Planeterra, an international non-profit organization based in Toronto, Canada is accelerating its capacity to support a growing number of sustainable development projects worldwide, in places where Gap Adventures and its travel industry partners operate adventure and cultural tours. Read More ›
Three experts from Planeterra Foundation, the global sustainable tourism development organization, will be speaking at international symposia in June and July. Planeterra is a not-for-profit organization that helps empower local people to develop their communities, conserve cultures and create a humane and supportive system for their endeavors. Read More ›
Megan Epler Wood, Director of Planeterra, the global non-profit sustainable development organization, will address a gathering of Belize’s Consular Representatives at 11 a.m. on May 25 Cercle de Lorraine in Brussels. Read More ›
By raising awareness for its Community Reforestation Project and funds to plant thousands of new trees, Planeterra hopes to help stabilize the remaining 7% of rainforests, which just a few hundred years ago spanned hundreds of miles north-to-south along Brazil’s Atlantic shore, reaching west to the Amazon jungle. Read More ›
The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) and Planeterra, a leading non-profit foundation dedicated to sustainable community development and environmental conservation through travel, are collaborating to develop a set of criteria that will help international voluntourism providers plan and manage their programs in a responsible and sustainable manner. Read More ›
Megan Epler Wood, the founder of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), and Director of the Planeterra Foundation will teach, Global Sustainable Ecotourism Development, at the University of Vermont, May 23-27, 2011. Read More ›
Cornell’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Gap Adventures, and Planeterra have partnered to assess the underlying costs and benefits of sustainable tourism for the country of Belize. Read More ›
Planeterra, the non-profit dedicated to sustainable community development through travel, suggests ways travelers can contribute to long lasting solutions in local communities worldwide. Read More ›
Gap Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip announced today the appointment of ecotourism industry veteran Megan Epler Wood as Director of Planeterra, the global non-profit dedicated to sustainable community development through travel and voluntourism. Epler Wood will share duties with newly named Associate Director Paula Vlamings. Read More ›
STA Travel is committing $1 million over five years to a responsible tourism program led by Planeterra which will develop mutually beneficial volunteer travel and community projects targeted to STA Travel’s over 6 million passengers who travel annually to 90 countries. Read More ›
