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Date: 19 Feb 1999 12:12 EST GMT-0400
Subject: [sustainable-tourism] Re: Commission on Sustainable -Reply
Organization: United Nations ECLAC/POS


bruce, kelly,
let me add to the congatulations. we just starting (we is the community
groups, undp, eclac) on estimating the economic impact and willingness
to pay for watching turtle nesting in Trinidad. The survey instruments are
being finalized and the survey period will take from march/april until the
end of the turtle nesting season (august)
Our work programme for 1999 also includes a beginning of focussing on
marine tourism (excluding cruiseships)
regards
erik blommestein



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Islands International magazine announces that this fall it will award 8th
Annual Ecotourism Award to a Caribbean project that best meets it twin
goals: the promotion of Caribbean tourism and the protection of an island's
environmental and/ or cultural assets.  The winner of the $1,000.00 award,
along with other winners, will be featured in the Sept. /Oct. issues and
honored at a ceremony during the Caribbean Tourism Conference. in the
Dominican Republic this Septermber.  All nominations must be received by
March 30th.  For more information, contact: Islands Magazine, fax (805)
745-7102 or (805) 569-0349 or E-mail mlm@...
<mailto:mlm@...>


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Thursday's (18 February) [US] Virgin Islands "Independent" newspaper has a
front page story by Robert Hoffman about the multiple Caribbean
incarnations  of  Malaysian multimillionaire Dato Tan Kay Hock, who it
seems has made similar extravagant  development proposals for:

1)  the so-called Asian Village (2,000 units) development in northeastern
Antigua,
2) a re-build of the decrepit and storm-wracked Yachthaven complex at the
head of Long Bay in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas, USVI,
involving a breakwater, 200 boat slips, and ; and
3) a 1,000 room "getaway" hotel at Couva in Trinidad, which Prime Minister
Panday announced, without identifying Dato Tan or Johan Holdings, last
November. Hoffman claims to have affirmed that it is Dato Tan who is behind
the Couva proposal.

Hoffman claims that all three of these projects allege to be planning
massive investments and local benefits, and that all have been negotiated
in private with national leaders, and involve property controlled directly
or indirectly by the island governments. Hoffman quotes an unnamed former
associate of Dato Tan Kay Hock, as saying. "I and others feel that the
trick is to get the land, do a little development, and then sell it off as
a project in progress and pocket a neat profit. . . Dato Tan's great
strength is his legal expertise and ability to put together 'agreements'
that are very much in his favor. He works very closely with governments in
all of his deals, and in all cases, they seem to have an interest in the
property concerned."

The contact information for the Independent is:

Virgin Islands Independent
40 Norre Gade
The Professional Building, Unit 17
Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, VI  00802

phone 340.774.7576
fax 340.774.8039

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In a recent extended cruise through the Bahamas, Kincey and I were
impressed with the very large number of FAILED development  schemes that
you encounter throughout the Bahamas, with a considerable direct physical
and environmental impact, and apparently a more subtle corrosive impact on
people's hopes, expectations, and self-image.
	 At the least, Island Resources thinks that there is a need to find ways to
quickly liquidate failed projects, so that the land and remaining assets
can be put back into economic use (and prevented from becoming a major
source of pollution) more quickly.

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Kelly --

Congratulations and good luck on your mission to the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development discussions on Sustainable Tourism. Among other
things,
this is a nice recognition and validation of the work you have been doing with
the Caribbean Hotels Association CAST project for the past two years.

The most important step that we can take to encourage sustainable tourism
is to
agree to support a scientifically sound, technically competent and fair
process
of environmental certifications for tourist areas, especially critical areas
such as coasts,  including beaches, recreational ports and reefs. The Blue
Flag
beach certification program in Europe is a model. This could also be extended
to non-coastal areas, especially high visibility natural areas with high
density tourism from so-called eco-tourism or adventure tourism, such as
trekking areas, parks, scenic overlooks, national monuments, and so on (but I
know of no models for rating these non-coastal areas).

By certifying areas, based on standard scientific monitoring, such as water
quality, benthic health and other accepted environmental quality indicators,
the certification provides a rationale for individual operators to work
together
to improve "their" area, rather than competing among themselves to achieve
"gold star" ratings for their individual facilities, while failing to address
those larger problems which can ruin an entire district. I repeat the
essential
point that hotel rating schemes and certification programmes do NOT stimulate
joint action to solve problems, which is ESSENTIAL to address the complex,
multi-dimensional environmental impacts and mitigation measures which must be
taken  to achieve sustainability at any level close to "natural baselines."

You probably know that Island Resources Foundation has a paper on Coastal
Impacts of Tourism in the Wider Caribbean on our site at http://www.irf.org.
This paper has an excellent bibliography, and may be most useful in the
analytical framework which it presents for considering and categorizing the
KINDS of tourism activity, both in terms of lodgings, and the multitude of
ancillary tourism services.

Finally, World Bank efforts to the contrary notwithstanding, there is an
enormous lack of information about the real economic benefits and
environmental
impacts of alternative tourism and tourist facilities at the local and
national
level. What, for example, are the real local impacts per tourist dollar spent
of cruiseship tourism as contrasted with guest houses; or what is the
comparative economic benefits and environmental impacts of dive tourism as
contrasted with sailing tourism?

Please keep this list informed of the results of these sessions!

bruce potter for Island Resources Foundation

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At 05:01 PM 2/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Caribbean Action for Sustainable Tourism has been named to a seven member
>delegation which will participate at the United Nations Commission on
>Sustainable Development Inter Sessional Meetings in New York on February
>23-26th.  The meeting will focus on the impact and contribution of tourism
>to sustainable development and will identify the elements of draft decision
>for negoiations during the full Commission on Sustainable Development in
>April 1999.   The purpose of the proposed tourism segment is to generate
>meaningful dialougue between governments and representatives of the
>industry, and to identify policy directions that may reinforce the positive
>impacts of tourism on sustainable development objectives.
>       The Tourism Segment will focus on the following themes:
>Industry Initiatives for Sustainable Tourism
>Influencing Consumer Behavior towards Sustainable Tourism
>Promoting Broad-based Sustainable Development through Tourism
>Coastal Impact of Tourism.
>
>
>Check out our Website at http://www.cha-cast.com
>
>Kelly Robinson <krobinson@...>
>Executive Director, Carribean Action for Sustainable Tourism
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Caribbean Action for Sustainable Tourism has been named to a seven member
delegation which will participate at the United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development Inter Sessional Meetings in New York on February
23-26th.  The meeting will focus on the impact and contribution of tourism
to sustainable development and will identify the elements of draft decision
for negoiations during the full Commission on Sustainable Development in
April 1999.   The purpose of the proposed tourism segment is to generate
meaningful dialougue between governments and representatives of the
industry, and to identify policy directions that may reinforce the positive
impacts of tourism on sustainable development objectives.  The Tourism
Segment will focus on the following themes: Industry Initiatives for
Sustainable Tourism Influencing Consumer Behavior towards Sustainable
Tourism Promoting Broad-based Sustainable Development through Tourism
Coastal Impact of Tourism.


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The Caribbean Hotel Association and American Express are sponsoring the
1999 Environmental Area Award in hopes to promote unity in environmental
efforts within an area such as a town, bay, park or other protected area.
We seek to award an area in the Caribbean which has demonstrated an
outstanding job of involving the community to improve the conservation and
environment in a tourist area.  We are looking for projects involving
conservation education programs, protection of forests, coastal areas ,
environmental education of the community and visitors, parks and rivers,
reduction of pollution, preservation and restoration of historic areas and
development of trails.

Local Caribbean Hotel Associations are eligible for the award.
Applications are available from Caribbean Local Hotel Associations and
through
CHA.  Deadline for applications is March 30th.  Winners will be announced
at CHIC 1999 in Nassau, Bahamas.

If you know of a project in your community that deserves recognition please
contact your Local Hotel Association.

