Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference 2008

Innocent Magole, Steven Ramalepa (Botswana Tourism Board), Mafila Malesu (BTB) and Joseph Raputsoa (Tourism Commissioner – South Africa)

HOORC BIOKAVANGO Project's Innocent Magole returned recently from the 2008 Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference held in Vancouver, Canada. Sponsored by the International Ecotourism Society (TIES), the meeting was attended by tourism practitioners, academics and public administrators. The theme of the conference was “greening the tourism industry”, looking at how many tourism companies are now integrating environmentally friendly practices, including the use of biofuels, solar and wind energy to generate power instead of fossil fuels.