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Now Posted: Reports for Impacts of Tourism Related Development along Costa Rica's Pacific Coast! Click here to be redirected to the page.

The Market for Responsible Tourism Products with a special focus on Latin America and Nepal now posted! Click here to download the report.

Spring internship announced for CREST. Click here to learn more.

First Coastal Tourism Innovators Symposium Receives Praise from Participants. Click here to read the press release.

Haiti: All Hands on Deck, Not Business as Usual. Click here to read CREST's latest press release.

Sylvia Earle and other notable speakers to present at Innovators Symposium January 20-22, 2010.
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Click the image above to read about this multi-dimensional study, carried out over two years by researchers in Costa Rica and the U.S., which has assessed the growth, trends, and impacts of tourism and tourism-related development along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.

Our Mission

The Center for Responsible Travel (formerly Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, CESD) is a non-profit research institution whose mission is to design, monitor, evaluate, and improve ecotourism and sustainable tourism practices and principles. Its policy-oriented research focuses on ecotourism as a tool for poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation, as well as socially and environmentally responsible tourism practices



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