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[An interesting posting from Lydia Pulsipher to the Montserrat mailing
list.  bp ]


Subject: The Lindblad cruise (fwd from "Lydia M. Pulsipher"
<lpulsipher@...>


>Via MNI-INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>
>Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:45:37 -0500
>To: mni-info@...
>From: "Lydia M. Pulsipher" <lpulsipher@...>
>
>Dear friends:
> Regarding the Lindblad organized cruise through the Caribbean,
>perhaps I
>can add a bit of perspective since I was the first to encourage Lindblad to
>stop in Montserrat.  Back in the early 1990s when Montserrat was featured
>in the SEEDS OF CHANGE exhibit at the Smithsonian (Archaologist Mac Goodwin
>and I directed a study at Galways Plantation the results of which were
>placed in this exhibit, but that is another story), I was asked by Lindblad
>to plan a trip through the Caribbean that would cover some of the impacts
>of Columbus' voyages to the "New World."  I made several of these trips as
>a lecturer on board the Sea Cloud, which is a four masted sailing vessel
>leased by Lindblad at that time.  As often as I could talk them into it, we
>stopped at Montserrat and visited the archaeological site, schools,
>government house, villages, etc.  The passengers, who on those cruises were
>nearly always very serious about  learning, were always enchanted with
>Montserat and  Montserratians were unfailingly hospitable.  In my lectures,
>I tried to lead people to reflect on the lingering meaning of colonialism
>and slavery, and to take note of the strengths of modern Caribbean
>societies.  We went to schools specifically to demonstrate how they
>outshine American schools in many ways.  I didn't have to say this
>explicitly, the point was made by the teachers and students.  Anyway, my
>hidden agenda, while ostensibly lecturing about history and archaeology,
>was to make the passengers aware of the remarkable island societies they
>were visiting.  I remember fondly that early in my experience on the Sea
>Cloud, one passenger who happened to be a well known industrialist and
>philanthropist, observed "Seems to me, we tourists are part of the problems
>these Caribbean people have to deal with!  I've been thinking of them as
>poor and powerless.  I can see I was wrong."  He was the first of many to
>make such an observation.
>
>Eventually, Rose Willock (Montserrat) and Desmond Nicholson (Antigua) took
>over for me.  Also, Lennox Honychurch from Dominica did several trips
>before he headed to graduate school in the UK.   It seemed to me that my
>lecturing about the Caribbean (I am a North American, though I have done
>field work in Montserrat for 25+ years) somehow reeked a bit of
>neo-colonialism.  Why couldn't Caribbean people do a yet better job of
>making the points I was trying to make?  Turns out they could, and probably
>with deeper lasting impact.
>
>So now Lindblad is returning to Montserrat. No doubt the friends they refer
>to are Rose, first of all, and then all the other people they came to know
>over the course of the years, including the Osbornes at the Vue Pointe who
>catered several events for the Sea Cloud.
> My one admonition is that Montserrat needs to figure out how to
>charge the
>company a fair price, but a price, for these trips through the island.  The
>company -- any tour company -- will draw on the  resources of Montserrat
>(nature, people) gratis as long as they can.  But, if Montserrat is to
>become an ecotourism center, and to make part of its living from this
>enterprise, then somehow a reasonable tarrif has to be charged both to earn
>income and to cover the costs of the environmental (and social) impact of
>visitors.
>
>Tourism seems to have wonderful potential to earn income and it appears to
>be  full of possiblities to educate the public and make them partners in
>sustainable development across the world.  But we have to tame tourism to
>make sure it fills the promise of bringing earnings to the hosts and
>enjoyment and education to the travelers.   In my opinion, at the present,
>tourism in the Caribbean is too much run for the good of "first world" tour
>companies and European and American investors (chain hotels, multi-national
>resort corporations, airlines).   I don't think Montserrat can work on this
>problem in isolation.  If it alone imposes taxes on cruises, they will
>probably just opt to go elsewhere (except for those who are really engaged
>by the volcano).  So to avoid killing the goose that might lay a golden
>egg, it would seem that as in other areas of concern in the region,  one
>comes back to the realization that a pan-Caribbean movement is needed.
>
>For those intersted in the trip, my most recent numbers for Lindblad in New
>York are 800-762-0003 or 212-765-7740
>
>All the best to everyone,  Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
>PLEASE NOTE.
>NEW EMAIL ADDRESS.
>lpulsipher@...
>
>Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, M.A., Ph.D.
>Professor, Department of Geography
>University of Tennessee
>G&G Building, Room 408
>Knoxville, TN 37996-1420
>423-524-9954
>Tel home: 423-524-9954
>Tel office: 423-974-2418
>Fax home: 423-522-7336
>
>. . . The Electronic Evergreen, courtesy of GEM Radio Network

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@...>
To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@...
<Blind.Copy.Receiver@...>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 10:28 PM
Subject: Cuba sees $20 billion tourism investment potential


>Via MNI-INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
>           Cuba sees $20 billion tourism investment potential
>
>
>
>    HAVANA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro said on
Tuesday
>he saw the potential for an investment of another $20 billion in the
>Caribbean island's booming tourism sector, but with strict limits on
>foreign participation.
>     "We want as little foreign capital and property as possible on
this
>little island called Cuba," Castro told an international economic
>conference in Havana.
>     "In this country, there is potential to invest $20 billion in
tourism,
>but it would always be half Cuban," added Castro, referring to
Havana's
>practice of maintaining a minimum 50 percent participation in joint
>ventures with foreign companies.
>     Castro, 72, who has ruled Cuba for four decades, did not say
over what
>time frame Cuba's tourism industry could absorb such a large
investment.
>     It would be nine times more than the estimated total $2.2
billion
>foreign investment payments or pledges Cuba has received in all
sectors,
>including tourism, that it started to open up around 1990.
>     Spanish, French, Canadian, Italian and Jamaican firms are
leading the
>way in investments in Cuba's tourism sector, which has overtaken
sugar to
>become the island's economic linchpin.
>     Castro said joint ventures with these countries and others were
an
>economic necessity. While the Cuban government maintains at least 50
>percent participation in the joint ventures, the bulk of the cash
>investments normally come from its foreign partners.
>     Last year, 1.4 million tourists visited Cuba, helping generate
$1.8
>billion in revenues and converting the industry into the economy's
leading
>hard-currency earner. Cuba has said it expects to host around 1.7
million
>visitors this year.
>     Canada, which opposes the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and
maintains an
>official policy of "constructive engagement" with Havana, is the
largest
>source of foreign visitors, followed by Italy, Germany, Spain,
France,
>Britain, Mexico and Argentina.
>     Cuban officials say that if the U.S. trade embargo were lifted,
the
>number of tourists would soar thanks to a likely influx of Americans
>tourists.
>     The United States effectively prohibits Americans from visiting
the
>island by banning them from spending money in the country. Exceptions
are
>made for some people, including journalists, academics and U.S.-based
>relatives of Cuban residents.
>     Tourism has helped keep afloat an economy that has been squeezed
>severely since the collapse of Cuba's former superpower ally, the
Soviet
>Union.
>     Castro's comments came during a conference on "Globalization and
>Development Problems" in Havana attended by 575 specialists from 50
>countries.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Caribbean Conservation Association <cca@...>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 7:54 AM
Subject: Assistance to ANT re heritage tourism on Sombrero


>>Return-Path: <axanat@...>
>>Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:04:15 -0400
>>From: Anguilla National Trust <axanat@...>
>>Organization: Anguilla National Trust
>>To: Caribbean Conservation Association <cca@...>
>>CC: Caribbean Tourism Organization <ctobar@...>
>>Subject: Assistance to ANT re heritage tourism on Sombrero
>>
>>Dear Glenda
>>
>>Please circulate the following plea to our members and any relevant
>>agencies you can think of.
>>
>>The Anguilla National Trust is seeking assistance in the development
of
>>a proposal for the use of Sombrero as a Heritage Tourism
destination.
>>
>>This is part of our response to the proposal by Beal Aerospace of
Texas
>>to use this offshore cay as a rocket launching facility.  Beal has
done
>>an EIA which has been criticised for inadequately addressing several
>>ecological concerns.
>>
>>For those who are yet unaware, the island is considered an important
>>seabird nesting colony which is also home to the endemic black
lizard
>>(Ameiva corvina).  The island also has heritage value for its
>>lighthouse, graves and phosphate mining ruins.
>>
>>There are also some fears that the present tourist market would be
>>negatively affected by the changed image of Anguilla with a highly
>>industrialized development so close.
>>
>>The Anguilla Archaeological and Historical Society had tentatively
>>planned to conduct heritage tours but also needs help to be able to
make
>>some projections about how revenue could be generated in this way as
an
>>alternative to Beal's proposal.
>>
>>While our government and the UK government seem favourably inclined
to
>>approve the proposed development, the Trust is of the view that we
have
>>not helped our government to consider lower impact alternatives as
we
>>have presented no proposal with projected figures etc.
>>
>>This is what we need help to do but have no money to pay for such
help.
>>
>>What we can offer is accommodation in Anguilla for whoever decides
to
>>contribute so generously.
>>
>>I certainly hope there are some takers as we may be running out of
>>time.  Our ally in the UK lobbying against the proposed development
is
>>the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.  There are also some
>>concerns about impacts to fisheries in the area - this is a concern
>>about an important aspect of Anguilla's livelihood.
>>
>>Please help us to be able to provide such an alternative for
>>consideration by the Government of Anguilla.  I hope that someone
will
>>respond positively.
>>
>>Thank you and best wishes
>>
>>Ijahnya Christian
>>Executive Director
>>--
>>Anguilla National Trust
>>P.O. Box 1234
>>The Valley, Anguilla, BWI
>>(264) 497-5297 [Phone]
>>(264) 497-5571 [Fax]
>>
>>
>>
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Punta Cana Ecological Foundation is seeking a qualified person for the
position of Director.  The Foundation operates out of the Punta Cana Beach
Resort on the east coast of the Dominican Republic. Responsibilities
include the management of a nature reserve and fruit tree plantation,
development and delivery of environmental education courses for hotel staff
and surrounding schools, facilitation of women's cooperative, and the
creation of a biodiversity center in conjunction with Cornell University.
Further opportunities include the creation of a museum to showcase Taino
Indian remains unearthed at Punta Cana, cave exploration, and reef
rehabilitation.  Applicants should be bi-lingual (English and Spanish) and
have a background in environment, education or community development.
Lodging and meals are included in the renumeration package.  For further
information, please contact: Frank Rainieri President Grupo Punta Cana via
fax:  809-541-2286


