Companies from the public and private sector as well as NGO`s are invited to submit entries for the Ecotourism Awards program, deadline June 30th 2005

Skal, founded as an international association in 1934 is the largest organisation of travel and tourism professionals in the world, embracing all sectors of the tourism industry from hoteliers to travel agents, to Airlines, tourism media, tourism students and such... Skal with 22.000 members is active in 87 Countries and in about 500 locations around the world.

Skal International is aiming at quality in tourism and supports the alternative forms of tourism such as Sports, Cultural Tourism, Congresses and Conventions, Ecotourism, the sustainable development and responsible tourism.

Skal International following the United Nations declaration of 2002 as the Year of Ecotourism and the Mountains, launched the Skal International Ecotourism Awards in the same year, to highlight and acknowledge best practices around the globe. Skal values sustainable development in Tourism as the key to the industry`s future success and considers Ecotourism but one area of the various components of sustainable development.