The 2016 Green Tourism Summit and Mazingira Awards held on 16th and 17th June 2016 at the Sarova Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit which also hosts the Mazingira Awards is organized and hosted by Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda (STTA), a Kenyan organization working to elevate dialogues around green tourism and the broader green development agenda. The overriding theme for the summit was, “The Future is Green”. The issues…

The inaugural Green Tourism Summit was held on 11th and 12th June 2015 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Upper Hill Nairobi. The convener of the summit Judy Kepher Gona, rallying call was “One billion travelers – One planet – Consume with care” which was borrowed from the World Environment Day theme dubbed, “7 billion interests – One planet – Consume with care”. The summit provided a platform aimed at challenging interactive…