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Caribbean Action for Sustainable Tourism
Caribbean Hotel Association
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European EIBTM seeking listings for 1999 Directory

The European IBTM is publishing a "Directory of Natural Meetings and
Incentives" which includes a listing of companies and organizations within
the incentive travel and meetings industry who are actively implementing
environmental programs.  Such companies include; hotels, destinations,
convention bureaux, car rental companies, cruise lines, congress centers,
airlines, DMC's and other business tourism suppliers.  In addition, the
Directory highlights the environmental approach of leading industry
associations, among them SITE, ICCA, and AIPC.  The 1999 Directory will be
distributed to industry media and influential meeting planers and incentive
houses.
Inclusion in the Directory is free of charge.  To enter answer the
following two questions, include your contact information and fax to:
Paula Rigelsford
EIBTM Holdings Ltd
Fax: 44-1273-733253
Email: paula.rigelsford@...

Does your company have an active environmental policy, if so how is it
implemented? (100 words maximum)

what could you offer an orginiser of a meeting/incentive to make their
program green minded? (150 words maximum)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Blanchard, Jeannelle <jblancha@...>
To: 'bruce potter' <bpotter@...>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: Job announcement


>Hi Bruce
>
>I have 2 job announcements for sustainable tourism jobs which I would
like
>you to post on the newsgroup and disseminate to you colleagues.
>
>Unfortunately, I have not been able to access E-groups.  If you need
this
>information in another form, please let me know.
>
>Thank you.
>Jeannelle Blanchard
>
>Hagler Bailly Services, Inc.
>1530 Wilson Blvd, Ste 400
>Arlington, VA  22209
>tel: 703-312-9841, fax: 703-351-6166
>email: jblancha@...
>
>___________________________________________________
>Job Announcement
>Senior Tourism Development Program Manager
>International management consulting firm seeks Senior Tourism
Development
>Program Manager to work on a 2 year + USAID funded sustainable
tourism
>project in Egypt. Responsibilities include: overall management,
supervision,
>and coordination of Task Order staff; management of appropriate
design,
>development, implementation, and analysis of relevant policies,
activities
>and institutional strengthening measures;  institutional development
of the
>Environmental Monitoring Unit and the Policy Implementation Units of
the
>Egyptian Tourism Development Authority. Ensures coordination and
>collaboration with other USAID-financed contractors.
>
>Candidate should have a Master's degree in Tourism Planning or a
related
>field and at least 10 years experience. Arabic is a plus.  Requires
>relocation to Egypt.
>
>Extensive management and team building experience in developing
countries
>and with USAID policy based programs, multi-disciplinary with strong
tourism
>development policy credentials.  Strong institutional development
experience
>required.  Excellence in collaborative consensus building activities
and
>conducting counterpart dialogue at all levels.
>
>Fax resume to: 703-351-6166, or mail to:
>1530 Wilson Boulevard, Ste 400
>Arlington, VA 22209
>Attn: J. Blanchard
>EEO/H-V.
>Phone calls not accepted.
>
>
>Coastal Zone Tourism Planner
>International management consulting firm seeks Coastal Zone Tourism
Planner
>to work on a 2
>year + USAID funded sustainable tourism project in Egypt. Responsible
for
>providing training
>and institutional capacity building in coastal zone management,
>environmental impact
>assessment monitoring, and tourism development planning. Will work
closely
>with the
>environmental monitoring and policy implementation units of Tourism
>Development Authority
>(TDA).  Reports to the TDA Program Manager.
>
>Candidate should have a Master's degree in Coastal Zone Management or
an
>environmental planning related field and at least 10 years experience
>especially in Environmental Investment Assessments, coastal zone
management
>and tourism development planning. Arabic is a plus. Requires
relocation to
>Egypt.
>
>Should have strong institutional skills and excellence in
collaborative
>consensus building activities and conducting counterpart dialogue at
all
>levels.
>
>Fax resume to: 703-351-6166, or mail to:
>1530 Wilson Boulevard, Ste 400
>Arlington, VA 22209
>Attn: J. Blanchard
>EEO/H-V.
>Phone calls not accepted.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@...>
To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@...
<Blind.Copy.Receiver@...>
Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:08 PM
Subject: TOURISM-CARIBBEAN: INDUSTRY OFFICIALS NOW LOOKING ...


>Via MNI-INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
>         TOURISM-CARIBBEAN:  INDUSTRY OFFICIALS NOW LOOKING ...
>
>
>BRIDGETOWN, Jamaica, (Nov. 19) IPS - When tourism officials decided
it was
>time to begin looking at the region as a market for itself  and not
just as
>a destination, they knew that pictures of suntanned  bodies lazing on
white
>sand beaches with a dazzling blue sea  winking in the horizon could
not be
>the selling point.
>   After all, all the islands can sell the sun, sea and sand. They
>therefore needed another strategy.
>   Enter the intra-regional action plan.
>   "Each Caribbean island has its own peculiar characteristics, which
if
>marketed to each other can help to boost intra-regional travel,  said
>Jackie Austin. secretary of the St. Lucia chapter of the  Caribbean
Tourism
>Organization (CTO).
>   "Carnivals are held at different times of the year and there are
lots
>of other cultural and entertainment events which can be  packaged."
>   "Then there are countries like Dominica that place an accent on
>eco-tourism, others market themselves as shopping destinations and
then
>there is the whole question of honeymooning and family  vacations.
There
>are needless packages apart form the traditional  sun, sea and sand
which
>can be of tremendous interest to Caribbean  nations," said Austin.
>   And this is exactly what tourism officials in the region plan to
>capitalize on as they start looking to each other to boost this
fragile
>industry which is so easily affected by regional and  extra-regional
>developments.
>   Secretary General of the CTO, Jean Holder, said a group of
regional
>tourism officials have been given a mandate to come up with a plan
to get
>Caribbean people to start traveling more within the region.
>   Said Holder, "If intra-Caribbean tourism has done so well without
any
>structured initiatives, it has the potential to perform much  better
with
>greater organization and planning."
>   Intra-regional tourism arrivals reached 1.6 million in 1997.
>   "For a number of countries in the region the Caribbean is the
biggest
>market and is second only to the US market in a major  tourist
destination
>like Puerto Rico," Holder added.
>   Some 22 percent of Caribbean people who traveled within the region
in
>1997 visited Puerto Rico, with Cuba coming in second at eight
percent.
>   Overall, in 1997, 18.8 million tourists visited the Caribbean and
spent
>an estimated $16.5 billion. Of this number 9.2 million were
Americans and
>4.1 million Europeans. The remainder came from the  Caribbean, South
>America and other parts of the world.
>   "There is a large tourism potential to be achieved if the
Caribbean  is
>treated as a market as well as a destination and if the same
strategies
>and mechanisms are put in place to develop this market  as is the
case with
>respect to external markets," said Holder.
>   In its efforts to encourage more intra-regional travel the CTO
plans to
>develop a Caribbean Market Guide similar to that which it  has
created for
>other markets. There are also plans to hold an  annual Caribbean
Travel
>Market which would give different countries  in the region a chance
to show
>what is unique to each.
>   So, for instance, Jamaica could market its Reggae Sunsplash and
Reggae
>Sunfest -- two festivals which are usually held during the  summer
months
>and attract hundreds of Europeans and North  Americans.
>   St. Lucia's jazz festival, held in May, is gaining popularity,
while
>Guyana is trying to promote its eco-tourism.
>   Tourism officials speak of the roar of waterfalls, the trilling of
rare
>birds and sightings of unbelievable fauna when they speak of
eco-tourism.
>   Some three quarters of Guyana is covered by forests, only 40
percent of
>which is accessible. It is to this interior that  officials in the
industry
>hope to lure visitors intent on  discovering a new eco-tourist
destination
>and who are suffering  from sun, sand and sea fatigue.
>   "The general feeling is that it's a brilliant idea and we do think
it
>will work because in the final analysis whatever efforts we  invest
would
>redound to our benefit," said Austin.
>. . . The Electronic Evergreen, courtesy of GEM Radio Network

