Dear Friends,
I work for Tourism Concern, a charity in the UK that campaigns for ethical and fair trade in tourism and I wondered whether you could help me. I am putting together research in order to produce Dominican Republic-specific travellers tips for visitors to these countries. They will aim to cover the most important positive, practical advice involving the environmental, cultural and economic impact of tourists within the Dominican Republic.
Examples of this are:
Environmental: keeping water use to a minimum, not buying natural souvenirs, keeping waste to a minimum, using local resources as conservatively as possible.
Cultural: keeping to local dress codes and being sensitive to local customs, asking permission before taking photographs, learning a few phrases of the local language
Economic: buy locally made and grown goods and use local services, paying a fair price for goods, being aware of local attitudes to begging.
These tips will be compiled by receiving feedback from people/organisations involved in some way in oturism in hte Dominican Republic. I was hoping that you may be able to give us some feedback and/or forward me email addresses of contacts who you think may be able to give us some advice.
The feedback we are trying to get is centred around:
? Information and facts on the types of tourism and general points which you feel would be most useful/relevant in creating a code that tourists follow.
? Possible ways tourists can reduce/alter their impact and reasons why.
If you need any more information then please let me know.
My email address is: kelly@tourismconcern.org.uk
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Kelly Haynes
I work for Tourism Concern, a charity in the UK that campaigns for ethical and fair trade in tourism and I wondered whether you could help me. I am putting together research in order to produce Dominican Republic-specific travellers tips for visitors to these countries. They will aim to cover the most important positive, practical advice involving the environmental, cultural and economic impact of tourists within the Dominican Republic.
Examples of this are:
Environmental: keeping water use to a minimum, not buying natural souvenirs, keeping waste to a minimum, using local resources as conservatively as possible.
Cultural: keeping to local dress codes and being sensitive to local customs, asking permission before taking photographs, learning a few phrases of the local language
Economic: buy locally made and grown goods and use local services, paying a fair price for goods, being aware of local attitudes to begging.
These tips will be compiled by receiving feedback from people/organisations involved in some way in oturism in hte Dominican Republic. I was hoping that you may be able to give us some feedback and/or forward me email addresses of contacts who you think may be able to give us some advice.
The feedback we are trying to get is centred around:
? Information and facts on the types of tourism and general points which you feel would be most useful/relevant in creating a code that tourists follow.
? Possible ways tourists can reduce/alter their impact and reasons why.
If you need any more information then please let me know.
My email address is: kelly@tourismconcern.org.uk
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Kelly Haynes