Contest Socially Responsible Tourism
Deadline of application: August 31, 2008

If you would like to participate, please download the conditions for application and the application form as PDF-File and print it.

The application form has the following entries:

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Title of the entered project or measure

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Name, address, telephone No., fax No. of the applicant

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Who is responsible for the entered project or measure?
(Name, address, telephone No., fax No., e-mail address, contact person)

Responsible for the applied project or measure is:

• a public institution/organization

• a private company/organization in the tourism industry

• other legal entity or private individual

As applicant I accept the conditions of participation of TO DO!2008.

I answered the appended questions and supplied it with enclosures.

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Location and date

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Legal signature

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Repeat signature typed with capitalized letters

Please do not submit any project which is still in the planning or implementation phase. One of the conditions for the participation in the TO DO! contest is that the project must have been implemented already.

Please explain on a separate sheet of paper how and to which extent your project/measure is fully or partly in line with the contest criteria of the TO DO!2008 (questions 1 to 6) and document your answers with suitable material (e.g. through project papers, press reports, expert opinions, photographs or video material if available).

1. Participation:
   How have the different interests and needs of the local people been taken into account during the planning/implementation phase of project/measure?
   
   
2. Awareness raising:
   In which way, in the framework of your project/measure, has awareness been raised with the local population in relation to the chances and risks of tourism development for their daily life from the point of view of economic, social and cultural aspects?
   
   
3. Broad effect:
   In which way has a broad population strata been benefiting from positive economic, social and cultural effects of tourism in the framework of your project/measure?
   
   
4. Qualified jobs in tourism:
   In which way has the attractiveness of jobs in tourism been guaranteed for the local people through your project/measure (e.g. through improved working conditions related to pay, social security,working hours, further education and training)?
   
   
5. Strengthening identity:
   How has the local culture as well as the cultural identity of those living in tourism destination areas been enhanced by your project/measure?
   
   
6. Minimising/avoiding damage:
   Through which activities in the framework of your project/measure has tourism-related social and cultural damage in the destination area been minimised or avoided?
   
   Please also answer these three additional questions.
   
   
7. Environmental compatibility:
   Could you give some examples which document that your project/measure is in line with environmental compatibility?
   
   
8. Gender Justice:
   Are there any examples in the framework of your project/measure which make clear that participation of women and men has been taken into account during the planning/implementation phase of your project/measure? Considering gender relation, can be found any improvement of the status/situation of women within your project/measure?
   
   
9. Safeguarding the future:
   Through which measures/mechanisms is the economic and institutional sustainability of the project guaranteed? In the context of safeguarding the future of the project, where do you see problems and risks?

For the purpose of easing both your and our work we ask you to give us some general data related to your project/measure (on a separate sheet of paper). It goes without saying that this information is treated as strictly confidential.

Basic information:

1. How did you get to know about the TO DO! Contest? Through:
   O media
   O embassy
   O NGO
   O consultancy
   others: ..........................................................................
   
   
2. If possible, please enclose with your contest documents a photocopy of a map showing where your project is situated.
   
   
3. Please illustrate with essential statements the history of the origins and development of your project. When, why, through whom was it founded and implemented?
   
   
4. Is the project/measure supported and accompanied by outside institutions/cooperation? If so, since when and through whom. When will this support or consultancy be terminated?
   
   
5. Are there links/networks with other similar projects or institutions in other regions or countries?

Tourism and economic data:

1. What is the concept of your tourism programmes, what are you offering?
   
   
2. How is the project marketed? Are there partnerships with tour operators or travel agencies?
   
   
3. Since the start of your project, how has the number of guests developed per year?
   
   
4. Do you make any profit yet?
   
   
5. Are you in a position to build up equity capital?
   

Official address of the contest:

Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung e.V.
Kapellenweg 3
82541 Ammerland/Starnberger See
Germany
phone: + 49-8177-1783
fax: + 49-8177-1349
e-mail: info@studienkreis.org