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[Members of this list should consider signing up for Lluis Mesalles's
BOLETIN TURISTICO, which is published out of Spain, but which has pretty
good coverage of tourism events throughout the hispanic and
portuguese-speaking world.  I have not followed this newsletter closely
enough to be able to assess its position vis-a-vis issues, such as
sustainable tourism, but I would guess that the BOLETIN sees more as
better, always.    In any event, sign on to monitor this key element of the
industry ... bruce potter  ]


>From: "Lluis Mesalles" <boletint@...>
>To: <bturistico@...>
>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:27:45 +0000
>Subject: [Boletin Turistico] Numero 94
>Reply-to: <boletint@...>
>
>***************************************************************************
>***************************************************************************
> 7 NOVIEMBRE 98    -   B O L E T I N    T U R I S T I C O     -   n=FAm  94
>***************************************************************************
> Informaciones y novedades internacionales referidas a turismo.
>***************************************************************************
>HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98
> *** 11 al 15 noviembre - Barcelona - Espa=F1a ***
> 40.000 m2 de novedades en maquinaria y m=E9todos de trabajo.=20
> Hoteles, restaurantes, mayoristas y distribuidores.=20
>HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98 - HOSTELCO 98
>***************************************************************************
>
> 1 -   EDITORIAL
> 2 -   TECNOLOGIA
> 3 -   ALOJAMIENTO
> 4 -   TERMALISMO DEPORTE Y SALUD
> 5 -   ECOTURISMO Y AVENTURA
> 6 -   TURISMO CULTURAL
> 7 -   NOTICIAS DE AMERICA
> 8 -   NOTICIAS DE EUROPA
> 9 -   NOTICIAS DE AFRICA ASIA Y OCEANIA=20
> 10 -  TRABAJO Y FORMACION
> 11 -  EMPRESAS Y NEGOCIOS
> 12 -  FERIAS Y ENCUENTROS
>
> PENSAMIENTO
>
>***************************************************************************
>1 -  E D I T O R I A L .
>***************************************************************************
>- TIEMPO COMPARTIDO AL CONGRESO En una reciente presentaci=F3n, una gran
>empresa internacional informaba a bombo y platillo del brillante presente y
>porvenir del negocio de la venta de propiedades por semanas de tiempo
>compartido. Seg=FAn sus datos, en 1997 700.000 personas hab=EDan cedido a=
  los
>encantos de sus agresivos vendedores. La presentaci=F3n implicaba: =BFporqu=
e no
>vamos a comprar tambi=E9n nosotros si tanta gente ya lo ha hecho?. 700.000
>personas no pueden estar equivocadas!
>
>* Lo que no se mencionaba, quiz=E1 por desconocimiento del entorno europeo,
>era que los importantes beneficios que representa este sector inmobiliario
>relacionado con las vacaciones en segundas residencias (muy poco con el
>turismo) han atra=EDdo hacia el a much=EDsimos desaprensivos. Ej=E9rcitos=
  de
>aguerridos encuestadores y persistentes vendedores, han hostigado a=
  incautos
>vacacionistas en cualquier momento y lugar. Las quejas de los compradores=
  al
>despertar de su seducci=F3n han llevado a los gobiernos de Europa a regular
>este op=EDparo negocio de forma mas estricta que en otros continentes.=20
>
>* Una directiva de la Uni=F3n Europea obliga a un tiempo de reflexi=F3n de=
  una
>semana para que el comprador pueda cancelar su compra y recibir=
  =EDntegramente
>cualquier cantidad de dinero que haya adelantado y anular el pr=E9stamo.=
  (Los
>prestamos para la compra de tiempo compartido eran los m=E1s r=E1pidos del
>mundo, alg=FAn banco los ha concedido en segundos, hasta con sus oficinas
>cerradas).
>
>* Ahora el Congreso de Diputados de Espa=F1a ha aprobado la Ley de
>aprovechamiento por turnos de bienes inmuebles. Esta nueva Ley incluye: El
>comprador tiene 10 d=EDas para desistir sin ninguna penalizaci=F3n. Si no
>recibi=F3 la informaci=F3n completa, puede desistir aun en tres meses.=
  Desistir
>del contrato conlleva anular el pr=E9stamo bancario. Los gastos de
>mantenimiento solo podr=E1n aumentar anualmente en funci=F3n de la=
  inflaci=F3n,
>etc.
>
>* Y no se podr=E1 utilizar la palabra MULTIPROPIEDAD en ning=FAn documento=
  ni
>publicidad. Se entiende que el t=E9rmino presta a equ=EDvocos, ya que lo=
  que se
>vende no es una propiedad plena, tan solo un derecho limitado. Una=
  inversi=F3n
>que no da rentabilidad, solo conlleva gastos y obligaciones.
>
>Ahora esta Ley debe pasar a ser aprobada por el Senado.
>
>Lluis Mesalles <boletint@...>
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>2 -  T E C N O L O G I A
>***************************************************************************
>- OLE CON OLE! / R=E9cord hispano. El idioma espa=F1ol no esta muerto, no=
  se=F1or.
>El buscador OLE, el primer buscador de INTERNET que no era en ingl=E9s, ha
>tomado una importancia impensable desde su nacimiento en 1995. Las visitas=
  a
>OLE est=E1n auditadas por la organizaci=F3n OJD (Oficina de Justificaci=F3n=
  de la
>Difusi=F3n). Si no estuvieran auditadas ser=EDan dif=EDciles de creer. *=
  Tienen
>unos 3.5 millones de hits diarios, de los cuales casi 100.000 (cienmil)
>diarios permanecen buscando mas de 10 minutos. * Sus archivos contienen mas
>de 90.000 enlaces a webs hisp=E1nicos. * El sistema de direcciones MIXMAIL=
  ya
>tiene 160.000 emails inscritos. * El sistema OLE dispone de 120 canales de
>chat. http://www.ole.es http://www.ole.com
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>3 - A L O J A M I E N T O
>***************************************************************************
>- VIETNAM / Sol Meli=E1 La agresiva firma espa=F1ola Sol Meli=E1 acaba de=
  firmar
>un acuerdo para gestionar su primer establecimiento en Vietnam. El Meli=E1
>Hanoi equivalente a un cinco estrellas, abrir=E1 en enero y a=F1adir=E1 308
>habitaciones a la oferta hotelera en la capital vietnamita.
>
>- CENTROS VACACIONALES
>Resort Locator es un site con informaci=F3n sobre destinos vacacionales en=
  los
>Estados Unidos, Canad=E1, el Caribe y M=E9xico. Cada listado tiene=
  informaci=F3n
>detallada para ayudar a organizar los planes de viaje. Hay fotos, y enlaces
>con informaciones regionales. Tambi=E9n incluye posadas y refugios.
>http://www.resortlocator.com                                     =20
>
>- THEHOTELS "Los" Hoteles
>thehotels.com es =FAnico en el hecho de que solamente relaciona
>establecimientos que ofrecen descuentos, promociones especiales y paquetes
>atractivos a los internautas. Muy centrado en hoteles asi=E1ticos, la=
  guiase
>amplia para incluir algunos mas en los Estados Unidos, Canad=E1, Francia,=
=20
>Australia y Nueva Zelanda. http://thehotels.com                            =
=20
>               =20
>
>- CUBA / Planta Hotelera
>La Oficina de turismo de Cuba nos hace llegar novedades en el sector
>hotelero. La planta hotelera cubana dispone actualmente de 28.000
>habitaciones distribuidas en 179 hoteles por todo el pa=EDs. * El nuevo=
  HOTEL
>BREEZES JIBACOA, actualmente en construcci=F3n, dispondr=E1 de 250=
  habitaciones
>de nivel 4 estrellas, ser=E1 administrado por la cadena Jamaicana
>"Superclubs". * Cayo Guillermo, una islita famosa por el Premio Nobel de
>Literatura 1954, Ernest Hemingway, dispondr=E1 en breve del VILLA DAIQUIRI,=
  un
>4 estrellas de 312 habitaciones. * Pr=F3ximamente tambi=E9n se pondr=E1n en
>servicio el HOTEL ARENAS BLANCAS, en Varadero, un 5 estrellas de 358
>habitaciones, y el VILLA COVARRUBIAS de 120.
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>4 -  T E R M A L I S M O,   D E P O R T E  Y  S A L U D
