Developing and promoting environmentally and socially sustainable tourism in the fragile and beautiful Galapagos is a viable way to protect this treasure while enabling visitors to enjoy it.
Conservacion y Desarollo (Conservation and Development) in Ecuador is ensuring that tour boats taking tourists to the Galapagos meet a stringent set of standards for environmental and social health and safety. They now need to hire and train more auditors to verify boat operations are complying with the standards, and staff to train local tour operators in safe travel. The program benefits a myriad of workers, their families and local wildlife.
Training tour operators in sustainable procedures and verifying compliance with strict standards through monitoring and evaluation audits.
The goal of the project is to transform the tourism industry in the Galapagos from environmentally and socially hazardous to benign.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
