These are the participants of the workshop:
Ainhoa Aldalur, Spain – Tour guide in alternative trips
Carlos Buj, Spain – My name is Carlos. I am creating my own organisation on Responsible Tourism in Spain while I carry out some related freelance jobs. I am particularly interested in RT education and training.
Catalin Hrisca, Romania – The relationship between tourism and environment has been a particular field of interest for me since 1998 when I started research on this topic in Romania. After I completed my PhD in geography in France, I have worked for the national administration in my country, dealing with regional cooperation, including tourism. My traineeship at the European Commission was focused on the Baltic Sea Strategy.
Christoph Amthor, Czeck Republic – Project Manager and Co-Founder of the Czech non-profit NGO Burma Center Prague
Emily Höckert, Finland - Doctoral student, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. Representative of a research project Policies and Practices of the Tourism Industry – A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study on Central America (POLITOUR).
Frans de Man, Netherlands – Sustainable Tourism has been my field of work from as early as 1984, when I was the first coordinator of the Dutch foundation Tourism & Third World which was one of the founding members of TEN (First European Network for sustainable tourism).
From there I founded the Retour foundation (1986), and have been working for this foundation until now. Five years ago Retour helped me taking over a small scale entreprise in a tourism area: Big Fish in Tarifa. I have been turning this shop into a best practise of responsible small scale entrepreneurship. (http://www.retour.net/)
Fatma Kalkan, Turkey - I am Fatma, I live in Turkey. I wanted to participate in this workshop because there is a close relationship between the workshop topic and my job and my career.
Floris Smitskamp, Netherlands – I’m one of the co-founders of StoryTravelers, a company which uses stories to promote responsible/slow travel (http://www.storytravelers.com/)
Giuseppe Mangarano, Italy – I started working as tourist operator in 1999 (Messina, Taormina, Egypt). In 2007 I founded Kastalia Organization ( www.kastalia.it) a local organization involved in responsible travel in my province and abroad. Now I work as Web Master (specializing in web marketing applied to tourism) and IT for tourism with an Italian enterprise leader in Europe.
Klaus Betz, Germany - Managing Director of german based Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung e.V. (Institute for Tourism and Development) (www.studienkreis.org)
Koen van Seijen, Netherlands – I’m the co-founder of StoryTravelers, a company which uses stories to promote responsible/slow travel (http://www.storytravelers.com/)
Laura Greenman, UK – Managing Director, Magnetic North Travel (www.magneticnorthtravel.com)
Maria Filocamo, Italy – I work with a local no profit organization that provides services to volunteer organizations. Social worker as background, I worked as a tutor of a social tourism project in Vulcano (Eolian Island). I volunteer with an Italian clown therapy organization (www.clownterapia.it) and I made some activities also in Senegal and Romania.
Marta Satler, Slovenia - I have traveled last 15 years mostly round less developed countries of Africa, Asia and South America. There I can see how much damage tourism causes to environment, because countries aren’t prepared yet. I think everyone can do something against it with giving a good example.
Nadia Sorokina, UK – PhD student researching sustainable tourism marketing
Ruusa Tanhuanpää, Finland - Lecturer in Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
Susana Conde, Spain - Entrepreneur, Director of an Responsible Tourism Agency of the Basque Country
Suvi Tauriainen, Finland – Project manager, Idän Taiga ry www.wildtaiga.com