>***************************************************************************
>- GRAN CANARIA / Circuito de Velocidad. El Cabildo de Gran Canaria y el
>Ayuntamiento de San Bartolom=E9 de Tirajana son los promotores del circuito=
  de
>alta velocidad denominado Maspalomas/Gran Canaria, operativo a partir del
>2000. La inversi=F3n  en los 1,6 millones de metros cuadrados de superficie
>disponibles ser=E1 de cuatro mil millones de pesetas. ++ Noticias Intercom
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>5 -  E C O T U R I S M O  Y  A V E N T U R A
>***************************************************************************
>- PERU / Parque Nacional del Manu Uno de los m=E1s extensos parques=
  tropicales
>de Am=E9rica del Sur, en la Regi=F3n Sur-Oriental del Per=FA, enclavado en=
  los
>=FAltimos contrafuertes andinos del departamento del Cuzco y la selva de=
  Madre
>de Dios. Abarca una extensi=F3n de casi dos millones de hect=E1reas=
  cuadradas de
>un territorio pr=EDstino con una variedad de h=E1bitats sub-tropicales.=
  Este
>para=EDso natural reconocido como Reserva Mundial de la Biosfera alberga=
  una
>gran diversidad de especies end=E9micas de flora y fauna como el Caim=E1n=
  Negro,
>la Nutria Gigante, el Jaguar, trece especies de primates y m=E1s de mil
>especies de aves.... http://www.cbc.org.pe/manu/sobrema.htm Oscar Eduardo
>Pando Espinoza - ospando@...=20
>
>- TURISMO RURAL / Ecoturismo
>El Termino "Ecoturismo" fue introducido en el a=F1o 1965 por el Dr. Nicolas
>Hetzer, en Berkeley/California, en un articulo sobre "Environment, Tourism,
>Culture" en el magazine ambiental, "ECOSPHERE". Por ello se le considera el
>"padre del ecoturismo". * Lo interesante es que el ecoturismo no es un
>turismo nuevo involucrado en la naturaleza, fauna, etc. *TODO turismo,
>cualquier forma de turismo debe ser ecoturismo, cumpliendo con las 4
>condiciones m=EDnimas (Los 4 pilares del Ecoturismo). Esto es importante ya
>que 15-20 a=F1os despu=E9s de haberse introducido el termino, han parecido=
  y
>siguen pareciendo por el mundo muchas definiciones de ecoturismo que en
>esencia, no son mas que re-definiciones del turismo de naturaleza que todos
>conoc=EDamos. El 'ecoturismo' se ha puesto de moda porque muchos se han=
  dado
>cuenta que se puede ganar dinero con el turismo "verde" (del color del
>d=F3lar). Cortes=EDa de Dr. Franco Ferrari - FORUM=
  INTERNATIONAL/F.I.University
>Email: <forum@...>=20
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>6 -  T U R I S M O   C U L T U R A L
>***************************************************************************
>- HISTORIC TRAVELER / Viajero hist=F3rico Este site es el compa=F1ero de la
>publicaci=F3n impresa del mismo nombre. Hay res=FAmenes y algunos art=EDcul=
os
>completos. http://www.thehistorynet.com/HistoricTraveler
>
>- MUSEO VIRTUAL / OEA
>La Organizaci=F3n de Estados Americanos crear=E1 el museo virtual de las
>Am=E9ricas con apoyo de Microsoft. El Museo virtual conectara los museos=
  del
>continente v=EDa INTERNET para presentar sus obras de arte. Microsoft=
  aportara
>el dise=F1o y el software. El proyecto servir=E1 a Bill Gates para=
  implementar
>una nueva tecnolog=EDa de manejo de gr=E1ficos que formara parte de su=
  nuevo
>navegador Internet Explorer 5. La Fundaci=F3n Museo de las Am=E9ricas=
  llevara
>adelante el proyecto. Est=E1 recaudando 2 millones de d=F3lares para=
  iniciar la
>construcci=F3n del museo, que tendr=E1 salones subterr=E1neos en el actual=
  terreno
>de la OEA. Se espera inaugurar el museo virtual en el ano 2000, cuando se
>inicie la construcci=F3n del Museo de las Am=E9ricas.
>
>- CENTENARIO / Ferrocarril Barcelona Matar=F3 1848-1998.=20
>Actos organizados en conmemoraci=F3n del 150 aniversario del ferrocarril
>Barcelona - Matar=F3, el primero en servicio en Espa=F1a.
>http://www.infomataro.net/campanyes/tren.html
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>7 -  N O T I C I A S  DE  A M E R I C A
>***************************************************************************
>- ORINOCO / =C1lbum digital Un refrescante site en el cual unos j=F3venes
>describen con gracia y buenos recursos gr=E1ficos su paseo por el Orinoco.=
  Sin
>mas pretensi=F3n que compartir lo que debi=F3 ser un viaje muy divertido.=
  Una
>alternativa on line al tradicional =E1lbum fotogr=E1fico.=20
>http://www.ink-dc.com/orinoco/=20
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>8 -  N O T I C I A S  DE  E U R O P A
>***************************************************************************
>- ESPA=D1A / Oficina de Turismo en Usa. Este es punto de informaci=F3n=
  oficial
>en los Estados Unidos sobre turismo en Espa=F1a. La informaci=F3n incluye=
  como
>llegar, alojamiento, restaurantes, pasaportes, visados, excursiones,
>transporte, clima y otros detalles. http://www.okspain.org
>
>
>- REINO UNIDO / gu=EDa de Viajes
>El apartado de viajes de esta gu=EDa regional abarca todo lo que es viajar=
  en
>el Reino Unido. Puede navegar por las p=E1ginas o utilizar el sistema de
>b=FAsqueda para localizar lo que se desea.
>http://www.ukdirectory.com/travel/index.htm                      =20
>
>- ARENYS DE MAR / Barcelona
>Sus fiestas, su historia, el Retablo y la iglesia. Actos culturales,=
  archivo
>fotogr=E1fico, oferta tur=EDstica, informaci=F3n local, etc.
>http://www.arenysdemar.com/
>
>- EL MASNOU / Barcelona - Planeta Joven=20
>Informaci=F3n sobre el Consejo Municipal de Juventud del Masnou-=
  Ayuntamiento
>de Masnou. Los j=F3venes de Masnou en INTERNET. Agenda de actividades,
>servicios, paginas locales. http://www.ajelmasnou.es/joventut
>
>- EL VALLES OCCIDENTAL / Barcelona
>Guia completa de hoteles, restaurantes, Ayuntamientos, bancos, campings,
>agenda, monumentos, museos ... de la comarca del Valles Occidental
>http://www.cataloniaweb.com/vallesocc=20
>
>- FORMENTERA / Baleares
>Aspectos destacados de esta peque=F1a Isla Mediterr=E1nea. Gu=EDa=
  Tur=EDstica: los
>lugares mas bellos y los puntos mas interesantes de su historia, geograf=ED=
a,
>cultura fotograf=EDa, viajes, etc.
>http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/3068/NOFRACAT.HTML
>
>- PORT AVENTURA / Tarragona
>Con la llegada de los inversores de Estados Unidos, Port Aventura ya se
>exhibe en INTERNET. El Web oficial del Parque Tem=E1tico Port Aventura=
  tiene
>informaci=F3n muy completa de todo lo que el parque ofrece, situaci=F3n,
>atracciones y caracter=EDsticas. http://www.portaventura.es/
>
>- TURISMO FRANCES=20
>Este el sitio oficial de la Oficina de Turismo del Gobierno de Francia en
>los Estados Unidos. Informaci=F3n para viajes de placero negocios en=
  Francia,
>las islas francesas de Tahiti, Martinica, eventos, Par=EDs, ski,=
  alojamiento,
>transporte, compras, paquetes vocacionales y mucho m=E1s.
>http://www.francetourism.com
>
>- VALENCIA / Nueva gu=EDa de ocio
>Valencia cuenta con una nueva gu=EDa para el ocio y entretenimiento dentro=
  de
>INTERNET: Valencia Netr=F3polis. Una experiencia interactiva que combina en
>sus p=E1ginas todo lo necesario para planificar el tiempo libre. Con un=
  dise=F1o
>novedoso y sobre todo divertido, los cibernautas pueden disfrutar ahora con
>una Web dise=F1ada para albergar todas las propuestas para el ocio que
>Valencia ofrece. http://www.valnetro.com ++ Noticias Intercom
>
>
>***************************************************************************
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>Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:52:46 +0000
>Subject: [Boletin Turistico] FITUR 99 (English at bottom)
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maybe this message will stimulate a response

