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Stepup Travel
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StepUp Travel -- http://www.stepuptravel.org -- connects travelers directly with local people offering unique activities and accommodations. StepUp Travel is a travel classifieds site established to allow local enterprises and individuals to publish web-page advertisements of unique cultural services, activities, and accommodations they offer. By using StepUp Travel and connecting directly with locals, travelers are able to discover more obscure and fascinating activities, while also helping direct money toward the people who make their culture what it is.

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Library http://www.stepuptravel.org/library

Services http://www.stepuptravel.org/our_services

Advocacy http://www.stepuptravel.org/advocacy

Here are some of the ways Step Up Travel has been involved in tourism advocacy:

> Provided seed funding for the microfinance tourism non-profit [|Investours.org] - Oaxaca, Mexico, 2008 > Community Based Tourism in Asia; an Overview. Daniella Schiller, Research Intern, Step-Up travel and Asian Encounters > Oral Presentation and Workshop Leader: [|Meeting the Need for a Global Internet Marketing and Social Networking Tool for Local Micro-enterprise and SME Tourism Development] > Panelist, Socially Conscious Investing: Tourism Perspective > Poster Presentation by Sweeney R.T., Brito A., Zimmerman S.: [|Sustainable Travel for Eradication of Poverty]
 * [|Why We Need Micro-loan Tours instead of Slum Tourism] - Brave New Traveler, March 2007
 * The [|e-Bario Knowledge Fair] - Sarawak, Malaysia, December 2007
 * [|International Institute of Peace through Tourism] 4th African Conference - Kampala, Uganda, May 2007
 * University of Pennsylvania [|PIBV] Wharton Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility - Philadelphia, United States, February 2007
 * [|World Social Forum] Workshop: Sustainable Tourism for the Eradication of Poverty - December 2006
 * [|Desti-Nations] World Tourism Forum for Peace and Sustainable Development - Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 2006
 * UNWTO Global E-conference on the [|role of development communication in sustainable tourism] - Online, June 2006