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Category : South America
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Indigenous Leader Murdered
3. March 2016Honduras: Indigenous Leader Murdered Despite Police Protection Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, or COPIHN, was killed by unknown assailants early Thursday morning at 1:00 a.m. local
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Planeterra – IDB
20. February 2016Since 2012, G Adventures and Planeterra have partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Multilateral Investment Fund to help create lasting positive social change throughout Central and South America and to make the world a
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Adventure Operators Engaging in Disaster Recovery Efforts
Adventure Asia Best Practices Culture Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Empowerment Rebuilding South America Volunteering19. February 2016G Adventures and the Evolution of Adventure Tourism In 1990, Bruce Poon Tip founded G Adventures “to bridge the gap between mainstream tourism and the backpacker” (Poon Tip, 2013, p.47). They’ve since received many awards for their innovative
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Adventures With a Purpose
17. February 2016In the 2014 UNWTO Global Report on Adventure Tourism, ATTA president Shannon Stowell identifies the top four trends in adventure tourism: The softening of adventure travel, customization of trip experiences, multi-generational groups, and
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Empowering Women Through Adventure Tourism
14. February 2016Scheyvens (2002, p.138) analyzed tourism from a gender perspective: “The key theme running through accounts of women’s involvement in tourism in the Third World is that they have been used and often abused by the tourism industry for its own