9/4/11

Share your responsible travel experiences! - MyNatour Ecotourism Contest


by Marcela Torres

"Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I'll understand” - Rabindranath Tagore

If you practice responsible tourism, here’s your chance to share your experiences and spread the word! Mynatour ecotourism community, sponsored by WHL.Travel, is launching the first-ever ecotourism travel blog contest.

The idea of the contest is to promote ecotourism and responsible tourism through a travel blog competition where the audience is involved in electing the best ecotourism story. Users will be able to upload their holiday experience, evaluate how they have been eco-friendly on their holiday or how to improve their experience towards a more sustainable level in the future.

Participants will be required to join the Mynatour ecotourism community to take part in the contest. To allow everyone to express his/her best way the travel blog will include the possibility to enter a text of max 1000 words, 1 main photo and max 4 additional images. A specific area of the travel blog (250 words) will be dedicated to evaluate their best ecotourism practices “on the road”. Furthermore if they have been on a normal tour competitors will be able to provide in the same section tips or thoughts about how the destination or they can improve with eco friendly practices.

Most importantly, the contest will allow participants to vote for their favorite travel blog. The top ten voted travel blog will be reviewed by an expert panel and 3 of them will be chosen for the grand prizes. The 3 winners will be able to pick out of 6 amazing ecotourism holidays for 2 people, courtesy of WHL.Travel. The winner will be able to choose first and so on till the 3rd.

The only foot print you leave is your story! Ecotourism Travel Blog Contest will run through October, 2011. Online registration is already open. Travel blog uploads will be open from September 19 thru October 23. The voting period will be from October 24 till November 7. The winner will be announced on Friday, November 11 during the World Travel Market in London.

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