Coolearth.org: Arresting Climate Change on a Global Scale
  Conservation International: A non profit conservation organizations which works with biodiversity issues and hosts initiatives such as CELB (Centre for Environmental Leadership in Business)

  Mekong Delta Reserve Rooms Online...: Booking a hotel in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region is set to become easier with the launch of three new websites
  Times Asia Article: Small World: The Internet, it was once supposed, would provide a level playing field for businesses big and small, giving each the opportunity to reach a global market. But we know that isn't always the case. Driving large volumes of traffic to a website has become a complex marketing challenge requiring lots of time and money. Seeking to redress the balance—at least as far as the travel industry is concerned—is worldhotel-link.com.
  Small World: A new travel website gives locally-owned, environmentally-conscious accomodations equal footing on the Web
  IFC to pilot WHL in Sri Lanka: Lanka Business Online - International Finance Corp is to pilot an online accommodation booking portal in Sri Lanka, so small and medium hotels can access global markets.
  Mom and Pop Hotels In Emerging Markets Tap into Online Marketing: Blog document from Social ROI
  Lawrence Carter, IFC director, on WHL: A big opportunity for small hoteliers
  Stay an Extra Day Campaign: There is a feature on the "Stay an Extra Day" campaign ...part of MPDF's sustainable tourism project, plus a number of WHL documents you can download.

  IFC Outcomes Document: Addressing the challenges posed by Independent Travel to local packaged-tour operators
  Vanauatu E-Info Newsletter: Every month, our WHL parnter in Vanauatu publishes a substantive newsletter for their member accommodations. This issue has useful pricing and marketing segment.
  New WHL in Aceh, Indonesia: Press Release for the IFC on Banda Aceh Indonesia new WHL MPO
  CSR Asia: CSR in the Travel Tourism and Hospitality Business

  Tiny African island nation seeks a foothold in ecotourism: Flying into the tiny island of Principe off Africa's west coast brings a sense of traveling back in time.
  TO REMAKE THE WORLD SOMETHING IS AFOOT AMONG CIVIL SOCIETY: have given nearly one thousand talks about the environment in the past fifteen years, and after every speech a smaller crowd gathered to talk, ask questions, and exchange business cards. The people offering their cards were working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more....
  Business Enterprise for Sustainable Travel (BEST): BEST encourages sustainable practices travel companies. This site showcases best practices and is hosted by the International Tourism Partnership (ITP)

  Making Tourism More Sustainable, Part 2: Case Studies (see "Tourism as Sustainable Development") for Part 1 of this guide.
  Pro-Poor Tourism: Annual Register 2005: The Annual Register is a new publication of the Pro-Poor Tourism (PPT) Partnership. It is intended to highlight new developments in the field of tourism and poverty reduction and to share information about these developments.
  Kenya Government Document on Sustainable Tourism Best Practice: Porini Ecotourism Project\": Best Practice onSustainable Tourism in Support of the Ministerial Consultations of the NinthSpecial Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment

  Peak Oil: Several articles from World Watch report on the Peak Oil Forum.

  Online bookings will surpass offline for first time: Next year for the first time, internet transactions will account for over half of all US travel bookings, according to a new report from PhoCusWright.
  Search-engine’s long-tail effect is opening doors to new entrants: Last year, when EyeforTravel.com has interviewed Jan Oetjen (then managing director - Germany, Travelocity), he had mentioned three trends having a significant influence: ongoing channel shift, with a new focus on segmentation, increased focus on safety and traveler information, and consolidation.
  Travel companies ‘driving away customers’ due to poor online user experience:
  Online travel searching ‘becoming more difficult’: Many travel searchers on the internet have to employ longer and more detailed searches in order to find exactly what they want via search engines, according to research.
  UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2005: "E-tourism" can help developing countries keep tourism profits at home, UNCTAD report says
  Lonely Planet’s Carolyn Sutton: The best-known publisher of guidebooks for independent travelers extends its forays into a digital, politically volatile, increasingly mobile world.

