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Misc Meanwhile more than 100 certificates are awarded worldwide to hotels and restaurants, tourist attractions and destinations, tour oprators and travel agencies.The global tourism market needs transparency to make decisions for the development and selling of the better choice.

The DestiNet portal provides independent quality assessed information on the labels' standards, credibility and coverage of sustainability issues. The Green Market Place on the DestiNet Atlas supports the access of certified tourism to the market. See 130 labels on the map, read the strengths and differences of 50 leading certification programmes, search more than 2000 certified businesses on the Green Market Place Atlas.

**The new 2 pages information** DestiNet provides more transparency in Sustainable Tourism < __[]__ > (September, 2013) **introduce into the topic and lead you to the information you need**

Dear colleagues and friends,oops - this was a very fast year 2011, and we made big steps forward with our projects and activities:· with the VESTAS initiative  and our contacts to the Sustainable Tourism certificates and awards  we could expanded our Atlas of Excellence  to more than 500 good practice examples world wide· with our participation in the ECOLNET project  we laid the path for the international recognition of the European Ecotourism Labelling Standard (EETLS) by the GSTC· with our FAST-LAIN project  we are finally able to develop DestiNet as professional sustainable tourism knowledge networking portal, in collaboration with an excellent mixture of regional to international partners, supporters and thematic experts (Ecotrans members)· At our Meeting on 13th December in Frankfurt we welcomed the European Network for Heritage Interpretation “Interpret Europe  ” as new member and laid the base for 2012 (minutes will follow).In the year 2012 we willend of January launch the new DestiNet portal with an exciting new interface and design - have a first look  !participate at the RIO+20 conference and the at the Olympic Peace initiative in London (initiated by Gordon Sillence, see attached Xmas Card!)implement our European ECOTRANS knowledge networking services together with all our members: to support their own initiatives and exchange, to expand our network and to strengthen our contributions to making tourism more sustainable, e.g. regarding Climate Change as "never ending story" (see attached Xmas Card) .We thank you for your ongoing support and collaboration - and we wish you all a very peaceful Christmas and New Year 2012