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Tourism-Climate Change Resources from the Caribbean Tourism Organization

Environment, Management
2017
This CTO portal features the Quarterly Tourism Climatic Bulletin, as well as regional outlooks and technical reports from the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology. The Caribbean Tourism Climatic Bulletin seeks to provide a broad overview of climate conditions and communicate tourism implications up to 3 to 6 months in advance, for use by the regional tourism (public and private sector) stakeholders.

Adventure Travel Education

Management
The Adventure Travel Trade Association now helps travel businesses access business training resources through online courses led by subject matter experts. With training experience in dozens of countries, individuals and companies can access high level training for different areas of business including:
- Adventure Travel Guide Training
- Safety & Risk Management
- Adventure Travel Business Management
- Transformation Design Principals in Travel Experiences
- Developing Self-Guided Tours
- Sales Funnels & High-Converting Websites
- Protecting Animals & Nature in Adventure Travel
- Video Storytelling to Inspire Adventure Travelers

Adventure Travel Guide Training

Management

Being an Adventure Travel Guide is a fantastic job and a great challenge. Guides are considered the front line of the tourism industry, playing an important role interacting with guests, while educating them, keeping them safe, ensuring they have a good time and imparting on them the values of responsible tourism. As an Adventure Travel Guide, you will be an athlete, a diplomat, a teacher, a storyteller, a doctor, an environmentalist, an entertainer, all at the same time. These courses adhere to the International Adventure Travel Guide Qualification and Performance Standard.
The Adventure Guide Training bundle includes a track of 6 different courses. You can choose one or take them all.

International Adventure Travel Guide Qualification and Performance Standard

2021

Adventure travel guides are central to the delivery of professional, responsible and memorable adventure travel experiences. The rapid growth in adventure travel in recent decades has led to an increase in demand for professional adventure travel guides and highlighted the need for an accessible, clear and universal adventure travel guide standard.
Adventure guides manage safety and risks and ensure the overall quality of participant’s experience while safeguarding both adventure travel company and destination reputations. Moreover, adventure travel guides have a critical role to play in delivering and educating about sustainability with focus on the climate emergency, biodiversity preservation, social impacts of global tourism and biosecurity issues.
In an effort to bring together one integrated Adventure Travel Guide Standard (ATGS), in 2015 the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) convened a working group of adventure travel professionals from 16 countries, including guides, business owners, and tour operators. The 1^st Edition was published in February 2016.

ADVENTURE TRAVEL SUPPLY CHAIN: COMPLEXITIES, CHALLENGES & PREFERENCES

Management
2023
Given the global environment of the tourism industry, it is ever more important for companies to collaborate within their supply chain and to find partners with similar values. This report takes a deeper look at the adventure travel supply chain components, defines different types of adventure suppliers (also known as service providers), and investigates their preferences and challenges that they are currently facing.
The goal of this report is to help adventure travel companies better understand the ecosystem in which they work. While the report focuses on suppliers, the connection between buyers and suppliers is also examined to acknowledge their differing preferences. Based on the findings, recommendations are made to help the industry move forward to ensure traveler expectations are met.
Key Findings
All companies that have an effect on the pre-trip, en-route, and destination on-site travel experience are part of the tourism supply chain.
Suppliers (and buyers) are struggling to find technology to manage their business. Many are turning to costly and time-consuming custom-built solutions for taking bookings and payments.
Suppliers prefer to work with outbound tour operators and other individual suppliers, although DMCs can also be valuable and important partners at times.
Indirect marketing through travel advisors, tour operators, and OTAs is the most popular way that suppliers reach travelers, followed by digital ads and direct email marketing.
Suppliers most often sell their products to travelers through tour operators or through travel advisors/agents, but selling direct is also popular. Third-party online travel agencies (OTAs) are the least common way to sell.
While buyers and suppliers are primarily looking for each other in the same places, suppliers slightly prefer conferences/trade shows, and buyers tend to look for referrals from other industry professionals. Both commonly seek each other through trade associations, such as ATTA.
Although associations are valuable ways to meet new potential partners, building relationships and trust are more important for both buyers and suppliers when choosing others to work with. Budget/price ranks about halfway down the list for both.

CREATING SUSTAINABLE EXPERIENCES IN ADVENTURE TRAVEL - Research Report

Environment, Management, Social & Cultural, Economy
2023
Tourists, tour operators, accommodations, and venues, have been rethinking and reformulating the travel experience in terms of sustainability.
Organizations are aiming to maintain success from a financial perspective and increasingly also from social and ecological points of view. Members of the adventure travel community are responding to travelers’ desires by marketing experiences that are sustainable and regenerative in addition to being exciting, fun, educational, and immersive.
To learn more about what the adventure travel industry is doing to make their experiences more sustainable, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and Switzerland Tourism (ST) partnered together to research more about how the community encourages traveling with greater consciousness, awareness, and appreciation.
This report focuses on cultivating the environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainability in adventure travel experiences. While organizations have been increasing sustainability practices for years, achieving the ever-increasing standards takes concerted intention and effort. The movement is expected to augment in future years and international and national travel organizations will be looking for sustainability guidelines to follow.

Exchanged Actors Behind the Creation of Sense of Place Value in Indigenous Tourism Enterprise Karangrejo Borobudur Indonesia

Economy
2022
According to the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, there are 7,275 indigenous tourism enterprises in Indonesia. However, only 0.5% of these are certified as a sustainable tourism village. One of them is the Karangrejo village in Borobudur, Indonesia. This village is able to sustain their enterprise, which is a unique and rare context. This study aims to address this gap by examining the sense of place value created from the collaboration between actors, mapping the actors and their resources who have crucial roles in indigenous tourism enterprise, and examining the relations between actors, mapping the characteristics and efforts made by the indigenous tourism enterprise.

Indigenous Business Navigator

Economy
The navigator can help connect you with programs and services across different Government of Canada departments and agencies. Whether you are looking to access capital, or looking for help with community economic development planning, the navigator will help you find the information and support that best fits your needs.

Indigenous people are Earth's greatest champions. Listen to us - and watch biodiversity thrive

Management
2023
This article looks into the role of Indigenous peoples in land management and biodiversity preservation with a focus on the Benguet region in the northern Philippines and the greater Philippines.

Interface of Tourism, Basket weaving and Indigenous Knowledge in the Okavango Delta Panhandle of Botswana

Social & Cultural
2022
The study examined how tourism development revitalised the indigenous knowledge of weaving baskets in the Okavango Delta.