Certification
WHAT IS CERTIFICATION? Our Eco – based Certification systems or ‘Kitemarks ‘, assures all travellers, their agents, and operators, and all those involved in operating, planning, or managing nature-based tourism, …
TOFT India is a collective action campaign; a global alliance to help drive nature stewardship across South Asia and beyond.
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The travel and tourism industry is one of the world’s largest industries, contributing hugely to many nations economic health and development. It’s also powerful as a job creator, a nature conservation tool, as a community development tool and to help poverty reduction across the world. It has recognised cross cultural benefits, as well as, educational health and human well-being benefits.
The PUG certification is aimed solely at nature focused accommodation and lodge providers who seek to provide their visitors with a principally nature based travel experiences, and their operations have a very direct bearing on the nature destination itself, on its flora and fauna and with its neighbouring communities.
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The Footprint certification is aimed at all accommodation and lodging providers whose client base is not wholly nature focused, but enjoying leisure, family or corporate time within any destination, be it in a natural, rural or an urban landscape.
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As part of TOFT India commitment to support the integration of wildlife conservation with building sustainable tourism, ensuring destination management and land use planning and enhanced visitor experiences and guiding, so we have committed over the last fifteen years to a host of training programmes.
TOFT India runs a variety of training courses and workshops for both private, non-government and government sectors involved in lodge management, wildlife guiding, nature destination sustainability and sustainable tourism planning and provision in both protected and non-protected areas.
They can be sponsored by the Private Sector, funded directly by TOFT India, sponsored by travel businesses or as part of a Government supported training programme.
Requests for training, training courses, sustainability-based workshops for the industry and for Governments continue to be run as needed, planned or requested.
As part of our commitment to educating the Travel Community and visitors with regards to nature travel and responsible tourism, our Training Staff are available for specific lectures, presentations and workshops.
‘In an increasingly digitally-connected, work-centric, and material world, travellers are seeking opportunities to reconnect with nature, other people, and a sense of individual meaning. Both the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations have shown inclinations to pay a premium for authentic and meaningful travel.’ CREST Centre for Responsible Travel
If you are in the travel and tourism business working within or operating from outside the Indian subcontinent, you will have the opportunity to highlights your commitments and actions to sustainability by using and promoting our TOFT India logo, using our globally recognised Certification kitemark as a promotional or purchasing tool of renowned integrity, gaining both industry and consumer trust with your own commitments to your corporate sustainability efforts.