WHA Members

"The Alliance makes so much sense. The travel industry needs to be part of the solution in preserving and protecting these fragile treasures. As travel industry educators, we see a rising need to engage the industry at all levels -- from bell boys to bar tenders -- to ensure that responsible practices are being adopted," says owner Greg Custer. Destination Ventures has developed the on-line and "live" seminar content for the Alliance.

Destination Ventures is uniquely experienced to perform a variety of travel industry training and consultation functions. Whether it's presenting educational seminars, developing an online learning module, staging a tradeshow, or coaching your sales team on their presentation skills, your educational program will become the travel agents lifeline to effectively selling your product. Headquartered in Bend, Oregon, our specialty is travel agent educational programs, custom crafted for the targeted audience and communication medium of your choosing.

Destination Ventures and the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism:

• Implementing the World Heritage Alliance principles
  

  One way that we implement these principles is via an assortment of “live” and on-line training programs for North American travel agents. These programs all carry the message of responsible tourism and World Heritage site awareness.

• Participating in staff training programs
  

  Destination Ventures provides services directly to the WHA, via both “live” and on-line educational tools.  Destination Ventures works with all WHA members to ensure their training goals are implemented and that customer-facing staff learn about sustainable tourism, local World Heritage sites, and responsible stewardship of local assets.
  

• Educating customers about World Heritage
  

  Destination Ventures, Ltd also embraces the Alliance mission via its other travel industry training initiatives. These include World Heritage and responsible travel promotion weaved into programs operated for a broad range of Latin American clients. With training programs from Chile to Mexico, Destination Ventures strive to take the Alliance message to travel agents around the world.

• Supporting community development around World Heritage sites
  

  Destination Ventures donates monies to the Friends of World Heritage Fund to support communities around World Heritage sites. A portion of our agent enrollment fees are donated each year to this fund, in the name of our travel agent supporters.

• Engaging employees to support the local community
  
• Supporting the United Nations in its efforts
  

  To encourage sustainable tourism and the protection of World Heritage sites we build sustainable tourism messages into all of our educational outreach tools. These include travel agent training programs for Chile, Mexico and a host of individual Mexican destination tourism boards: Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Colonial Treasures, Riviera Maya and others.