Our plans include seeking partners who would like to conduct
global and local reviews. Online we will celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the pioneering IYE2002
Forum.
BACKGROUND
The United Nations declared 2002 the "International Year of
Ecotourism." The declaration came as a result of the United
Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)-related
meeting of the Ad-Hoc (Inter-Agency) Working Group on Tourism,
convened at Heredia, Costa Rica in 1999 in which the World
Tourism Organization (WTO) and the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) were mandated to work
together toward a World
Ecotourism Summit, which took place in Quebec, Canada in
May, 2002.
PLANETA.COM
Having chronicled the development of ecotourism since 1994,
in early 2001 Planeta launched
the IYE2002
Forum to focus on the
International Year of Ecotourism (IYE). Planeta.com created
an online guide
and conducted the 2002
Ecotourism Forum to promote a dialogue among interested
parties. In April 2002 at the request of UNEP and WTO, Planeta
website founder Ron
Mader developed the Sustainable
Development of Ecotourism Web Conference.
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