Youth in GeoTourism
- Cultural preservation
- Conscious consumerism
- Green consumerism
- Youth leadership
- Waste
- Travel and tourism
Natalia
Najmi
YOUNITEAM Union in the sphere of social entrepreneurship
, RSA
YOUNITEAM Union in the sphere of social entrepreneurship
, RSA
We want to bring up the community of socially responsible entrepreneurs who are leading their activities and important social projects worldwide and also who are able to travel all over the world even being young. We divide special attention to tourism and travel sector in our Union as we believe that every person being socially responsible himself can bring and inspire by this the other people and communities while travelling. We are developing several projects with unique conceptions currently that aim to give the opportunity to young people to explore new countries, cultures and languages and with aim to bring positive change. We will implement GeoTourism conception to all our travel projects to value and enhance environment, heritage and culture of native population. We plan also initiate travel projects that develop and bring knowledge to local communities.
There will be the following steps in the project: 1. We will announce the start of the project and make eConferences on the GeoTourism conception. 2. We will select participants from different countries to participate in Youth in GeoTourism 2011 in Morocco. 3. We will agree with hotels to host changemakers. 4. Realization of project: Participants will make entertaining and at the same time educating activities for the tourists in the hotel and in nearby shores. 5. Together we will attract media and the public attention to existing problems and possibility to solve them on the level of personal responsibility. 6. Participants will upload photos and videos to the site of the project to show the change to international public and inspire new changemakers to take part in the next editions of the project.
We expect the following results: 1. Popularization of GeoTourism among large number of people worldwide (we will track the number of people on every eConference). 2. Establish nice relationships between country members and their collaboration – several people from different countries benefit for the positive change in Morocco. 3. Involving companies (partners) and hotels to support GeoTourism. 4. Receiving positive feedback from all parties upon project realization: participants, hosting hotels, partner companies and organizations. 5. Having several interview and broadcasts of the project in media. 6. Obtaining long-term impact after realization – by promoting the project site showing real changes possible for everyone to make to international public.
Second year of project realization: Realizing the project in different coastal cities in Morocco – interested participants will themselves contact planned hosting hotels, present the conception of GeoTourism and agree on their participation / after our guidance + catching attention of lots of people all over the world to GeoTourism by project web site, conferences, etc. Third year of project realization – Going Global: creating community of people who support the conception of project worldwide and creating initiative groups to realize the project in different countries of the world.
Unexpected geo or political conditions in the region that belong to the category of force-major such as natural cataclysms, war or weapon conflicts, terrorist attack, etc. We also need certain support such as coaching, help with development better detailed conception, promotion, etc as we do not have enough experience in this sphere and Youth in GeoTourism project was inspired by the current challenge when we first get in touch with the topic , realized its importance and become passionate to make a change. As our main change force are people themselves there is the risk not to have enough supporters, but we hope to prevent it with our work and enthusiasm.
1001‐10,000
$100 ‐ 1000
Yes
Idea phase
, RSA
Yes
YOUNITEAM Union in the sphere of social entrepreneurship
1‐5 years
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
We believe that we can realize the project even using our own efforts only. Still the help of travel companies will make possible visas consultation and assistance, booking the flights for participants, etc; governmental support will make it possible more likely to involve media attention to the project; partner NGOs can help with popularization of the project and volunteer people involvement when needed.
1. Get in touch with communities of change agents where the people support important initiatives and struggle for positive changes. 2. Community activation by proposing challenging and sustainable occupations in the sphere of passion of each concrete individual and community as a whole. 3. Showing the results on the sites of the projects to international public and transmitting the information with concrete examples of changes made by individuals and groups; bringing this understanding from person to person like an Olympic flame to increase the number and impact of socially responsible people in the world.
Youth in GeoTourism project was inspired by the current challenge – GeoTourism Challenge 2011: Places on the Edge :) We were thinking of creating important social projects in the touristic sphere and this challenge inspired us for creating such a project, brought the understanding of importance of GeoTourism and gave us a push to look for more information in this sphere and to brainstorm ideas to make the changes possible in the nearest future.
Me, Natalia Ukho, I was working as volunteer in the international students’ organization AIESEC for 4 years in People Development department and also as Event coordinator. I was developing local committees in Ukraine, Belgium and Morocco. During this period I took part in trainings from multinational companies on leadership, entrepreneurship, etc as well as acquired understanding of existing world problems and great motivation to become a change agent. I was one of the organizers of event for more than 50 children in small town in Ukraine to inspire them for personal achievements as well organized other social, teambuilding and leadership events and conferences for young people. I received the certificate of international facilitator after training course in Belgium in 2005 as well as different other honors and certificates for personal and professional achievements. As a vice-president of international charitable fund “Commonwealth of Nations” organized 3days festival for 220 talented children in 2009. Since November 2008 working in the sphere of social entrepreneurship and developing ideas and conception of own project for initiative community YOUNITEAM Union in the sphere of social entrepreneurship.
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