NT Consulting : An international ground experience
At a time of deep social and behavioural changes, tourism industry is also in full change ; customers expectations change : tourism must privilege exchanges between cultures. The immersion in an "authentic" environment becomes a choice of holidays which attracts more and more followers. Today, one wants to travel "responsible".
The responsibility thus defines the emergent designs of tourism.
– Responsibility of operators, which must ensure the harmonious and ethical practices with respect to their partners, the local communities and their customers,
– Responsibility of local authorities which must set up the territory while mitigating the impacts of tourism on the environment and the local populations,
– Responsibility of the customers with respect to the local populations and to the environment : charters, ecopostures…
Responsible tourism, ecotourism, sustainable tourism, interdependant, ethical, Community-based… the terminology is extremely varied and NT Consulting talks about New Tourism. The consultants working with NT Consulting have been travelling and working in many countries. NT mainly means New Tourism, the one we wish to promote here, another way of travelling on "New Territories".
The social and environmental responsibility of tourism companies is growing, but the real upheaval relates to customers expectations : New sets of themes offers appear and work tomorrow’s markets of growth : Initiation to traditional cooking, agri-tourism, ayurvedic massages, yoga, meditation, scientific tourism, pottery courses, total immersion into _ villages… New tourism takes seat on the territories, far from the traditional cocktail "sea and sun".
Correctly planned and managed, these new forms of tourism can constitute significant sources of economic advantages, as well for the governments as for the heads of private companies, the local authorities and communities… while representing an effective instrument for the safeguarding of natural and cultural inheritance.
Responsible tourism does not claim to represent the quintessence of ideal tourism, but it intends to propose tracks of realistic reflexion and action, in close link with the receiving medium.
NT Consulting is specialized in the development of responsible tourism and carries out national and international projects :
* With territorial organizations (country, area, community, village, etc.) for which the tourist economy is an engine of development and conservation,
* With tourist organizations (hotel, providing sports activities, cultural and leisures, turn international operators) wishing to integrate the spirit of the durable development, but for which a step of the type "certification" is, initially, expensive or not easily applicable
* With international development agencies and NGOs which now look at tourism as part with of the economic development of a country.
Our objectives
NT Consulting implements the tourism project with a sustainable vision in order :
* To raise awareness, train and accompany tourist companies managers and local tour operators,
* To develop profitable products while respecting the surrounding natural environment,
* To provide new opportunities satisfying local expectations as economic growth and employment,
* To improve competitiveness and to develop the destinations attractiveness.
Contact
NT Consulting
11, chemin de la halte des Flachères
69269 Charbonnières-les-Bains
06.22.79.55.06
Email : contact@n-t-consulting.com