WTTC Announces Winners of
Tourism for Tomorrow Awards

The Tourism for Tomorrow Awards was presented at the annual Global Travel & Tourism Summit, held in Florianopolis, capital of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The 2009 winners are Grupo PUNTACANA, Dominican Republic - Destination Stewardship Award, NatureAir, Costa Rica - Conservation Award, Zakoura Foundation for Micro-Credits, Morocco for Community Benefit Award and Marriott International Inc, USA and Global won the Global Tourism Business Award. The award instituted by World Travel & Tourism Council for the past five years, recognise and promote best practice in sustainable tourism development all over the world.
This year's Tourism for Tomorrow Award winners represent a more diverse group of businesses, organisations and destinations that are helping to take sustainable tourism to new levels of innovation," Costas Christ, Chairman of the Judging Panel, told the assembled delegates at the Summit.
"For the first time, we have the airline sector represented, as well as micro-lending financial credit organisation, one of the world's largest hotel groups, and a major Caribbean tourism destination," Christ added. "We are now seeing sustainable tourism principles and practices represented across much more diverse sectors of the global Travel & Tourism industry."