Conservation International and the Adventure Travel Trade Association are seeking ways to help the adventure travel industry integrate sustainability and good practices into their supply chain. While much has been written and is available for hotels, tour operator supply chain management information is not necessarily accessible in a practical manner.

We have therefore created the attached B2B tool which is intended to be a resource guide for tour operators seeking to integrate sustainability into their supply chain, and include this component as part of their relationship with their partners – whether in the United States or internationally. Once finalized, CI will be translating this into Spanish and French.

This is NOT meant to be an extensive piece on good practices in mountain, marine or forest ecosystems – but a tool for sharing and raising awareness in the supply chain.

We would like to invite and encourage tour operators from the industry-at-large to consider reviewing the attached document and provide by the end of August 2007 (at the latest for this initial review) directly to Conservation International with their frank and honest input with the following questions in mind:

• Would you share this information with your partners? If yes, why? If no, why?
• Is the document useful to your operation? If yes, why? If No, why?
• What can we add to the CONTENT to make it more useful?
• What ISSUES are we missing / need to address?

Please email your responses to me (n.inamdar@conservation.org) with the “B2B REVIEW” in the subject line.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration in helping to develop this tool. All contributors will be acknowledged in the document (if you would like to be).

Kind regards,

In the spirit of sharing opportunities, here are some of the close-to-final drafts of the Tropical Forest and Marine Good Practice documents.

We have an opportunity to include / feature companies that are implementing these good practices in the “good practice in action” sections of the guides. This is a way of keeping the recommendations grounded, but also a nice way to highlight a company trying to get it right.

Please encourage ATTA tour operator members to consider downloading the document, reviewing the guides, and use the “Track Changes” function to offer feedback, and then send back to me at n.inamdar@conservation.org by September 3, 2007.

Thanks,