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The same Malaysian "developer" is alleged to be buying the old Yachthaven
Hotel at the head of Long Bay in St. Thomas Harbor, and has announced plans
to massively redevelop this key site in St. Thomas, USVI, including a
700-berth marina. I don't think the guy is real but he sure gets the go-go
development-at-any-cost politicos salivating.

Given the Asian economic troubles, it's hard to imagine that they still
have access to the scale of capital required to carry off such a massive
series of investments..

I'm so old I can remember a coconut grove where the Yachthaven parking lot
and Wendy's now is, and watching guys repair their wooden boats underneath
the palms....

best wishes

bruce potter

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At 08:46 AM 10/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>  The Asian Village Heritage Tourism Project.  Is this Sustainable Touris=
>m??
>
>
>
> January 1997,  Antiguans and Barbudans realized the extent of the  large=
>-scale "Heritage Tourism" project planned for the north eastern corner =
>of Antigua (known as the North Sound).  Since then a cloud of controversy=
> has followed the project=92s development.  The Asian Village "Heritage =
>Tourism" project is the brainchild of Tan Kay Hock, of the Malaysian firm=
>, Johan Holdings Berhad. This massive project calls for the creation of =
>artificial beaches, two 18-hole golf courses, a world class casino, condo=
>minium development, an Asian style water village, spa, shopping centers =
>and entertainment facilities. The project will encompass well over 1,000 =
>acres of Antigua (which has a total area of 69,000 acres).
>
>The proposed site comprises 500 acres of the mainland, a 400 acre offshor=
>e island -Guiana Island, another  57 acre offshore island - Crump Island =
>and approximately 8 other tiny offshore islets.  The marine and coastal =
>area is heavily used by fishermen from the nearby coastal communities. =
> Extensive fringing mangroves (the forth largest mangrove system in the =
>Lesser Antilles) and shallow seagrass beds, associated salinas and coral =
>reefs (the largest reef system on the island) has created an extremely =
>productive area for fisheries.  Terrestrially, the offshore islands are =
>home to one of the world's rarest snakes the Antiguan Racer Snake (Alsoph=
>is antiguae), they are important nesting sites for  the all of the endang=
>ered Caribbean sea turtles, and a key habitat and nesting sight for the =
> endangered West Indian Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea).  Guiana Isl=
>and is also home to Antigua's only population of the Tropical Mockingbird=
> (Mimus gilvus).  As the area is generally uninhabited, it also supports =
>the last remaining populations of nesting seabirds on Antigua.
>
>Since the project's inception, environmentalists and resource users of =
>the area have expressed strong reservations about the project and the neg=
>ative impacts that could result on this very productive coastal marine =
>environment. Despite the large land area encompassed by this project and =
>the effects to livelihood of persons in the surrounding coastal communiti=
>es, no plans have been lodged in the Development Control Authority or the=
> Fisheries Department and no public consultation has occurred, to date.
>
>Many of the environmental fears were confirmed by an Environmental Impact=
> Assessment that was made public in June 1997. The EIA states that:
>
>=93... we find the scale of the project incongruent with the nature of =
>the site.  Our main concern is with proposals to construct 1000 resort =
>rooms, water villas and commercial development on Guiana Island.
>
>"... we doubt that a project of this scale can be accommodated in the env=
>ironment without major long-term damage, despite good intentions.
>
>"  We recommend, therefore, that the project component for Guiana Island =
>be significantly reduced in scale and a more conservation oriented approa=
>ch be used in planning and design in its overall reconceptualization."
>
>To make its recommendations, the EIA carried out a series of in depth stu=
>dies of the natural resources and developed resource maps of the area. =
> The assessment found, "an environment that is sensitive yet resilient, =
>productive, and of great importance to maintaining the biological diversi=
>ty of the country.  Mangroves of the area provide a major biomass and nut=
>rient budget that along with extensive sea grass and scattered coral reef=
>s are indispensable to commercial fisheries ..."
>
>There has been constant and vociferous public protest to the Asian Villag=
>e project.  Many (approximately 10,000) have taken to the streets to demo=
>nstrate their concerns and there has been a steady stream of letters to =
>the local press, ever since the project was first made public.  There is =
>now a police guard on Guiana Island, no one without permission from the =
>Commissioner of Police is allowed on the island, and the 70 year old Wels=
>h couple that once lived on the island to take care of the island's lives=
>tock that remain when the island was a working estate, have been long evi=
>cted.
>
>Construction has not as yet begun, though first promised in January 1998 =
>and then deferred to May after the April 24th ground breaking ceremony. =
>Many hope that construction will be delayed forever.
>
>For more info:
>Environmental Awareness Group (EAG)
>PO Box 103
>St. John=92s, Antigua
>Tel/Fax: 268-462-6236
>Guiana Island Project
>www.skbee.com/alan/guianais.html.
>
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St. Thomas, VI 00802   | Washington, DC 20036  | St. John's ANTIGUA
Fone 340/775-6225        |  Fone 202/265-9712    | Fone 268/460-1740
fax  340/779-2022      | fax 202/232-0748      | fax 268/463-7740
E-mail: etowle@... | bpotter@...       | klindsay@...
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[This passed on from AnaMarija Frankic <ivan@...>
  -- bp]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> anamarija
> From: Anamarija Frankic
> To: dsst@...
> Subject: DIRECTORY (fwd)
>
>
> Dear Colleague
> CIRET has opened a website and presents an evolutive worldwide directory of
> universities and an evolutive worldwide directory of individual researchers
> involved in tourism, leisure,outdoor recreation and hospitality industry
> Your surname is not yet mentioned in these data bases. Please find herewith
> the questionnaire concerning your activities.Many thanks in advance to send
> me back that questionnaire,typewritten.
> I would appreciate very much if you could invite all the colleagues of your
> University concerned by the research on tourism, leisure and hospitality
> industry, to participate to the directory of the individual researchers and
> to send me back their personal questionnaires.
> The insertion of the informations in the directory is free of charge.
>
> Yours sincerely
> R.Baretje
> President of CIRET
> Member oh the International Academy
> for the Study of Tourism


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Fone 340/775-6225        |  Fone 202/265-9712    | Fone 268/460-1740
fax  340/779-2022      | fax 202/232-0748      | fax 268/463-7740
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To all concerned

I had previously been listed on this mailing list at
mechbest@....  I have temporarily changed my address.  I would
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The Asian Village Heritage Tourism Project.  Is this Sustainable Touris=
m??



  January 1997,  Antiguans and Barbudans realized the extent of the  large=
-scale "Heritage Tourism" project planned for the north eastern corner =
of Antigua (known as the North Sound).  Since then a cloud of controversy=
  has followed the project=92s development.  The Asian Village "Heritage =
Tourism" project is the brainchild of Tan Kay Hock, of the Malaysian firm=
, Johan Holdings Berhad. This massive project calls for the creation of =
artificial beaches, two 18-hole golf courses, a world class casino, condo=
minium development, an Asian style water village, spa, shopping centers =
and entertainment facilities. The project will encompass well over 1,000 =
acres of Antigua (which has a total area of 69,000 acres).

