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16 / 07 / 2004
The NGO “Tourism for Peace” makes the assurance that socially responsible tourists can have experiences that “will affect them all their lives”
“Tourism for Peace”, the first NGO to base its activities on socially responsible tourism, was one of the organizations taking part today in the Speakers Corner. Its president, Antonio Rodriguez, explained that socially responsible tourism “is not sold because it responds to the social conscience of whoever decides to carry it out. In the course of the open dialogue with the public, Arantxa lvarez, the project director, pointed out that one of the objectives is to “create the necessary infrastructures so that the destinations themselves can take on the management of this type of tourism”.
To stay in the house of a neighbor of the place you are visiting, to transport humanitarian aid to its correct destination, and to collaborate in work camps, are some of the options that socially responsible tourism offers. Two years after its beginning, the NGO Tourism for Peace affirms that the tourist who undertakes a trip motivated by his social conscience can have experiences that are going to affect their whole life. The people in charge of this organization today emphasized in the Speakers Corner that socially responsible tourism contributes benefits for the place of destination and also for those who decide to practise it. “It is an experience that enriches the journey and that brings us closer to the surroundings of the people that offer their welcome to us”, said Arantxa lvarez, director of projects of Tourism for Peace.
From respect for diversity, the first NGO to base its activity on socially responsible tourism works in three directions: to facilitate the contacts that guarantee the correct delivery of humanitarian aid, to enhance the awareness of the professionals of the sector so that they contribute to expanding the projects, and to meet the objective that destinations themselves are able to manage operations so that they can re-invest the income they obtain into their own organizations.
The president of the NGO, Antonio Rodriguez, explained that this type of tourism is an aid to understanding between various cultures that is not sold because it responds to the social conscience of whoever decides to carry it out. Arantxa lvarez, the project director, emphasized that “the socially responsible tourist sees it everything in a more intense way”.
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