[Fwd: CORALINA Project by Conservation International]

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Subject: [CAST] CORALINA Project by Conservation International
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:47:12 -0400
From: Potter at Island Resources <bpotter@irf.org>

Conservation International is one of the mega international NGOs.
http://www.conservation.org

They have a Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.
<http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/>

They also have a report and a program for Tourism in San Andres . . .
"A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER TOURISM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE
ARCHIPELAGO OF SAN ANDRES, OLD PROVIDENCE AND SANTA CATALINA" that
can be downloaded as a .PDF document, at the CELB site or from the
FILES section of the yahoogroups web site for San Andres at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/san-andres-research/files/

The report is dated March 2003.

http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/programs/travel-leisure/biodiversity_tourism.xml

>Piloting destination partnership process: We have partnered with
>Conservation International's Andes Center for Biodiversity
>Conservation, CORALINA, and the Regional Government Corporation
>established as part of the Colombian National Environment System
>(SINA) to pilot a destination partnership process in the Seaflower
>Biosphere Reserve. The destination partnership process brings
>together stakeholders to work collaboratively to encourage best
>practices and establish management mechanisms that limit the
>negative impacts of tourism, improve environmental management
>practices, help protect key areas, generate positive contributions
>for conservation from tourism activities and support the well being
>of local people. report

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Here's the Executive Summary:

SECTION I: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB) is
initiating and facilitating
multi-stakeholder dialogues in key tourism destinations that are high
biodiversity areas,
establishing a management process and action plan for the destination
to ensure the
conservation of the biodiversity and the well-being of local people.
CELB is piloting the
destination management process on the island of San Andres, Colombia.
San Andres Island,
located in the western Caribbean, is part of the Seaflower Biosphere
Reserve that includes the
entire Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina,
Colombia. CELB
will launch this project in partnership with Conservation
International's Andes Center for
Biodiversity Conservation (Andes CBC) and CORALINA, the Regional Government
Corporation established as part of the Colombian National Environment
System (SINA).
CORALINA, the organization responsible for environmental planning and
management in
the archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina, has
recognized the
importance of the island's preservation and demonstrated a strong
willingness to partner with
CELB to achieve our common goals.

San Andres was selected to pilot test the Destination Management
process because it meets
the following criteria:

o Existing high tourism activity (involving both large and small
scale inbound and
outbound tour operators, hoteliers, and potentially cruise ships);

o The archipelago has an interested local partner to lead the effort
on the ground;

o There is an identified need for a destination management effort;

o The archipelago offers opportunities for the tourism industry to
contribute to
biodiversity conservation;

o The archipelago is in a priority conservation area

Most importantly, this project brought together the key stakeholders
in the Archipelago to
map out a vision for their tourism plan that will minimize problems
associated with tourism
development and identified opportunities for tourism to support
conservation, the
protection of the region's biodiversity, and the well-being of local
people. This project also
allowed CELB and CI's Andes CBC to further refine a developed
methodology for
participatory planning to successfully replicate the process in other
key tourism destinations.

The project also helped to define and prioritize follow-up activities
for the region, of which
CI will be helping to implement the following two:

1) supporting the local tourism industry to define new tourism
products that better protect the environment while providing
resources for the local communities and

2) supporting the local hotel industry to adopt best practices with
regards to environmental stewardship.
Received on Fri Jul 30 09:46:00 2004