  How to maintain success in online travel space: Healthy growth continues to drive the market - but shifting competitive dynamics and consumer profile signal major challenges ahead...
  UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2005 - pdf:
  Use of Online Travel: Searching, researching, planning and buying, an eMarketer senior analyst looks at the behavioral patterns of online travelers.
  Over 50s Online Travel Boom: Well over three quarters of internet users aged over 50 have visited a travel site in the last year, new research reveals
  Googlization of Travel: Reprise Media execs describe the impact of Google -- and search as a category -- on the travel industry.
  Changing Face of Travel: Where to for the traditional travel agent in this ever changing world?

  Sustainable Travel International: Promoting responsible tourism, supporting sustainable development, and helping travelers and travel providers protect the cultures and environments they visit.
  Tourists Can Be a Force for Preservation: Series of Newsweek articles about how tourists can be the driving force in sustainable tourism.

  Traveller Guide to Sustainable Tourism: Guide created by the worldhotel-link.com team to help the traveller understand the need for feedback and how to help with sustainable tourism initiatives.

  Tourism Certification as a Sustainability Tool: Assessments and Prospects: A report by the UNEP
  Responsible Tourism and the Market: Occasional paper No. 4 by Harold Goodwin, International Centre for Responsible Tourism - What role does certification play in Responsible Tourism?
  CSR in the Tourism Industry? The Status of and Potential for Certification, Codes of Conduct and Guidelines: A study prepared for the CSR Practice Foreign Investment Advisory, Service Investment Climate Department by Rachel Dodds & Marion Joppe

  Sustainabletourism.net: A website which offers information, case studies and services in sustainable/responsible tourism.
  Ecotourism May Be Travel Field’s Wave of the Future: Ecotourism travel operations that bring people to exotic lands while helping to conserve those lands and improve the well-being of local residents now makes up a $77 billion market in the United States alone.

  BioScience Article: Madagascar Defiant: Conservationists have long proclaimed the economic value of biodiversity and the services itprovides. The point may be proved in Madagascar, where a determined president and aninternational conservation coalition are struggling to transform a country noted for its pastenvironmental mismanagement into a new role model for green development.
  Digital Traveler - Asia Pacific: Digital Traveler ~ Asia Pacific newsletter is part of TIES’ initiatives to help build a stronger communication networkamong individuals and organizations involved with and interested in ecotourism and sustainable tourism in the AsiaPacific region. This free bimonthly e-newsletter is designed to increase communications and networking, and helpstimulate critical discussions and debates between TIES and our members, partners and friends in the region. Backissues of the Digital Traveler ~ Asia Pacific are available at www.ecotourism.org along with other TIES newsletters.
  Making Tourism More Sustainable: A Guide for Policy Makers: Part I of a guide by the UNEP views the effects of tourism, both positive and negative. In this context, the Guide examines ways in which principally governments but also other stakeholders can develop strategies, policies and tools to maximize the industry’s positive effects while minimizing the negative impacts. Case studies (Part II of this guide) are under "Best Practices".

  Carbon Offsets go Mainstream: What Happens When I Click on “Fly Greenâ€? at Expedia.com or “Be a Hero, Go Zeroâ€? at Travelocity.com? Dr. Mark C. Trexler
  Carbon Offsets go Mainstream: What Happens When I Click on “Fly Greenâ€? at Expedia.com or “Be a Hero, Go Zeroâ€? at Travelocity.com? Dr. Mark C. Trexler
  Survey reveals attitudes to ethical tourism: More than one in four adults in the UK are prepared to pay more for an 'ethical holiday', according to new research by TNS Travel & Tourism, a global market information provider.
  National Geographic\'s Centre for Sustainable Destinations: Working to protect all the world's distinctive places through wisely managed tourism and enlightened destination stewardship. Resources and links for travellers, tourism professionals and communities.
  Boom in green holidays as ethical travel takes off: Gas-guzzling industry is belatedly catching up with growing market
  Gently does it: You do not have to be a card-carrying hippy to be an eco-friendly traveller. Simon Mills of The Guardian reports on the new wave of "light green" holidays.

  World Tourism Barometer: World Tourism Organization October 2005 Tourism Barometer
  Long Haul Tourism Market: EU Market Survey on the Long Haul Tourism Market for Season 2005

  Conservation International: A non profit conservation organizations which works with biodiversity issues and hosts initiatives such as CELB (Centre for Environmental Leadership in Business)