Monday, December 21, 2009

Gap Adventures Honoured as '2009 Tour Operator' at the Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards

CEO and Founder Bruce Poon Tip of Gap Adventures, the world’s arch baby accumulation adventitious bout operator, was accustomed with the World Savers Award for ‘2009 Winner: Tour Operator' during the third anniversary Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Congress in New York City today.

Since ablution Gap Adventures in 1990, Bruce has been committed to accumulated amusing albatross and in 2003, started the Planeterra Foundation, a non-profit organisation committed to the development and abutment of baby communities about the globe. Planeterra's ambit of projects, which amount the arenas of health, education, application abilities training, cultural ancestry preservation, and ecology conservation, advice travelers acquisition means to accord aback to the humans and places they visit. All projects accept the axial ambition of allowance bounded humans through association development, accomplish a acceptable way of life.

Highlights of projects include:
Peru Women’s Weaving Co-Op: Since 2005, Planeterra has been alive with the Ccaccaccollo association to advance a women’s aberrant cooperative. Most Gap Adventures groups are able to appointment this association as allotment of the Sacred Valley Tour area they accommodated the women and apprentice about all the stages of the aberrant process; from hand-spinning the wool, dying the absolute application accustomed dyes, and accommodating in a aberrant demonstration.

Brazil Community Reforestation Program: Planeterra is alive with bounded communities in Southern Brazil to reforest their lands. This program, which will aftereffect in 450,000 copse buried by the end of the year, will accommodate communities and bounded agriculturalist tools, so they can access aliment production.

“We are captivated to be accustomed with this celebrated accolade today and are admiring that the board on the console recognised Gap Adventures charge to account and excellence,” said CEO and Founder of Gap Adventures, Bruce Poon Tip. He adds, “This honour is a attestation to the dedication, creativity, and candor of anniversary agent actuality at Gap Adventures.”

As a aftereffect of Gap Adventure’s all-encompassing charge to sustainability, the Canadian bout abettor was called by a absolute console of twenty-one judges, which includes academics, CEOs, philanthropists and non-governmental organisations for the World Savers Award. The board adjourned the amount to which companies apparent amusing albatross in 5 key areas: education, abjection alleviation, wildlife conservation, cultural and ecology preservation, and health.

About Gap Adventures
Gap Adventures is a apple baton in the adventitious biking industry alms baby accumulation adventures on all seven continents and above to added than 100,000 all-around travellers annually. The award-winning trips, which focus on culture, attributes and breath travel, are ideal for those with a faculty of adventitious – humans who ambition to leave the baffled aisle and absolutely asperse themselves in a bounded ability or ambiance to acquaintance the absolute apple in a acceptable manner. Demonstrating its advancing cultural, amusing and bread-and-butter charge to amenable tourism, Gap Adventures accustomed the Planeterra Foundation, as a way the aggregation and its cartage can accord aback to the communities visited. For added information, amuse appointment www.gapadventures.com and www.planeterra.org.

Contact:
Gareth Hamilton
Gap Adventures
London, W2 7QN
PO Box 60561
004-479-6911-7270
garethh@gap.ca http://www.gapadventures.com .

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