The Accountable Tourism Partnership has introduced that Natural world ACT has won first position within the ‘Perfect for Nature-Certain Tourism’ class on the prestigious WTM International Accountable Tourism Awards for 2023.
After securing the Gold award on the WTM Africa Accountable Tourism Awards previous this 12 months, Natural world ACT was once therefore nominated along different regional winners for the worldwide championship.
Those awards play a pivotal position in selling and endorsing accountable and sustainable tourism practices throughout the shuttle trade.
“The WTM International Accountable Tourism Awards now not most effective show off the most efficient of the most efficient in accountable tourism, however units the compass for our international trade in developing sustainable shuttle and vacation studies,” says Megan De Jager, Portfolio Director – Commute, Tourism & RX Africa Advertising and marketing.
Via our voluntourism style, Natural world ACT has been ready to supply steady, skilled tracking services and products to over ten safe spaces in Zululand for 15 years. We additionally give a contribution to endangered species control throughout Africa, in addition to the recovery of North Island in Seychelles.
This international award for Perfect Nature-Certain Tourism underscores the significance of Natural world ACT’s voluntourism and neighborhood conservation fashions, which counterpoint the very important conservation paintings performed via our staff.
Additionally recognised via the judges all the way through the decision-making procedure was once Natural world ACT’s Neighborhood Conservation Programme (CCP). We’re abundantly conscious that many people residing close to South Africa’s safe spaces and nationwide parks have restricted get right of entry to to those herbal areas. To ensure that conservation efforts to be efficient and sustainable, those gaps should be bridged. Our CCP seeks to advertise participation in and fortify folks’s figuring out of the conservation sector, underscoring the worth of nature and highlighting financial alternatives throughout the box.
“I’m extraordinarily happy with our devoted staff of Natural world ACT conservationists who’re so dedicated to our endangered and precedence species of natural world. This award is a mirrored image in their interest and determination. I additionally wish to thank the fantastic volunteers who’ve joined our initiatives to make a significant and quantifiable contribution to our initiatives. With out your hands-on involvement, Natural world ACT merely should not have been ready to reach what now we have the similar degree of affect over the past 15 years.”
– Johan Maree – Natural world ACT Co-Founder and Director.
This outstanding reputation is a notable fulfillment now not just for Natural world ACT and our companions but additionally for South Africa and all the continent. Africa continues to make its mark as a most popular vacation spot for accountable vacationers.