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News
Eco-rated facility wins award at WTM 2008
Article by Ecotourism Kenya
The EK Team and members would like to congratulate Gamewatchers Safaris and Porini Camps for winning the Responsible Tourism Award for Best for Conservation of Endangered Species outside Protected Area at the just concluded World Travel Market(WTM) held in November in London. The winner was recognized for demonstrating that a high revenue, low impact tourism development approach can benefit the local Maasai through developing conservancies and tourism in partnership with safari companies to create employment and community income and to conserve their land for wildlife. The Responsible Tourism Awards sponsored by Virgin Holidays are the most competitive and prestigious awards of their kind in the world and are a collaboration between online travel directory responsibletravel.com, who founded and organise the Awards, UK media partners - The Daily Telegraph, Geographical Magazine and BBC World News, and World Travel Market, who host the Awards ceremony.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/greentravel/3447293/Responsible-Tourism-the-winners.html?image=8
Contact details:
Gamewatchers Safaris & Porini Camps:
Jake Grieves-Cook, Managing Director,
Email: jake@gamewatchers.co.ke,
Tel: +254-(0)20-7123129, 7122504, 7121851
Website: www.porini.com
Gamewatchers Safaris is a Corporate member of Ecotourism Kenya while Mara Porini, Porini Lion Camp and Amboseli Porini are all certified as Silver by the EK Eco-rating Scheme. The Scheme has over 32 eco-rated facilities in Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar certified as either Bronze, Silver or Gold. For further information on the scheme, visit www.ecotourismkenya.org
"Competition was tough again this year and the judges debated long and hard the Responsible Tourism achievement of the companies, organisations and individuals who had been nominated. It was good to see the achievements of some of the larger companies being recognised, demonstrating that the Responsible Tourism Movement now includes large businesses as well as the smaller specialist businesses in the UK and in destinations on five continents who did so much to establish the approach."
Dr. Harold Goodwin, Professor of Responsible Tourism Management at Leeds Metropolitan University. Chair of the Judges.
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