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Welcome to TOFT
Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT) is a unique campaign.
Founded by a group of concerned Tour Operators, TOFT has now expanded to become
a pioneering International ‘collective action’ campaign, run by Travel Professionals,
aimed at those within the nature travel industry and all visitors to India’s wildlife
parks, to advocate, endorse and support more responsible use of wilderness areas
in India, and the Indian sub continent.
Nature Tourism can and must play an important role in saving the forests of India,
today and for all our tomorrows.
Read on - and then join us if you can help play your part.
PUG Ratings
TOFT have developed a unique system of rating the ‘footprint’ of individual lodges
and hotels in wilderness regions, which we have not surprisingly called the PUG
rating. If you are a visitor to any Tiger Park, you can now use the best lodges
to ensure you travel with the lightest footprint and put the most back into preserving
India’s wildlife. If you are an International travel agent or Indian ground handler,
you can also use these ratings to make judgements on which lodges you use too!
How you, or your clients travel today, can make an extraordinary difference to preserving
wildlife.
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 Awards
We are honoured to have recently received the prestigious ‘Wind under the Wings’
award, the ABN-AMRO Wildlife Award 2007, which Abhishek Behl received in Mumbai.
Campaigns
TOFT champions responsible nature tourism as a critical tool in saving wildlife
and wilderness.
Recent Campaigns
Support for new Park Fee
proposals: July 2007
Advocating a suitable rise in park fees, and questioning MP Parks on the distribution
of funds. View the letter here
Letter to PM to support
measures to stem Tiger losses: June 2007
A plea to the Prime Minister of India to heed the advice of Independent Tiger experts.
View the letter here
Members
Our membership is aimed at everyone in the Wildlife Tourism business in India or
who sell wildlife packages into India. The collective purchasing power of our members’
supply chain, and our unique marketing platform gives us a remarkable strength to
advocate, support and endorse responsible wildlife tourism.
Consider joining us now. Click here for an
application form or if you are a lodge or resort, Click 'Register for PUG' button
below to get a PUG rating.
If you have already registered for the PUG Rating you would have received a mail containing the link for the questionnaire
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TOFT FORUM
Join the TOFT Yahoo Forum Group here
Newsletter
TOFT Newsletter
Enter your email address and click on the subscribe button to enroll for the TOFT
Newsletter
TOFT News
02 May 2008, Fri
GTP & TOFT Newsletter 2008
The GTP and TOFT Newsletter is now available online for viewing
Tiger News
25 Mar 2008, Tue
SAVE ONE, SAVE ALL
Travel Operators for Tiger (TOFT) was awarded for its work with the Indian wildlife tourism industry. Neerja Singh takes a look at the immense possibilities India offers for this nascent sector.
02 Mar 2008, Sun
Budget 2008-09 - Rs. 500 million alloted to help critically endangered tiger
Conservationists and wildlife department officials across India have welcomed Finance Minister P Chidambaram's announcement on Friday to allocate Rs 500 million to help the critically endangered tiger
Events
February 2008
TOFT Corbett Clean-up Initiative Meeting
A workshop conducted by the Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT) India program's members at The Corbett Hideaway Lodge on the 1st of February '08 at 3pm onwards
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