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		<title>The Tourism Sustainability Scorecard / La Ficha de Evaluación de Sostenibilidad Turística</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/the-tourism-sustainability-scorecard-la-ficha-de-evaluacion-de-sostenibilidad-turistica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ficha de Evaluación de Sostenibilidad Turística]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable management practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism Sustainability Scorecard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo sostenible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo sustentável]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB releases sustainability scorecard for private sector tourism projects

Interactive online tool enables assessment of sustainability dimensions of proposed projects

The Inter-American Development Bank today released a new Tourism Sustainability Scorecard, an interactive tool developed to ensure that the IDB’s investments in private sector tourism projects maximize social, economic, cultural and environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Green Globe Regime for Central America and the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centroamérica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[República Dominicana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible Business Alliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Green Globe International, Inc.:
Green Globe International, Inc. Announces Partnership with Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) for Central American and Caribbean Markets
Green Globe International, Inc., the worldwide owner of the Green Globe brand, has entered into an agreement with Responsible Business Alliance, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) advisory partnership, for specified markets in Central America and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buenos Aires Begins Eco-Certifying Lodging</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/buenos-aires-begins-eco-certifying-lodging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/buenos-aires-begins-eco-certifying-lodging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alojamientos turísticos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coronel Suarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-certificación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustavo Trankels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lodging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra de la Ventana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torquinst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo ecológico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo sostenible]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=4397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The program of Buenos Aires Province launched earlier this year to formally recognize &#8220;sustainable touristic lodging&#8221; is finally getting into full swing.  The provincial environment authority, OPDS, just announced the award of the first 21 certifications to lodgings in the Sierra de la Ventana (&#8220;Window Mountains&#8221;) area of Torquinst.
The program judges lodging in touristic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency Program for Caribbean Hotels Launched</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/energy-efficiency-program-for-caribbean-hotels-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/energy-efficiency-program-for-caribbean-hotels-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbados Light and Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean Hotel Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean Tourism Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CARICOM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHENACT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficiencia energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilton Barbados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ozone depleting substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNEP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Barbados Government Information Service:
CARIBBEAN HOTEL ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACTION PROGRAMME LAUNCHED
Additional income from savings in electricity/fuel bills, a reduction in operational costs; and an increased flow of tourists preferring sustainable energy tourism destinations, are just a few of the benefits expected from the Caribbean Hotel Energy Efficiency Action Programme (CHENACT).
This was announced today by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moratorium on Constructing Mega-Resorts?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/a-moratorium-on-constructing-mega-resorts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/a-moratorium-on-constructing-mega-resorts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bimini Bay Resort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Declaration of Belém]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grenada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grenada dove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mega-resorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Hartman National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Bimini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism Concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Social Forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Tourism Concern:
TOURISM CONCERN CALLS FOR HALT ON CONSTRUCTION OF MEGA-RESORTS
Campaigning organisation Tourism Concern is calling for a halt to the construction of tourism mega-resorts, claiming that they are destroying communities and are environmentally unsustainable.
The global trend in developing luxury, large-scale resorts is leading to widespread alienation and displacement of people from their land, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belize&#8217;s Tourism Plan &#8211; Sustainable?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/belizes-tourism-plan-sustainable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/belizes-tourism-plan-sustainable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambergris Caye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize Tourism Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cayo District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Placencia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsible tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Ignacio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Pedro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stann Creek District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=2665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Belize Government has announced a $13.5 million program that they say will &#8220;promote and practice responsible tourism&#8221; and which they label as a &#8220;sustainable tourism plan.&#8221;
Perhaps buried in the the plan itself (not yet available online) are the details of what actually qualifies this as sustainable or responsible tourism, since the official release about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buenos Aires Province Formally Launches Sustainable Hotel Certification System</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/buenos-aires-province-formally-launches-sustainable-hotel-certification-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alojamientos turísticos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-certificación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoteles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lodging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productos orgánicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productos químicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residuos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sector hotelero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uso eficiente del agua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uso racional de energía]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Provincial Sustainable Development Organ (OPDS) of Buenos Aires Province just launched formally the &#8220;sustainable hotels&#8221; certification program that it announced last August it would create.
The program will judge lodging in touristic destinations within the Province on their &#8220;efficient use&#8221; of natural resources, minimization of the use of toxic chemical products, maximization of the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the Environmental Policy Agenda Funded in Mexico / Mantener financiado el programa de política ambiental de México</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/keeping-the-environmental-policy-agenda-funded-in-mexico-mantener-financiado-el-programa-de-politica-ambiental-de-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Forest Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aguas residuales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco Mundial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bosques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contaminación de agua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contaminación del aire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energía]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesoamerican Biological Corridor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saneamiento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable forestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uso eficiente del agua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vivienda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the World Bank:
US$401 Million for Environmental Sustainability
The World Bank (WB) Executive Board of Directors approved today a US$401 million loan to the Mexican government for the Environmental Sustainability Development Policy Project to compensate for a tight public sector budget during this trimester.
This financing is in addition to the US$300.75 million loan approved last October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Belize Tourism More Sustainable?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/making-belize-tourism-more-sustainable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/making-belize-tourism-more-sustainable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambergris Caye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach erosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cayo District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garifuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Placencia peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Ignacio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stann Creek District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo sostenible]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Temas Note: What I like about this loan is that it explicitly seeks to incorporate &#8220;sustainable tourism criteria&#8221; (hopefully the recently announced global criteria) into the master plan that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will help the Government of Belize to develop, and it makes provisions for helping small businesses meet the costs of upgrading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDB &amp; The National Geographic Society Join Forces to Promote Sustainable Tourism</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/sustainable-tourism/idb-the-national-geographic-society-join-forces-to-promote-sustainable-tourism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aerolíneas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadenas hoteleras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOMIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geotourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoturismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel chains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turismo sostenible]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB, The National Geographic Society to jointly promote sustainable tourism
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and The National Geographic Society have joined efforts to promote initiatives aimed at developing sustainable tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno and John Fahey, President of The National Geographic Society (NGS), [...]]]></description>
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