National Geographic To Promote Cooks As Geotourism Destination
The National Geographic Society has signed an agreement with the Rarotonga government to promote the Cook Islands as a "geotourism" destination.
The Cook Islands is the first destination in the Pacific to sign the National Geographic's Geotourism Charter and only the fourth destination in the world.
"Geotourism focuses on those attributes that make a place worth visiting. It's about what makes one place different from the next," according to Jonathan Tourtellot, director of
National Geographic's Center for Sustainable Destinations.
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| Younger sister for Antarctic
New Zealand-based Heritage Expeditions will use a new ship next season to operate its expedition cruises to the Southern Ocean.
Spirit of Enderby, 48 passengers, is a sister ship to Akademik Shokalskiy, which Heritage operated for 10 years.
Younger than Shokalskiy, Enderby will carry a fleet of RIBs (rigid inflatable boats, sometimes called Zodiacs). The ship's amphibious ATV's (all terrain vehicles) will whisk passengers across ice, while an onboard helicopter handles ice reconnaissance flights, sightseeing and landing passengers.
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| | The Great Australian Outback Cattle Drive
Watch for details of the next drive scheduled for 2009.
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