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Article

24 Jan 2002

Author:
U.N. Environment Programme

Pioneering Conservation And Tourism Project Wins Innovative Private Sector Backing: New funding helps kick-start International Year of Ecotourism

The goal of developing sustainable tourism in some of the world's most beautiful, yet fragile natural environments received a major boost today...Aveda [part of Estée Lauder], the global cosmetics company, has agreed to give US $500,000 to the project that is jointly managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), ...UNESCO and RARE Center for Tropical Conservation.