Date: September 6, 2017 | By: bigfive | Category: Travel Blog
As Irma churns its way toward us in Florida, we thought we would answer questions we have been asked for more than a decade by our travel advisor partners on sustainable tourism, and weaving it into, mainly, where do I start, and how do I ensure what I am offering is real? We thought this was actually the perfect opportunity to introduce you to the new Galapagos.com, a ground breaking sustainable tourism website, which will debut in the next few weeks. The site doesn’t follow convention by offering tours to the Galapagos. Rather, it is the latest example of our “What box?” mentality, embracing Darwin’s theory of evolution to offer a truly interactive site that features the Galapagos AND MORE.
Big Five’s new Galapagos.com answers those questions. It serves as a beginner’s guide of sorts that allows travelers to learn about sustainable tourism – beginning in Latin America and expanding from there.
Each country is objectively ranked between one and five frogs. Ranking is based on how well and how actively they are pursuing sustainable tourism initiatives, including:
Utilizing environmentally friendly practices
Protecting nature
Safeguarding cultural heritage
Delivering social and economic benefits to local communities
The new Galapagos.com will also feature the Gorf Blog, which will discuss the many aspects and issues related to sustainable travel. The name reflects the sometimes backwards and upside down world we live in today. See if you can figure out what Gorf really means.
Watch the space for more about Galapagos.com, and if you know what Gorf really spells, then the phrase below should be clear.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.