The proposed site comprises 500 acres of the mainland, a 400 acre offshor=
e island -Guiana Island, another  57 acre offshore island - Crump Island =
and approximately 8 other tiny offshore islets.  The marine and coastal =
area is heavily used by fishermen from the nearby coastal communities. =
  Extensive fringing mangroves (the forth largest mangrove system in the =
Lesser Antilles) and shallow seagrass beds, associated salinas and coral =
reefs (the largest reef system on the island) has created an extremely =
productive area for fisheries.  Terrestrially, the offshore islands are =
home to one of the world's rarest snakes the Antiguan Racer Snake (Alsoph=
is antiguae), they are important nesting sites for  the all of the endang=
ered Caribbean sea turtles, and a key habitat and nesting sight for the =
  endangered West Indian Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea).  Guiana Isl=
and is also home to Antigua's only population of the Tropical Mockingbird=
  (Mimus gilvus).  As the area is generally uninhabited, it also supports =
the last remaining populations of nesting seabirds on Antigua.

Since the project's inception, environmentalists and resource users of =
the area have expressed strong reservations about the project and the neg=
ative impacts that could result on this very productive coastal marine =
environment. Despite the large land area encompassed by this project and =
the effects to livelihood of persons in the surrounding coastal communiti=
es, no plans have been lodged in the Development Control Authority or the=
  Fisheries Department and no public consultation has occurred, to date.

Many of the environmental fears were confirmed by an Environmental Impact=
  Assessment that was made public in June 1997. The EIA states that:

=93... we find the scale of the project incongruent with the nature of =
the site.  Our main concern is with proposals to construct 1000 resort =
rooms, water villas and commercial development on Guiana Island.

"... we doubt that a project of this scale can be accommodated in the env=
ironment without major long-term damage, despite good intentions.

"  We recommend, therefore, that the project component for Guiana Island =
be significantly reduced in scale and a more conservation oriented approa=
ch be used in planning and design in its overall reconceptualization."

To make its recommendations, the EIA carried out a series of in depth stu=
dies of the natural resources and developed resource maps of the area. =
  The assessment found, "an environment that is sensitive yet resilient, =
productive, and of great importance to maintaining the biological diversi=
ty of the country.  Mangroves of the area provide a major biomass and nut=
rient budget that along with extensive sea grass and scattered coral reef=
s are indispensable to commercial fisheries ..."

There has been constant and vociferous public protest to the Asian Villag=
e project.  Many (approximately 10,000) have taken to the streets to demo=
nstrate their concerns and there has been a steady stream of letters to =
the local press, ever since the project was first made public.  There is =
now a police guard on Guiana Island, no one without permission from the =
Commissioner of Police is allowed on the island, and the 70 year old Wels=
h couple that once lived on the island to take care of the island's lives=
tock that remain when the island was a working estate, have been long evi=
cted.

Construction has not as yet begun, though first promised in January 1998 =
and then deferred to May after the April 24th ground breaking ceremony. =
Many hope that construction will be delayed forever.

For more info:
Environmental Awareness Group (EAG)
PO Box 103
St. John=92s, Antigua
Tel/Fax: 268-462-6236
Guiana Island Project
www.skbee.com/alan/guianais.html.

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Apologies for the double posting(s).

On the fifteenth of October I (Bruce Potter) will be starting a three-month
sabbatical on a boat trip down the Intracoastal Waterway and across to
Bahamas.
	 This should result in a substantial rest for your in-boxes. We will
continue to monitor these lists as well as we can with our cell phone and
laptop, and if you really want to know what we're up to, sign on to yet
another mailing list---"MEANDER" (the name of our boat)---as described below.

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best wishes, and see you down the ditch ---

bruce potter

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>From: Espeut, Peter <pespeut@...>
>Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 04:09 PM
>Subject: Seminar on the Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs
>
>
>>At my invitation [the Caribbean Coastal Area Management (CCAM)
>>Foundation],
>>Dr. Herman Cesar, natural resource economist from the World Bank based
>>in Washington, and Dr. Marcus Ohman, Zoology Department, University of
>>Stockholm, Sweden, are here in Jamaica to conduct an economic evaluation
>>of the natural resources in the soon-to-be-declared Portland Bight
>>Sustainable Development Area (Hellshire to near Milk River).  They will
>>assess the value of the coral reefs, seagrass beds, wetlands (including
>>mangroves), forests (including the Hellshire Hills) and all the flora
>>and fauna therein.
>>
>>This Thursday, October 1, 1998, Dr. Cesar will be giving a seminar
>>jointly hosted by CCAM and the Centre for Marine Sciences, where he will
>>present his valuation of the coral reefs of Indonesia which he conducted
>>for the World Bank in 1997.   The seminar will be held at the Botany
>>Seminar Room in the Department of Life Sciences, UWI, at 1:00pm.  Light
>>refreshments will be served.
>>
>>Please accept this invitation to attend and to interract with Dr. Cesar
>>and Dr. Ohman.
>>
>>See you there!
>>
>>Peter Espeut

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[A message passed on from the Caribbean Conservation Association ....bp]


>From: cca@... (Caribbean Conservation Association)
>Subject: International Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Small Islands
States
>
>We have received the final announcement (unfortunately we did not receive
>the previous announcements): International Conference: Sustainable Tourism
>in Small Islands Developing Countires and other Islands.  Sponsored by UNEP
>and the World Tourism Organization.
>
>The meeting is schedule to take place in Lanzarote, Canary islands, Spain,
>25-28 Ocotber 1998.  The venues is the Beatriz Hotel-Costa Teguise,
>Lanzarote.  telephone:(34) 928.59.17.77  the fax 928.59.17.85 and email:
>reervas@...
>
> Three nights accommodations and breakfast (icluding taxes), plus meals and
>refreshments indicated in the Conference Programme (two lunches and a
>reception the first day).
>
>Iberia (Spanish airlines) is the official carrier and is offering
>preferencial rates.
>
>Technical presentations:
>DAY 1
>Session 1:  The Challenge of sustainability in small islands
>                      Tourism and quality of the environment in small islands
>Session 2:  Nautical Tourism
>Session 3:  Air transport
>Session 4:  Local community involvement and economic impact
>DAY 2
>Exchange of experiences.  Working groups
>DAY 3
>Presentation of working groups.Conclusions and recommendations.
>
>You can also contact the Director
>United Nations Environment Programme
>Tour Mirabeau
>39-43 Quai Andre Citroen
>75739 Paris Cedex, 15 France
>fax:  33-1 44.37.14.74
>
>Conference in English, Spanish, French
>
>|Caribbean Conservation Association
>|Savannah Lodge, The Garrison, St. Michael, Barbados
>|Tel: 246 426 9633 or 35; Fax: 246 429 8483
>
>|Web Address: http://www.tidco.co.tt/local/seduweb/cca/cca.html|
>
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Sorry for the many duplicates on this posting --- I don't have time to weed
out
the double postings...

SIDSNet (Small Island Developing States---40-some UN members with special
recognition in the 1992 Rio UN Conference Envrionment and Development) is a
Worldwide Web (WWW) tool which many of us hope will serve as one element of a
global network to promote and enhance communications among the worldwide
island
community on issues of significance for rational/ sustainable/ affordable
development of small oceanic islands. Alternatively, it is seen by some people
as a tool of technical cooperation among countries and interest groups of the
developing world.

SIDSNet is a project of the UNDP, and at this point it may become the keystone
in the UNDP's support for the 1994  Barbados Conference on SIDS. There is
now a
great rush to build a SIDSNET website (and ancillary text-based tools, such as
mailing lists). I have been asked to help, for web-sites relevant to the
Caribbean.

I am clueless as to what they REALLY want and how they intend to use it (I
have
a message about a "Muscat search engine," but cannot imagine why people are
looking for dates or raisins or whatever it is that Muscat produces), but
here's what I will try to work into their system:

         1)      The Name of a Web Site

         2)      The URL for that Web Site

         3)      A brief narrative description of the site, no more than a
four-
or five-line paragraph.

Now we all know that the definition of a "web site,'" is pretty imprecise ---
it can be anything from a single page of HTML copy to an entire "channel"
which
points to scores of selected sites.

I leave to your common sense and discretion what sites you want to nominate
for
this exercise. By way of illustration, I think I will probably submit a single
entry for the Island Resources web site, but it could easily be  three or four
sites, based on the major elements (i.e., NGO development, biodiversity
conservation, coastal zone management, and environmental information services)
of the Foundation's program. For a big site like MicroState Resources by Mitch
Leventhal, or Peter Meincke's Small Island Information Network, I can easily
imagine that there should be a couple of dozen different entries (well, maybe
less considering the specific focus on "Small Island Developing States" ---
that would omit, for example a number of sites in Hong Kong, Singapore,
Bermuda, Okinawa, or San Andres).

