MEET Network Experiences will now be available to a wider global market thanks to an exclusive new partnership with Intrepid Travel.
Kornati National Park, Croatia
Nizar Hani, Shouf Biosphere Reserve Director and MEET President, said:
“MEET’s partnership with Intrepid Travel is a great step to highlight the priceless value of the Mediterranean parks to responsible travellers.”
Supporting the commercialisation of its catalogue of ecotourism experiences, which have the unique feature of being designed by parks to benefit nature conservation and local communities, is key to MEET’s mission of shaping the Mediterranean into a leading ecotourism destination.
MEET has partnered with global leader and largest travel B-Corp, Intrepid Travel, to make it´s unique experiences available to wider markets. MEET´s multi-day experiences aim to immerse travellers in local nature and culture showing them a different side of what the biodiversity rich Mediterranean region has to offer. They are well matched with Intrepid Travel´s community-based travel experiences. MEET´s robust sustainability monitoring process for developing ecotourism is also in keeping with Intrepid´s ethos of responsible travel and aligns with their carbon-neutral travel style. Intrepid has included MEET experiences from Kornati Islands National Park in Croatia and Samaria Gorge National Park in Crete, Greece, within two of its new tours, with hopefully more to come over the next year.
Zina Bencheikh, Intrepid Travel Managing Director EMEA, said:
“We are very excited to work with MEET Network to bring these fantastic experiences to our travellers. These projects will bring visitors to areas away from the usual tourist trail, while protecting their cultural heritage and preserving their ecosystem. These are genuinely authentic and unique experiences for our travellers and they demonstrate that tourism really can be a force for good.”
Samaria Gorge National Park, Crete, Greece
Valentina Bračanov, from Kornati National Park in Croatia, said:
The MEET Experience in Kornati reflects our work with wiith local stakeholders to ensure conservation benefits for the protected area and economic benefits for the local community. ¨
Antonios Barnias, from Samaria National Park in Crete, said:
¨Tourism has the power to create, sustain, modify and in some cases destroy entire protected landscapes and economies. MEET is all about implementing framework for managing tourism in protected areas.”
MEET Network was born out of two conservation and sustainable tourism projects, funded by Eni CBC Programme and Interreg Med Programme, MEET Network was founded by the IUCN Mediterranean Centre for Cooperation, MedPAN Association and Shouf Biosphere Reserve in 2018. More information here.
More Information about the Intrepid Tours:
For more information please contact:
Chloe.berman@intrepidtravel.com