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LATEST NEWS

CREST Announces the Third Travelers' Philanthropy Conference in Costa Rica July 20 - 23, 2011. Click here to read the announcement. Click here to go the website.

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CREST releases a statement about the film "Cracking the Golden Egg". Click here to read the statement. Clic aquí para leer el anuncio.

Large turnout at the World Bank Forum for the prestentation of New Studies on Coastal Tourism and Vacation Home Trends in Costa Rica and Mexico on May 27th. Click here to see the presentations and learn more about the event.

Now posted: Comprehensive New Study: "The Impact of Tourism Related Development along Costa Rica's Pacific Coast" Click here to download full report or click here to read  press coverage from Costa Rica. And click here for individual studes by research team. 

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

Second International meeting of indigenous leaders in tourism, INTIRUNA held February 24 - 27, 2010! Click here to read about the meeting.

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Click here to read about CREST's recent 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. Click here to download the full report.

The results of the first Executive Symposium for Innovators in Coastal Tourism Development are in! Click here to read the Symposium proceedings and click here to order a DVD of the proceedings.
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Our Mission

The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) is a non-profit research institution with offices in Washington, DC and at Stanford University, whose mission is to design, monitor, evaluate, and improve sustainable tourism practices and principles. Its policy-oriented research focuses on tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation, as well as socially and environmentally responsible tourism practices


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