2012 - Asia

 

Boonserm Tours & Travel, Bhutan 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the second time this year, Boonserm Tours & Travel will be highlighting the day with their Giving Back Program to support the Choki Traditional Art School.  A charity school in Bhutan which gives training in traditional arts and crafts skills to economically disadvantaged youths and giving them the skills for gainful employment. The organization also highlight the day on their website.

ConCERT, Cambodia 

ConCERT – Connecting Communities, Environment & Responsible Tourism – is supporting WTM WRTD for a third year.   They will be highlighting WTM WRTD this year and have been developing and delivering training sessions about child protection practices for volunteers, and hope soon to be delivering child protection training for Cambodian staff working at the projects where the volunteers work.

Footprint Vietnam Travel, Vietnam – AS389

Footprint Vietnam Travel is supporting WTM WRTD for a fourth year.  They will be highlighting the day by asking all their tour guides, drivers, guests to take part in a “clean up hour” between 09.30 and 10.30 wherever they are travelling that day.

Getaway Tours, Indonesia 

Getaway Tours will be supporting and highlighting WTM WRTD 2012 with their regular responsible tourism activities through their ‘giving back program’ from their company income.  The ‘giving back program’ donates money directly to poor children’s education.

Gypsy Trails, India 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, Gypsy Trails will be highlighting WTM WRTD 2012 with their responsible tourism bike expedition “Sea to Summit” across India, covering some 5000Kms.  During the expedition Gypsy Trails will be educating and making local people aware of responsible tourism, staying in home stays and arranging for locals to join the expedition in their region.

HACRA, India 

HACRA are supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, they will be highlighting the day during their guide training sessions and community meetings as well as informing locally run service providers in the travel industry.  The organization will also be highlighting the day on their community eco tours HACRA website.

Kakayam Resorts, India 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the second year, Kakayam Resorts will be highlighting the day through their Environmental Sustainability Campaign among local primary level schools to educate students at an early age about the importance of environmental protection and sustainability.

Lamai Homestay Guesthouse, Thailand 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time, Lamai Homestay Guesthouse is planning to highlight this special day by taking their clients to the village school where they will invite the children and village elders to join them for an afternoon of fun, food and a special talk on how important it is to retain and protect their cultural heritage sites and continue their age old customs and crafts.

Lost Earth Adventures, UK BASED 

Lost Earth Adventures will be supporting WTM WRTD for the second time this year and will highlight the day once again on their blog, http://www.lostearthadventures.co.uk/blog/worldresponsibletourism/, as well as educating their customers about the economic problems in Nepal, encouraging them to bring clothing and equipment to the people that live in the Himalayas through their Charity, Share the Load Foundation.Watch this video to find out more
 

Luxury Travel Vietnam – AS960 

Celebrating WTM WRTD once again, Luxury Travel Ltd has launched a number of new responsible tours in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The company will run in-house training sessions and workshops in their offices, highlighting to their staff the variety of initiatives and organizations that they support throughout Southeast Asia.  Luxury Travel will also highlight WTM WRTD through their website, facebook, link in, twitter and monthly newsletters.  Luxury Travel has launched a new website adventurevietnam.com to promote responsible tourism with a slogan creating better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit.

Mandore Guest House, India 

Supporting WTM WRTD for another year, Mandore Guest House organize volunteer programs and events to generate awareness among the local community and schools and they will be highlighting WTM WRTD by arranging a special event with the school and the local rural community.

Mango Cambodia, Cambodia
Mango Cambodia will highlight WTM WRTD on 7th November with their second road safety campaign, STAY SAFE.  There will be an illustrated talk to students in the Kandal province followed by practical exercises and a quiz, all focussing on road safety in Cambodian rural areas where there is no street lighting. There will be road-safety-related gifts for all participating students and prizes for those who do well in the quiz, including a brand new bicycle with reflectors and lights for the overall winner.  Each student will also receive copies of a leaflet detailing road safety tips which they will be encouraged to pass these on to friends and family, thus enabling a pyramid learning effect.

Pamir Highway Adventure, Tajikistan (UK Based) 

Pamir Highway Adventure will be supporting WTM WRTD for another year and are highlighting the day by running, and filming, training courses for homestay owners, guides and drivers across the Eastern Pamir Region.  The organization will also be installing wind turbines in the region as a provision of renewable energy.
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Rare Holidays India, India
Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, Rare Holidays India will be highlighting the day to their clients together with their newly evolved tour package, Villages and Wildlife of India.

