Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, in March 2010 we published 10 More #whltravel Tweeps Tweeting, all from the WHL Group. Given the interest in this, we decided to share yet another 10 #whltravel tweeps tweeting.

On Monday 6 August, The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) announced the 16 finalists (five individuals and 11 organisations) of the 2010 TIES Innovation Leadership in Sustainable Tourism Awards. The WHL Group is pleased to learn that one of its subsidiary companies, WHL Consulting, has been selected as a 2010 Innovation Award finalist for creation of the Tourism Development Bank.

Despite its successes, WHL Consulting believes that it will not be possible to continue its mission as a sustainable development organisation without addressing the key business constraint of access to finance by small businesses. So they came up with their own innovative financing tool: the Tourism Development Bank.

The Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) is North America’s largest and only conference focusing on sustainability in the tourism industry. Scheduled for 8-10 September 2010, it is fittingly being held in Portland, Oregon, a leading U.S. city that has been consistently rated ‘the most sustainable city’ in the country. The WHL Group is proud to join the industry leaders and sustainability pioneers as one of the conference’s supporting organisations.

Most of us readily to acknowledge – sometimes perhaps a little too quietly – the impact we make on host destinations when we travel. The most conscientious of us do our best to minimise our impact or make it a positive one, but there’s no question that, by traveling, we are part of something that creates change….

The WHL Group is this year’s global media partner for Wild Asia’s 2010 Responsible Tourism Awards. Now in their fifth year, the Awards are part of Wild Asia’s Responsible Tourism Initiative, an ongoing campaign to promote sustainable destinations through tourism – a goal vitally important to both partners.

On April 29, at the 2010 Travel Distribution Summit Asia in Singapore, a Web Innovation Award for Best Travel Startup of the Year was awarded to Urban Adventures. Urban Adventures, which was also shortlisted in the Most Exciting New Use of Technology in Travel category, was launched in October 2009 and has quickly grown into a global force, recently featured on Getaway, Australia’s favourite travel show.

On Thursday 1 April, Urban Adventures was featured on Getaway, Australia’s favourite travel show. The chosen destination – one of more than 50 in 30-plus countries on six continents in which Urban Adventures offers unique day tours – was the inimitable Golden Gate city of San Francisco, California.

The effect is stunning. For armchair explorers it’s about as close to a live visual experience of a place as one can get. Immersive spherical panoramic photography, sometimes called VR (virtual reality) photography, practically puts the viewer in the place of the photographer, the latter having taken multiple digital photos of a place, covering it…

Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, here are another 10 pictures of twitter users from the WHL Group.