Here's a first draft entry for what I would submit for Island Resources
Foundation's site:
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         1)      The Name of the Web Site

                 Island Resources Foundation

         2)      The URL for that Web Site

                 <http://www.irf.org/>

         3)      A brief description of the site.

This is a content-rich site with few links to other sites. It features several
significant information resources for the Foundation's main programs in NGO
development, biodiversity conservation, coastal zone management, and
environmental information services.  Among other gems, there is an annotated
bibliography of 2400 works on islands in the Caribbean, an up-to-date
bibliography of references on coastal zone management topics in the Wider
Caribbean, and detailed excerpts from the IUCN Red Book and the Birdlife
International descriptions of Endangered Bird Areas for the Wider Caribbean.
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So, send me your lists of sites, and I'll see that they get submitted to the
SIDSNet servers.

Some of you may get four or five copies of this notice. Sorry, just delete the
duplicates, but DO remember to reply to THIS one!

Best wishes

Bruce Potter for Island Resources Foundation
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PS -- UPDATE on HURRICANE GEORGES in the US VIRGIN ISLANDS
The US Virgin Islands came through Hurricane Georges VERY nicely. Great
illustration of the positive benefits (economic and otherwise) of preparation,
prevention or mitigation. Power and phones are largely back on,
island-wide, 30
hours after the storm. Of course, it's also the advantage of 80-mile-per hour
winds, as compared with 110! Only real problem is the lack of phone contact
with the outside world, directly attributable to the refusal of the local unit
of AT&T Long Lines to invest in simple and inexpensive back-up systems.
         Island Resources Foundation wrote the Territory's "Hazard Mitigation
Plan" in the immediate aftermath of the $1.3 BILLION losses after Hurricane
Marilyn in 1995, but the real credit for the vvast improvement in hurricane
response goes to local political leadership which decided it was no longer
going to put up with third-rate efforts when it comes to essential public
standards and efforts for fundamental issues such as building codes and
enforcement.
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This would be terrific --- also check the Island Resources site at
http://www.irf.org for a couple of articles with excellent bibliographies
on the coastal impacts of tourism...

best wishes

bruce potter for island resources foundation


At 11:03 AM 9/19/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I have a collection of World Wide Web pages which provide access
>to marine and coastal management documents that are particularly
>relevant to tourism.
>
>If these would be useful to anyone I would be happy to get them
>together and send them to this discussion group.
>
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[Members of this list with special interests in Central America and
eco-tourism
may be interested in signing up for the ELAN list which Ron Mader, the
eco-tourism journalist uses to pass on a lot of good information --- bruce
potter]




Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 18:13:15 -0600 (CST)
From: ron@... (Ron Mader)
To: elan@...
Subject: Tico Times - Tourism and Eco Problems
Message-ID: <v01540b01630b61883ccf@[10.0.2.15]>
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Mixed Signals on Tourism
Guillermo Escofet
Tico Times Staff
The government this week sent contradictory signals on its environmental
policy regarding tourism development.
On the one hand, President Miguel Angel Rodríguez defended a controversial
development on Costa Rica's north Pacific coast by Spanish hotel chain
Barceló, allegedly built without construction permits and causing much
environmental destruction (TT, July 3).
"Who hasn't destroyed a little bit of nature to build the foundations of his
house?" asked the President on National Parks Day last Friday, in reference
to
the huge holiday-villa complex and golf course the company is building next
to
its existing 400-room hotel on Playa Tambor.
On the other hand, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute launched a certificate
along the lines of the hotel-star rating system, to grade the
"sustainability"
of tourist accommodations, giving a high premium to environmentally-friendly
developments.
Called the Sustainable Tourism Certificate (CST), it went into effect on Aug.
26 by Presidential decree.
Guillermo Barceló, head of the Spanish chain's construction project, Clud de
Golf Los Delfines, gratefully latched onto Rodríguez's words of support this
week, following recent pressure from the Comptroller General's Office to
close
down the development.
Last Sunday, he issued a communiqué headlined: "I always maintained my faith
in Costa Rica."
"I heard with great emotion the words of Mr. Rodríguez Echeverría, with which
he acknowledged that Barceló is a faithful follower of Costa Rican democracy,
respectful of its laws [and] harmonious with its ecology," said Barceló in
the
press release, adding: "His speech opens the way for other companies. . . to
come and invest in this nation, in perfect harmony with nature, which is
guarded by park rangers who, working with great passion, ensure the survival
of the flora and fauna of which the country's wonderful National Parks are
composed."
In July, the Los Delfines project was convicted by the Environmental Crimes
Court for wiping out two hectares of mangrove in a protected wetland area.
The
crime was originally reported by local National Parks authority chief Luis
Mena.
Mena also accused Los Delfines of encroaching on public beach land and
extracting building material illegally from a nearby quarry.
Barceló's earlier development, Hotel Playa Tambor, built in 1992, allegedly
committed similar violations.
Rodríguez made his declaration at a ceremony in Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve in
the Pacific Province of Puntarenas, after one of the guests of honor, U.S.
environmentalist Albert Ingalls, spoke out against Barceló.
"We need Barceló," responded the President, adding that the Spanish company
is
a major investor which helped open a link to the European market, bringing
many visitors, reported the daily La Nación.
Rodríguez also said that the company has another project in the pipeline that
will create 1,000 jobs.
It's the fear of losing the 400 to 500 jobs currently generated by Los
Delfines which has stopped the Municipality of Puntarenas from closing down
the project, as instructed by the Comptroller General.
On Tuesday, during the official presentation of the new Sustainable Tourism
Certificate, ICT Executive President, Aída Fishman, refused to comment on the
President's words.
She said the certificate - which will work on a "five-leaf" principle, like
the five-star rating system - puts Costa Rica ahead in the field of
environmental protection.
The ICT has had the idea patented, and hopes it will become a standard used
internationally. Fishman explained that the country will be presenting it to
the United Nations to see if it is interested in adopting the certificate.
The CST will evaluate hotels according to their relationship with the
surrounding environment and communities, as well as customers. The facilities
will be assessed on aspects such as energy efficiency, waste management and
aesthetic design.
The sustainability principle will be followed right down to whether a hotel
restaurant uses organically-grown ingredients in its recipes or not, said
Fishman.
When asked if Barceló Playa Tambor Hotel could qualify for the certificate,
program director Rodolfo Lizano said: "We cannot condemn for life someone who
may have broken the law in the past." He added, though, that hotels with
legal
suits pending against them would not be considered.
Although described by the ICT as first of its kind in the world, the CST
has a
precursor - the Sustainable Tourism Rating introduced in 1993 by the
pioneering guidebook The New Key to Costa Rica.
Co-author Beatrice Blake was assured by the ICT that it had not lifted the
idea from her. However, Blake told The Tico Times: "It would have been nice
if
they would have acknowledged us."
Blake explained that the CST is not an exact copy of the guidebook's system,
which uses a three-sun symbol as its top rating.
"They went into a lot of areas much more in-depth than we did," she said,
adding that the guidebook chose to switch to the CST system, believing the
ICT
could do a better job because of its much bigger budget.
However, Blake is concerned that the way questions are being posed in the CST
survey may be giving too high a rating to big hotels and not enough credit to
smaller eco-lodges. For example, it's rumored that the plush, 300-room
Marriott hotel in the outskirts of San José obtained a higher rating than
private nature reserve and eco-lodge Rara Avis - which obtained a top score
in
The New Key's rating.
Lizano, the man in charge of the CST program in the ICT, denied this, saying
that only preliminary assessments have been performed for the 101 hotels that
have applied so far for the certificate. He said the way each particular case
is assessed will be made public once the final results come out, to ensure
complete transparency.
The CST program, which will be managed by an independent commission, will
work
on a voluntary basis. Only those hotels wanting to obtain a CST will be
assessed.
The certificate was designed by the ICT, with the collaboration of Harvard-
affiliated business school INCAE.
Ron Mader
El Planeta Platica: Eco Travels in Latin America
http://www.planeta.com/

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Dear moderator, I am very interested to join this group. I am coordinating
a Planof Action for the development of Sustaianble Tourism in the Caribbean
and I would like to share my experience and hear opinions from interested
persons,

Thank you

Regards,

Mercedes Silva
Sustainable Tourism Development Officer
Caribbean Tourism Organization CTO
Barbados


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