STI’s Director of Marketing and Communications Jeremy Sampson was a featured speaker this week at the Tourism Association of New Mexico conference in Taos, NM. He was joined on stage by STI Board Member Beth Beloff and Dr. Susan Guyette, author of Sustainable Cultural Tourism, discussing sustainable destination management and opportunities for New Mexico as the state celebrates its centennial.

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Through collaboration and resource sharing, sustainable tourism marketing partnerships succeed in delivering ROI, credibility, and integrated thinking. The result: destinations and travel companies develop plans and products designed to benefit the local community, while protecting valued tourism resources.

Introducing the brand-new sustainability program for luxury accommodations, developed by Sustainable Travel International in partnership with Leading Hotels of the World and Leading Quality Assurance.

Through June 15, our Early Adopter Program allows you to get started with the first 2 steps toward certification, while saving 10% on your total program fees.  

United's new program focuses on offset projects that go beyond climate change,  providing social and economic benefits in communities United serves. Through its partnership with Sustainable Travel International, United offers customers a choice of three carbon reduction projects: forest conservation near San Francisco, wind power in Texas, and biodiversity preservation in Belize.

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Visit United's Carbon Offsite website.

In late March, STI’s Senior Advisor for Destinations Seleni Matus returned to Cozumel to facilitate a Sustainable Destination Road Map Building Workshop, which was hosted by the Municipality of Cozumel in collaboration with Cozumel’s Grupo Intersectorial and the Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative.

STI invites you to participate in a unique educational experience! Join us for our experiential sustainability management training program, taking place this year at the Osprey Resort in Beaver Creek, Colorado, from September 29 to October 4, 2012.

Sustainable Travel International awarded Bronze-level STEP certifications to four organizations during the month of March 2012 after each successfully completed the STEP 2 desk assessment. These organizations are blazing the path toward responsible tourism throughout the industry and around the world.

LONDON -- In an effort to help maintain minimum certification standards for tourism businesses, VisitEngland, Visit Wales and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have endorsed, through an independent review by the International Centre of Responsible Tourism, Sustainable Travel International’s Sustainable Tourism Education Program (STEP) as a recognised certification programme.

PORTLAND, Oregon – Sustainable Travel International (STI) is pleased to announce that its STEP eco-certification standard has been officially recognized by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. As a result, STEP is now considered equivalent to the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria, the worldwide minimum sustainability requirements for tourism businesses of all sizes.