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The Sustainable Arctic Tourism Association (SATA) was
founded in October 2005.
Most people who live in the arctic or visit it want it to
maintain its qualities. But for example it is as a traveller
hard to know the quality of one specific operator and the
nature of the region in advance of booking a trip. It is
also hard for an individual operator to define his or her
own quality. The Sustainable Arctic Tourism Association
(SATA) is an international association based in Sweden, and
we want to deal with this problem. The SATA wants to develop
contacts between tourism operators, travellers and nature
conservation interests in the Arctic.
The project SMART/link to project information/ also
mentioned in this website has created a number of principles
for sustainable tourism in the Arctic and a set of training
modules. They form the base for SATA and for the development
of a code of conduct or - in the future - a label for
sustainable arctic tourism. In Sweden, one of the
territories of the Arctic, there is already such a label.
The conditions in the countries that form the Arctic have a
lot in common, and the world already knows what the Arctic
is (in general, but not in detail). You might say the Arctic
is a well known trademark with no owner. This is an
important advantage for future tourism development. We in
SATA want to gather operators, organizations and individuals
to make Sustainable Arctic Tourism a sign of quality. Today
the members keep contact nationally and the board meets
mostly by phone, or over the web by iLink or Skype.
Interested? – Use our results! Take part in our work! Debate
in the Arctic Tourism Forum/link/! Read our e-newsletter!
Become a member! Are you an operator? - Show your customers
that you are a member of SATA!
Get in touch with SATA through your nearest national contact!
SATA is a young organization and becomes what its members
make of it!
Practical information
There are three forms of membership
- General member for operators the annual fee is 50 €
- Associate member for organisations the annual fee is 50 €
- Individual member the annual fee is 20 €
Get in touch with SATA through our national contacts.
These are the board members of SATA:
- Wendy Sailors Alaska, USA
- Mike Couvrette Northwest Territories, Canada vice
chairman
- Maureen Bundgaard Nunavut, Canada
- Miriam Geitz Norway
- Peter Lugnegård Sweden chairman
- Mirkka Vaarala Finland secretary
- Jari Laitakari Finland treasurer
- Martha Madsen Kamchatka, Russia
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