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Ecotourism conference in Vancouver, BC

International sustainability event at Vancouver’s green-minded Fairmont Hotel this October.

by CTC News Staff 26 August 2008

Green-travel entrepreneurs, academics and policymakers will descend on Vancouver, BC this fall for a major international conference dedicated to ecotourism: the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference 2008 (ESTC 2008.) It’s the first time Canada has hosted the conference. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), a US, Washington DC-based nonprofit that has members in more than 90 countries, puts on the event each year.

The conference is Oct. 27 to 29 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver—a green property in its own right, and one committed to energy efficiency.

With three days of speakers and networking sessions, organizers aim to stimulate ideas and action among representatives of academia, industry and government. Sessions include “Trends Affecting the Awaking Consumer and Ecotourism,” by Hank Stewart of the New York, NY (US)-based advertising agency Green Team, and “People, Profit, Planet; Rethinking Sustainability from the Ground Up,” by Kimberly Slicklein of Enclave Rising, an international real estate firm committed to developing zero-carbon properties.

www.ecotourismconference.org
www.fairmont.com/hotelvancouver
www.enclaverising.com
www.greenteamusa.com

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