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Tourism is a multi-trillion-dollar industry but many local businesses and communities don’t benefit from it. As the world’s leading non-governmental organization turning travel into impact for communities, Planeterra helps local organizations and communities use tourism as a catalyst to improve people’s lives, protect their natural environments, and celebrate their culture. We are dedicated to creating a better kind of tourism—one which makes communities healthier as they provide travelers with better experiences.

Ripple Effect Images envisions a world in which all women and girls thrive. We multiply the impact of proven solutions empowering women and children by using world-class visual storytelling to illuminate successful initiatives. Our films, photographs, and animations have been featured in programs highlighting the need for change in more than 20 countries globally, including Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. We elevate, we amplify, we accelerate. This truly is the ripple effect at work.

For nearly 20 years, Tourism Cares has mobilized leading travel associations and companies to move travel in a positive direction. As a catalyst of positive social, environmental, and economic impact for the people and places of travel, we have invested millions of dollars in programming to support travel destinations worldwide. We have adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and use them to guide our organizational goals, educational tools, and events.