Subject:   Certification for Sustainable Tourism  - Costa Rica -
>         http://www.sustainable-tourism.co.cr

Very interesting indeed and very useful to have it on line.

Kiskeya Alternative Project did put on line last month something similar
to be applied in Dominican Republic and Haiti. One difference is that we
plan to use it to evaluate all kind of toursim operators, not Hotels
only, that we are now in the way of gathering several local institutions
in both countries to better and strengthen our initial tool to create a
real  sustainability certification mechanism  endorsed by all
participants in a national certification network (NGOs, Universities,
Gov., etc.) ...

you are invited  check our Tourism Sustainability Certification Program
<http://kiskeya-alternative.org/certif>

There is a program description, online references on certification and
also methodology and questionnaire this two in spanish and french only

We welcome your comments and suggestions, and even more if you wish to
participate in developing this tool...


Regards,

Yacine

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Yacine Khelladi   Research Coordinator
Kiskeya Alternative Destination Project  
http://kiskeya-alternative.org
tel: 1-809-537 89 77 (voicemail)      Fax: 1-809-221 42 19
P.O.Box 109-Z Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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