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talks, outreach and exchange trips!
We are asked to give talks, presentations and run informal discussions by tourism associations, town councils, businesses,local authorities, schools, universities, colleges, and community groups - and can offer a five minute slot to a full day event. We don't run out of things to say and are really, really keen to engage in active discussion with who we're visiting...if you're interested, just email us at info and we'll be happy to chat. And we also find that people want to come and visit and find out what we're doing - from Scotland, the Midlands, the South East and the South Coast - and even Australia. There are few enough places really making big strides now in sustainable tourism (although many are starting to wake up to it...) that the more we can engage with the best of those and the more we can share our expertise as one of the best areas in the South West, the better all the best will get...
Jemma at the Giant's Causeway, Ireland...
 And so we find ourselves being invited to places far, far away (ie outside Cornwall)...like Scilly, Plymouth, Exeter, Brighton, South Downs, Wales, Brittany, Ireland, Slovenia, Silesia in Poland and Holland....and when we can, we take our business ambassadors with us to talk to other businesses about what we're doing and what they're doing, to become as cutting edge sustainable as possible..meaning all the people from all over the place who are developing brand new ideas and pushing the envelope in sustainable practice are sharing that expertise with all the other early adopters...keeping that bar high and spurring us all on to even better things....which has to be A Good Thing.
In November 2008, CoaST was invited to Silesia in Poland to talk about the CoaST model and how we could exchange ideas and expertise. The Polish tourism associations were very keen to learn about the work we do here in Cornwall and would like to make their tourism industry more sustainable. Jemma and Marja received a very warm welcome (although it was freezing in the lower mountains!!) from the Silesian delegates, amongst others; Green Action, Eco development, Lower Silesia Tourism organisations, Touristic Banking and Academic institutions. We are hoping to build on this workshop in the future and maybe get an interactive exchange with businesses going!
 Ambassador Andrew Biss,
 from the Primrose Valley Hotel, shares best practice in Ireland. . .(and somehow managed to get into a club later on masquerading as a Young Hip Person...!)
Ambassadors Valerie Penny from Pollaughan Farm and Sandy Pulfrey of The Hen House enjoying a 5 minute break on the Isles of Scilly after a workshop and site visits to share best practice. . . .
Delivering the tourism outcomes of the HEATH Project has opened up opportunities to exchange best practice with HEATH partners in Brittany and Holland. In Febuary 2007 CoaST was invited on an exchange visit to Brittany (a place that is SO similar to Cornwall as the photo below highlights!) to share the outcomes of the sustainable tourism work undertaken for Natural England....
...and then in July 2007 CoaST was invited on an exchange to share the CoaST model with HEATH partners in Holland...we even had the pleasure of sampling sustainable transport in Holland. . .
It's hugely helpful to be working on an international level to see who is doing what and how we can move good ideas around ...
Some of the CoaST team recently visited the South Hams area with CoaST members Rob Constant from Cornwall Classic Car Hire and Charoltte Gliddon from the SW Lakes Trust to share GTBS best practice. . .
...so, if you'd like to chat to us about an event or talk, just email info and we'll do all we can to help.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us Marian Wright Edelman |
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