Goals and Objectives

The Ecotourism Program, in collaboration with other key Conservancy staff, has set a series of goals as part of a strategy to ensure ecotourism development contributes to the success of our mission.

Our overall goals are to:

Reduce the threats posed by uncontrolled tourism development at the fragile sites we seek to conserve
Develop a source of long-term financial sustainability for the conservation of protected area sites.

Within these broad objectives, we have a series of goals and objectives over the next three years, including:

The development of a methodology for monitoring tourism's impacts - an essential first step if we are to control those impacts.
Training for partners in developing joint ecotourism strategies with local communities, including community-based ecotourism enterprises.
Promote guidelines for facilitating greater community participation in the planning and management of ecotourism.
Build our partners' capacity to provide income-generating services to tourism businesses, including developing joint ecotourism development strategies and business ventures with inbound tour operators.
Assist our non-governmental organization (NGO) partners to influence ecotourism policy at the national level.
Assist our international NGO partners to identify their optimum strategy in ecotourism development.
Develop guidelines for partners on ecotourism planning, feasibility evaluation and where appropriate, business planning.
Facilitate the development of model ecotourism programs and itineraries which generate benefits for site conservation, partners and local communities.
Work with like-minded institutions to develop an ecotourism standards monitoring program.
Create new partnerships with the tourism industry to promote ecotourism development at the appropriate sites where we work.

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