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Responsible Tourism Week 2010: May 17-21

Responsible Tourism Week 2010 in many languagesFor the second year in a row, Planeta.com is proud to announce Responsible Tourism Week, revving up for action from May 17-21, 2010.

Created first in 2009 when the Belize Responsible Tourism Conference was cancelled due to the swine flu outbreak, RT Week, scheduled just a few weeks before World Environment Day, is “a free demonstration of Web 2.0 as a means of documenting the challenges of developing (and maintaining!) responsible tourism.”

While it takes place online and uses the latest Web-based information-sharing tools as the medium of exchange – participants will use Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube and Slideshare to document their practices – the news transmitted will always be about down-to-earth good tourism reported from around the world.

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4 Responses to “Responsible Tourism Week 2010: May 17-21”

  1. We’re in!

    Posted by Bart van Poll | May 14, 2010, 10:24 am
  2. Thanks for letting folks know about the upcoming discussion. The fun begins Monday!

    Please, please, please share news about your local efforts and how travelers can be part of the positive movement in your corner of the world.

    Posted by Ron Mader | May 14, 2010, 4:52 pm
  3. Please, please, please share news about your local efforts and how travelers can be part of the positive movement in your corner of the world.
    +1

    Posted by Johio | May 20, 2010, 12:00 am
  4. To help us plan the next steps and to help evaluate the reach of Responsible Tourism Week we ask you to please answer this survey
    http://planeta.wikispaces.com/rtweek2010

    Posted by Ron Mader | June 16, 2010, 2:49 pm

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