SEVERAL UK-based sustainable tourism projects have made it
through to the final stages of this year’s British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow
Awards.
The projects are; Rheged Upland Discovery Centre in Cumbria,
the Wetland’s Centre in Barnes, London, the Scottish Seabird Centre in East
Lothian and Suffolk-based tour operator Tribes Travel, which works closely with
local communities in the holiday destinations it operates.
The four projects will be judged on how they benefit and
involve local communities and how they protect the cultural, built and natural
environment. The impact of visitors must be monitored as well as energy, water
sources and the effects of waste.
Along with another 24 international projects they will go
forward in the next round of judging from which the overall Global Winner will
be chosen.
The winners will be announced on October 2