Scubahire Limited/Beqa Divers Fiji, Fiji Islands 

Scubahire Limited are supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year and are planning to highlight the day by informing members of Fiji’s tourism industry about the World Travel Market World Responsible Tourism Day. Beqa Adventure Divers are one of Fiji’s leading ecotourism operators and they manage a holistic conservation project aimed at protecting the marine environment whilst cooperating with local stakeholders.  In order to become carbon neutral they are offsetting their carbon emissions by planting a corresponding number of mangroves in Fiji.

Selena Travel Mongolia, Mongolia – AS670 

Supporting and highlighting WTM WRTD for another year, Selena Travel Mongolia will again organise their WRTD event with the University of Humanities, Mongolia.  Educating the students about responsible tourism and its importance, how responsible tourism can be developed and how it affects the lives of communities in a positive manner.

Travel & Culture Services, Pakistan 

Travel & Culture Services will be supporting WTM WRTD in 2012 by planting a tree at the Keenjher lake for every tourist who visits the lake.  They will also be highlighting the day on their website.

Travel Inn Tour & Travels, India
Travel Inn Tour & Travels will be supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year and will be highlighting and creating local awareness about sustainable responsible tourism among their local community, highlighting the day on their website and social networking websites. The organisation will also be planting trees on Wednesday 7th November 2012.

Travel Sense Asia Co Ltd, Vietnam

Travel Sense Asia are supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year and will be celebrating the day with a special note to their customers who will be travelling with them on Wednesday 7 November 2012. Their tour guide will introduce their customers to WTM WRTD and ask them to respect the local customs and nature. The organization will also highlight this special day in their travel documents and promote it on their website. 

The Au co, Vietnam – AS580
Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, The Au Co will be highlighting the day on their website, through their social media and monthly newsletters.  They will also continue to contribute to responsible tourism throughout the development of their new project - an organic farm in Viet Hai, the support to the local community and the enhancement of ‘Reduce, Re-use and Recycle” policy in their organization.

The Zerafshan Tourism Development Association(ZTDA), Tadjikistan 

ZTDA are supporting WTM WRTD for the first time and will be highlighting the day by implementing a new project piloting the use of alternative energy sources and new technology to improve energy efficiency of their rural guest houses.  The organization also has a Handicraft Project which the organization has been implementing in the Zerafshan valley and 2012 will see them open a store in Hujand city with another store in Dushanbe as well.   ZTDA will also run their Environmental Awareness Campaign for another year in 2012. 

Tour Mongolia, Mongolia - GV370
Tour Mongolia is celebrating WTM WRTD for a second year and will be highlighting the day with their biggest annual Olympiad, “Grand Tour”, a competition among tourism students held in universities throughout Mongolia. This year’s motto is Green city-Sustainable Tourism.   The event is made up of several sessions including a knowledge competition for tourism students, a competition for sport activities, adventure activities, trekking, rafting, and a scientific conference, an exhibition by the universities and much more.  Tour Mongolia will be in charge of supporting the knowledge competition, the trekking and rafting tournaments.

Uni Travel Hub Tour & Travels, India 
Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, Uni Travel Hub Tours & Travels will be highlighting the day on their website and social media together with the promotion of their Reduce and Reuse Policy.
 

Vasco Travel, India – IN337 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, Vasco Travel will be highlighting the day by offering their guests a meal with an Indian Family and a visit to the local schools in Rajasthan, giving them an opportunity to interact with the local people. The company has been sponsoring a child in their education for the last few years and as a gesture of their support for WTM WRTD, the company will sponsor a child under the ‘Family Strengthening Programme’ of SOS Children’s Villages.

Village Ways, India 

Mr Manisha Pande will be speaking at the WTM WRTD Maximising Local Economic Development session on Tuesday 6 November, 14.00 in South Gallery Rooms 21 & 22.

 

Vino Desert Safari, India 

Supporting WTM WRTD for the first time this year, Vino Desert Safari will be highlighting the day by placing an advertisement in their local newspaper on Wednesday 7 November – Keep Desert Clean and highlighting the Cape Town Declaration points together with placing this information in their welcome to tourists.