Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, have teamed up with Montana, U.S.A., to launch a transboundary geotourism program for the region centered on the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Read the Press Release (PDF).

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President Oscar Berger presided as Guatemala signed the Geotourism Charter in April 2007, launching a program planned to include a community-based national Geotourism Stewardship Council, a Geotourism MapGuide, and other elements. Read the Press Release (PDF).

Governor Donald Carcieri signed the Geotourism Charter in May 2007, demonstrating the state's continued commitment to exemplary destination stewardship. A new multi-sector task force, the Rhode Island Geotourism Collaborative, plans to hold a statewide series of workshops. Read the Press Release.

In an alliance with the Sonoran Institute, CSD has helped communities create the first transborder Geotourism MapGuide, for southern Arizona, U.S.A., and northern Sonora, Mexico.

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CSD and the Northeast Kingdom Geotourism Alliance have completed a MapGuide of the most rural and, some say, authentic corner of Vermont. View "Geotourism Grows in Vermont" (PDF).

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Romania signed the Geotourism Charter in 2005. Transylvania's beautiful Brasov County is the first to begin developing a geotourism project. See www.brasovtourism.com

Innovation Norway signed the Geotourism Charter (PDF) on August 31, 2005, becoming the first European country to adopt a national geotourism platform.

In the world's first country to sign the Geotourism Charter (PDF), CSD is supplying a Geotourism for Communities booklet in Spanish (PDF).

CSD partnered with the Appalachian Regional Commission and the people of Appalachia to create the first Geotourism MapGuide, published in the April 2005 National Geographic Traveler magazine. NGS also produced an online version.

CSD is working with Peruvian authorities and the World Bank on tourism aspects of a project for rehabilitating the valley of the Rio Vilcanota from Machu Picchu almost to Cuzco, an area that includes the "Sacred Valley."

Partnering with Lindblad Expeditions, Fondo Mexicano Para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza, and local communities, CSD has completed a MapGuide for the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.

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