Tourism, travel, leisure and sports
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Brio Leisure
Brio Leisurs is a local council organisation in the UK that runs 17 Leisure centres providing facilities for fitness training and sport.
Partners create 'fair-trade tourism' packages in South Africa
South African Tourism is teaming with independent, nonprofit NGO Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa to develop fair-trade tourism packages with outbound tour operators in leading source markets and step up a decade-old effort to promote the country as one of the world’s leading fair-trade tourism...
Al Swayni Sport Services & Events Organisation
Al Swayni Sport Services and Events Organisation is a for-profit sport services and events organization the licensed by government of the Sultanate of Oman. The organisation aims to develop, educate and raise the level of sport in Oman. The organisation holds the licenc for AGBA (Arabian Gulf...
Simunye
Simunye is a Canadian NGO that provides life changing opportunities to young people with a talent for soccer living in poverty in Zimbabwe. The young people selected for the programme must also have academic ambitions. Simunye aims to provide financial assistance and scholarships for these young...
Hope Development Volunteers
Hope Development Volunteers is an organisation dedicated to supporting development, through linking volunteers and charitable organisations around the world. The organisation offers volunteering projects to international volunteers wanting to volunteer in Africa and work with disadvantaged...
Fútbol Project (TFP)
Fútbol Project (TFP) aims to empower underprivileged and orphaned children and young adults through sports; and to build relationships between children and youths in the global north and those in the global south. TFP donates sports equipment to organisations that work with youth with an...
Fabretto Children's Foundation
Fabretto Children's Foundation mission is to enable impoverished Nicaraguan children and their families in underserved communities to break the cycle of poverty and reach their full potential through programs promoting education, nutrition and health, and community development.
Gulf For Good
Gulf for Good is a charity which organizes exciting adventure challenges around the world inspiring people to do something unusual. Participants raise funds, which are then donated to handpicked charities in the region where the challenge is held. Gulf for Good has four main goals: - to bring...
UN, Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP)
National Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) provide the guiding framework for low-income countries in their efforts to attain the MDGs. A number of countries have integrated sport into their PRSPs. Many developing countries, however, are still unaware of the ways in which Sport for...
Diversity Travel
Diversity Travel is a specialist charity travel agent which, in collaboration with its airline partners, can offer charities and not for profit organisations a range of charity fares with various airlines. These special fares include features such as additional excess baggage, flexibility of...
Wesbank Sports Academy
Wesbank Sport Academy is an organisation based at Kuilsriver, near Cape Town. The Academy provides facilities for four sports, including soccer for men and women, drum majorettes, rugby and netball.
Mercy Huts
Mercy Huts is a small Christian organisation registered in Australia that aims to establish an eco-friendly beachfront surf retreat that will provide financial support, employment and training in hospitality and tourism for families living in poverty on Rote Island, Indonesia.
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD)
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD) is an NGO that exists to help people in the Isingiro district improve their quality of life through sports such as soccer, volley ball, net ball, and athletics for schools and communities. The organisation has completed a girls’ sports...
Hakuna Matata Project
The Hakuna Matata Project is a community based organisation in Kenya. The Project aims to provide a home and shelter for women and children built in an eco-friendly way and to establish a permaculture-designed farm that will provide healthy, nutritious food for the residents. There are also plans...
Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan - Creating Value for All: Community-Based Tourism
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry throughout the world. It can contribute to poverty alleviation through creating new jobs and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Community-based tourism - a type of tourism that is owned and...
Mercy Corps and Nike promote Sports for Peace and Life in Sudan
Mercy Corps has been working in Sudan using sports as a way of both rebuilding post-civil war communities and educating young people about HIV/AIDS. This effort has been supported and greatly helped by Nike's donation of large amounts of sporting equipment to the project.
Carlson
Carlson (previously named Carlson Companies) is one of the largest family-run and privately-held corporations in the United States with business in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including...
Fair Trade Sports teams up with Project Hope Worldwide
Fair Trade Sports Inc, a company that manufactures sports equipment in the US, has teamed up with Project Hope Worldwide.
Creating Value For All: Community-Based Tourism in Kyrgyzstan
Community-based tourism (CBT)-a type of a tourism that is owned and managed by the local community and its members- has emerged as a mechanism to facilitate locally based tourism activities in many developing countries, including the Kyrgyz Republic. The first CBT group was established in May 2000...
Indonesia's tourism industry is getting tsunami ready
Following the Asian tsunami the Indonsesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism has partnered with the Bali Hotels Association (BHA) to improve tsunami readiness amongst hotels. The initiative is supported by the German Centrum für Migration und Entwicklung (CIM).