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Giving” highlights the dual mission of the organization: to offer tours that expose travelers todevelopment issues and empower them to become more educated donors and to fund andimplement development programs that improve access to quality education in rural Cambodia.Driven by a young group of social entrepreneurs, PEPY in the past five years has grown from aone-off bike ride that funded the construction of a rural school to working in over 10 schools andemploying over 40 local staff. PEPY Tours has won the National Geographic GeotourismChallenge Award as well as Notre Dame’s Social Venture Business Plan Competition, amongother honors. Daniela, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, has lived and worked in Asiafor the past eight years, and is currently based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.Email: d@pepyride.org.Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation, concurrently serves as the ExecutiveDirector of the St. Kitts Foundation and the Fundación Bahía de Loreto A.C. Both of thesesubsidiary foundations are the philanthropy arms of sustainable resort developments. Mark hasalso served as a consultant to Rancho La Puerta spa/resort and its foundation regarding theconservation of the Tecate River Valley, and as an advisor to Kerzner International Limited toassist its formation of the Kerzner Marine Foundation. He is the co-author of the NorthAmerican Commission for Environmental Cooperation's study on ecotourism, and conductedgreen hotel evaluations in India. Mark chairs the Council of the (U.S.) National WhaleConservation Fund, and is an active member of the marine working group, Baja Californiagroup, and coral reef group of the funders' organization, the Consultative Group on BiologicalDiversity. He has served as a member of the Environmental Grants Advisory Committee ofFINCOMUN (Tijuana’s Community Foundation). He was a professor of international law andpolicy at University of California at San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations andPacific Studies for 10 years before bringing his extensive experience with the legal and policyaspects of ocean conservation to The Ocean Foundation’s grantmaking strategy, evaluationprocess, and development of sustainability standards for coastal development.Email: mspalding@oceanfdn.orgJill Talladay is an independent consultant who advises for-profit business and non-profitorganizations in New England on the promotion of special travel and tourism projects andcommunity relations development. She helps organizations like the Massachusetts LodgingAssociation and a variety of attractions in the region establish community partnerships, raisefunds for grants and scholarships, generate consumer awareness, and increase membership.Jill’s knowledge with the travel and tourism industry runs deep, as she spent twenty five years inthe travel trade press with Spirit of Massachusetts Guidebook and as was the Corporate andNew England Sales Director for Group Tour Magazine. Beyond her paid work, Jill is acommitted volunteer and has served on numerous boards including as president of SingleVolunteers of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Hospitality Marketing Association.Email: talladayj@aol.comSandra Tassel is the President of Look at the Land, a conservation consulting firm basedoutside of Washington DC. In her consulting work, she assists local and state governments,nonprofit organizations, and advocates for natural resource protection to develop and implementconservation strategies and programs. Ecotourism is often an element of her projects,especially in Latin America where she has advised community groups, businesses, and NGO’son markets, communications, business plans, guide training and tourism product development.Tassel is the author of The Conservation Program Handbook, published by Island Press in2009.Email: sjtassel@earthlink.net224
David (Jonah) Western, Ph.D., is founder and chairman of the African Conservation Centre inNairobi. He is also the former director of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the first board chair ofThe International Ecotourism Society (TIES). A Kenya citizen, he was raised and educated inTanzania, obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Leicester University and a Ph.D. from the University ofNairobi. His research and writing has centered on the local people, parks and tourism.Email: jonahwestern@adelphia.net, dwestern@africaonline.co.keJohanna Wolff holds a M.A. in Sustainable Tourism Management from the University ofApplied Sciences Eberswalde, Germany. Born and raised in Berlin, in 2009 she conducted fieldresearch for her M.A. thesis into the travelers’ philanthropy activities of tour operators in Arusha,Tanzania. This research formed the basis for her essay contributed to the Handbook. She alsoworked as an intern with CREST in 2010. Her other work experience includes with the Goethe-Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2005 and the German National Tourist Office Sydney inAustralia in 2008.Email: johanna.wolff@hotmail.deJuan Carlos Yáñez is a certified professional tour guide and has been leading tours in theAndes for many years. Trained in his mother city of Cusco, Juan Carlos enjoys sharing his vastknowledge and love for his ancestral culture; evident from his enthusiastic smile and warmsense of humor. When not guiding, Juan Carlos spends time researching the Peruvian Andeswith his father and mentor, also a well-known tour guide. Juan Carlos' experience, dedication,and enthusiasm make him a true trailblazer. His passion for world travel is matched by hisleadership skills and his dedication to discovering and sharing the wonders, subtleties, andhidden treasures of his home country, Peru.Email: jcyanezch@hotmail.com225
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AcknowledgementsThe idea to do this
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Read What The Experts Say AboutThe
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ForewordBy Wangari Maathai, Ph.D.Fo
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Chapter 1:Core Components of Travel
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little flows directly to community-
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surprisingly little information ava
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Travelers’ Philanthropy and the G
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organization try to drive the chang
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in place, truly beneficial, success
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What is Successful Philanthropy?By
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Travelers’ philanthropy involves
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8. Institutionalize Regular Evaluat
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Chapter 2:Approaches to Travelers
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Other international companies have
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donors, and monitor projects. IGTOA
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desire to donate. Giving to these c
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Myths and Mountains and READ Global
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with a secondary school and a hub o
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International Galapagos Tours Opera
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• Do You Incorporate Tax Deductib
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Holbrook Travel and Sarapiqui Conse
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service projects, done together wit
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• How Much Has Been Raised?Most f
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Committee brings key staff from Hot
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Rock Resorts and Vail ResortsBy Jul
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National Park Foundation; Hyde Stat
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Villages of Loreto Bay and Loreto B
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we brought tourism to these communi
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strong ethical understanding, a str
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eginning. It has not been an easy r
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northern Manhattan. Our diners, our
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• How are Funds Distributed? What
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vendors, our guests, and our establ
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Educational Travel and Travelers’
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study-abroad courses in a range ofs
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and projects to support and then Gi
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Clients traveling on customized iti
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GoPhilanthropic was founded in resp
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• Are Donations Tax Deductible?We
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Case Study 1: Corporations Weaving
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Elevate DestinationsBy Dominique Ca
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Tourism has brought some benefits t
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where many local community activiti
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Chapter 3:VoluntourismVoluntourism:
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Voluntourism has emerged from this
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Box 2:Voluntourism in Meetings and
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Advice for Potential Voluntourists
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Your ISA should include personal qu
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Look for the little things that you
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Consumer Interest in VoluntourismCo
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Possibly your project(s) will cover
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your project and activities along t
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Principle 4: Follow all applicable
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Working with Donors in Travel-based
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concerns have been raised about the
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sustained local communities by targ
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where it might be more relevant to
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13. Cost effectivenessProject execu
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evaluation, and audited data. Finan
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heading with travelers’ philanthr
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Naboisho Conservancy, the private r
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Comments from a Travel Partner on C
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The Ask ─ Or is it the Offer?By S
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deciding whether to donate, but rat
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tax deductibility or other financia
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their part simply by choosing to tr
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United States. Tourists stay an ave
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“We want to help provide educatio
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Chart 6. Since when are you support
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Those surveyed also criticized volu
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Readiness Check List for Businesses
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not infringe on travelers’ holida
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the traveler is given hope, empower
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ooVolunteers who work with children
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Survey of Recipient Organizations i
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sources beyond tourism, in many cas
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confirmed that visiting the project
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Page 227 and 228: Biographies of AuthorsNot included
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