As part of our efforts to educate consumers about responsible travel choices, TIES, along with several other global institutions and organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Programme, United Nations Foundation, Rainforest Alliance and the United Nations World Tourism Organization, has been working on developing a global process evaluating the effectiveness of certification mechanisms that clearly set apart sustainable from non-sustainable formsof tourism. (See: www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org for more information.).
They said they had the right to set the rates for those links, as they had set rates in the past for other formsof licensing of their intellectual property.