| Award | Country or region | Description | Contact |
| AI Tourism Investment Awards
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Africa | The Africa investor Tourism Investor Awards were created to showcase Africa’s opportunities and achievements in the tourism sector to the rest of the world, collectively raise awareness about Africa as a tourism destination and reward those groups developing the African tourism industry as a vehicle to drive sustainable economic growth. | See website for more information |
| Be Fair Award
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Developing countries | This newly created award developed by the Trade for Development Centre wishes to emphasise and promote the development of local and regional marketing of fair trade products (or fair trade services, like tourism) in developing countries. | See website for more information |
| Greening the Future Awards
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South Africa | The Mail and Guardian’s annual awards honour the achievements of companies and organisations that work hard, often going unrecognised, to ensure a better environmental future for our children and the planet (see M&G article). | See M&G article |
| Hospitality Investment Conference Africa Awards
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Southern Africa | The awards recognize and reward companies and individuals who have made an extraordinary contribution to enhancing the profile of the hospitality industry in Southern Africa through promoting growth, investment, innovation and excellence, across all tourism sectors. | See website for more information |
| Imvelo Awards
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South Africa | The South African Imvelo Awards have had a huge impact on tourism in South Africa, creating significant awareness of environmental management issues in the industry. | See website for more information |
| Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability
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Worldwide | The Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability annually contributes US$1 million to not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations. It is designed to recognize the critical role of the not-for-profit sector in promoting and implementing sustainable development around the world. | See website for more information |
| Skål Ecotourism Awards
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Worldwide | The international travel and tourism association, Skål, presents Ecotourism awards each year. These awards are granted based on innovative objectives to preserve nature, encourage and sustain cultural heritage tourism, insure community involvement, benefits and business viability and include educational features. | See website for more information |
| South African NGO Web Awards
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South Africa | The South African NGO Web Awards aims to raise awareness about the benefits of having a web presence among South African NGOs, stimulate interest in the application of web solutions and applications, and showcase best practices and innovation in website use. | See website for more information |
| South Luangwa Environmental Awards, Zambia
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Zambia | This is an awards programme which aims to promote responsible tourism practices in Zambia through environmentally sustainable and “eco-friendly” practices. | See website for more information |
| To Do!
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Worldwide | This award looks for projects and measures which demonstrate sustainable and future-orientated courses of action in tourism. | See website for more information |
| Tourism for Tomorrow
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Worldwide | The Tourism for Tomorrow Awards are aimed at recognising best practice in sustainable tourism within the Travel & Tourism industry worldwide. The awards are under WTTC’s stewardship and so provide the Council with the opportunity of promoting and partnering with the industry leaders in responsible tourism, highlighting the prime examples of best practice. | See website for more information |
| Willy Sharnow Awards
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Worldwide | This award for innovative and sustained projects and for outstanding training programmes is presented to two companies in the tourism industry by the William Scharnow Foundation.
Once a year the Willy Scharnow Award is announced to companies in the travel trade for innovative and sustained projects and outstanding training programme for travel trade staff. To motivate individual enterprises among travel agencies and hotels to apply for the award, the prize has been split up into 4 categories in 2007. This classification in categories will be retained in this year too. The presentation ceremony annually takes place on the occasion of the ITB in Berlin. |
See website for more information |
| Zambia Tourism Awards
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Zambia | The Zambia Tourism Award is open to all Zambia based tourism operators. It aims to promote and reward excellence in tourism operations and to contribute to the development of the tourism industry in Zambia. | See website for more information |
Awards
- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards 2010 – Winner
- NAMIBIA has been shortlisted for the World Travel Tourism Council (WTTC) awards in the community benefits category together with India and New Zealand.
- World Bank Gets Into Eco Tourism With Elephant-Friendly Mozambique Hotel
- Massive US funder selects eligible countries approves $ 350m for Malawi
- PATA to be Partner in 5th IIPT African Conference
- A&K Sanctuary Olonana in the Masai wins Eco Warrior Environmental Award
- Cape Town tourism takes Big Issue vendors to the top
- Tourism can help meet Biodiversity Targets, UNWTO says
- Tourism rises by over 300 percent in Angola
- SOUTH AFRICA – NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD IN FAIR TRADE TOURISM
