel lexicon in recent years. To help you make sense of all these terms and encourage industry-wide consistency in how the adventure travel community communicates with the media, consumers, partners and others, the ATTA, with contributions from several expert resources, encourages others to draw from this developing glossary of terms.
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ATTA Spearheads PR Task Force and Adventure Travel Experts Databank
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Alert! - Internet Explorer 7
Hampers Flash Movie Effectiveness: Solid Solution and SEO
Updates
PixelMill.com provides an overview of an Internet Explorer change that can cause Flash movies, in your Web site, to fail. Plus, PixelMill’s experts explain and demonstrate a workaround your team may consider that not only fixes the issue, but improves SEO (Search Engine Optimization) results for your site.
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CANAECO, the national Ecotourism Chamber of Costa Rica
www.canaeco.org
CESD
www.ecotourismcesd.org
Swedish Ecotourism Association / Nature's Best
www.naturensbasta.com
Native Energy
www.nativeenergy.com
The Nature and Ecotourism Accreditation Program (NEAP) of
Ecotourism Australia
www.ecotourism.org.au/neap
forum anders reisen (forum travel differently) of Germany
www.forumandersreisen.de
Rainforest Alliance
www.rainforest-alliance.org/tourism
The Tour Operators' Initiative
www.toinitiative.org
responsibletravel.com
www.responsibletravel.com
For additional resources on responsible tourism
(sustainable tourism, ecotourism, etc.), please visit our
online Resources.
Look for companies featuring our responsible tourism logo.
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Tour Operators: Sustainable Transportation Survey
Deadline: Feb. 28th
This project is endorsed by the Adventure Travel Trade Association and led by Dr. Wolfgang trasdas, a TIES Board member and a professor of Sustainable Tourism Management at the University of Eberswalde/Germany. Results of the survey based on your valuable input will directly contribute to ongoing development of practical and feasible sustainable transportation guidelines for tour operators. Learn more and access the survey
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Project Spotlight!
Unparalleled Active Learning Adventures Planned for Threatened Maya Underworld
What do one of the largest meteors ever known too have hit Earth, one of the most mysterious and advanced ancient civilizations ever known, the second longest barrier reef in the world, 2 billion migratory birds, the oldest human skeleton yet found in the Western Hemisphere and some of the last true physical human exploration left on the planet all have in common? They all can be found on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
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Tour Operator’s Top 10:
Integrating Greenhouse Gas Offsets into Your Daily Operations
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Giving Circles Going Global
The Clarence Foundation is an international grantmaking organization based in Oakland, California. Our mission is to promote engaged international philanthropy by catalyzing and hosting globally focused giving circles.
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Types of Claims Brought Against Recreation or Adventure Sports Providers, Educators and Land Administrators
Seven of the most common types of claims brought against commercial recreation and adventure providers.
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Brazil Starts Adventure Travel Quality and Safety Certification Program
Risk management has emerged as a real concern for Brazilian adventure travel companies, and the country’s tourism board, associated trade organizations and tour operators are embracing the challenge.
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Watch our
News & Events section for information about Trade Shows and other Special Events.
Go West Summit
Portland, OR
February 12-15, 2007
Go to Event web
site
*ATTA President Shannon Stowell will be a guest
speaker.
21st Educational Travel Conference
Chicago, IL
February 20-23, 2007
Go to Event web
site
The New York Times Travel Show
Jacob Javits Convention Center, NYC
February 23-25, 2007
Go to Event web
site
ITB Berlin
Berlin, Germany
March 7-11, 2007
Go to Event web
site
Mountain Travel Symposium
Whistler, B.C., Canada
April 15-21, 2007
Go to Event web
site
Travel & Tourism Summit
Lisbon, Potugal
May 10-12, 2007
Go to Event web
site
INDABA 2007
Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa
May 12-15, 2007
Go to Event web
site
Global Ecotourism Conference 2007
Oslo, Norway
May 14-16, 2007
Go to Event web
site
PATA Travel Mart 2007
Bali, Indonesia
September 25-28, 2007
Go to Event web
site
OIA Rendezvous
Vancouver, WA
October 3-5, 2007
Go to Event web
site
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ATTA 'Members Only' Webinar Alert: Tapping “dot-travel” & Blogging for Gain
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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ATTA Member Only Conference Call Alert
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ATTA Restructures Membership
Reduces Annual Dues for Tour Operators, Agents and
Accommodations
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ATTA Membership continues to climb in 2007...
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Chris Doyle
ATTA President Shannon Stowell attempts to catch
Whistler snowflakes...the hard way.
O.A.R.S. Announces Carbon-Neutral Travel in Collaboration with
NativeEnergy Travel Offsets
Following a year in which O.A.R.S. voluntarily offset all of the energy used at its main office in California and its Grand Canyon operation in Arizona, O.A.R.S. announces that, starting in 2007, all energy used for its domestic adventures will be 100% carbon-neutral.
~ O.A.R.S.
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Cruise West Expands AAA Management Team
Small-Ship Cruise Line Brings Nancy McConnell Onboard the AAA Sales & Marketing Staff
~ Cruise West
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Adventure Central Closes Series B Funding of $3.5 million
Prominent Silicon Valley firm Allegis Capital leads round to fuel accelerated growth and development
~ Adventure Central
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The Leader in Wilderness Education is Now a Climate Leader
NOLS offsets carbon emissions from student courses
~ NOLS
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Team to carry out medical research on Everest
A medical research team will climb Mt. Everest, the world's tallest peak, to look death in the face – and take its pulse during spring 2007.
~ Dream Nepal
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Horizontes Donates $10,000 to New Conservation Concept
When we take a breath of fresh air, pour a cool glass of water or look out over a breathtaking landscape, should we have to pay for it? In Costa Rica, a handful of businesses are saying that we should, if we expect these resources to be there for us in the long term.
~ Horizontes Nature Tours
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Visit the ATTA
Press Center to get news and information about ATTA
Members…and more.
ATTA New Member Profiles is a new Members-Only opportunity. Submission Guidelines: New ATTA Member profiles are meant to provide new ATTA members with an opportunity to present its mission and interest in the adventure travel community to the industry at large. ATTA Member profiles offer a platform for the newly joining organization to convey its industry positioning, and…
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Innovation Norway - Tourism
Innovation Norway is a company established by the Norwegian Government to promote and develop Norway as a travel destination. Our main purpose is to bring awareness of the various travel opportunities and products that exist in Norway, and that is highly attractive to the North American travel audience.
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4WD Adventure Tours, LLC
Come explore the back country for 1, 2, or 3 days while vacationing in the western United States! We provide awesome guided, self-drive, off-road Jeep adventure tours.
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Sundance
~ Alaska Exploration Cruises
Alaska Exploration Cruises is an adventure company whose primary goal is to share with visitors the overwhelming beauty of remote Alaska, to let them see the Alaska they have dreamed of.
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