You’re invited: Learn about best practices at the EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards

You’re invited to the cere­mony of the third edi­tion of the EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards to take place on Octo­ber 1! 

This spe­cial event will hon­our out­stand­ing organ­isa­tions ded­ic­ated to pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able and respons­ible tour­ism, cel­eb­rat­ing their achieve­ments with well-deserved recog­ni­tion and awards.

What to expect

This year’s event will feature:

• Hon­our­ing the win­ners: Recog­nising cham­pi­ons of sus­tain­ab­il­ity, in the People and Plan­et cat­egor­ies, as selec­ted by our pan­el of expert judges.
• People’s Choice Awards: Announ­cing the win­ners chosen by pub­lic vote.
• Inspir­ing con­ver­sa­tions: A pan­el dis­cus­sion ‘The Tour­ism Chal­lenge — From Foot­print to Fund­ing: How Tour­ism Can Tackle Car­bon from the Ground Up’

The event will be held online, via a livestream from 0700 GMT on Octo­ber 1:

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Compelling stories

Each and every EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award win­ner has unique and inter­est­ing story to tell. At writ­ing, two past win­ners are fea­tured on The “Good Tour­ism” Blog:

Reclaim the riverside! Creating family-friendly green spaces in Hanoi

Think Play­grounds is pro­tect­ing the unique biod­iversity of the Red River through the cre­ation of inclus­ive meet­ing places on the edge of deprived neigh­bour­hoods in Hanoi, Vietnam.

• A grow­ing need for green spaces in Hanoi
• Think Play­grounds’ vision
  • Phuc Tan Park and Chuong Duong Park: Green oases on the banks of the Red River
  • Sus­tain­ab­il­ity through com­mit­ment: Many hands main­tain green meet­ing spaces!
  • Grow­ing sup­port for sus­tained success
• About Think Playgrounds
  • Join the Movement

As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?

The travel & tour­ism industry can be expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water, par­tic­u­larly in com­munit­ies and des­tin­a­tions in which it oper­ates. This story sheds light on IDEP Foundation’s Bali Water Pro­tec­tion (BWP) initiative.

• Behind the lux­ury
• The true cost of comfort
• Liv­ing on the same water: Time to give back to Bali
• Towards a new stand­ard of tour­ism: What BWP offers today
• Time for tour­ism to become a guard­i­an of nature
• About IDEP Foundation

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Meet the judges

A dis­tin­guished pan­el of inter­na­tion­al sus­tain­able tour­ism experts has eval­u­ated each nom­in­ee for the third EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards.

• Koko Tang, Founder, Col­or­ful Earth
• Charlie Cot­ton, Founder, ecollective
• Prof Dr Willy Legrand, Pro­fess­or, IU Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sciences
• Lydia Tiasiri, Design Dir­ect­or & Chief Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Officer, Fenn Designers
• Daniel Quintana, Dir­ect­or of Mar­ket­ing, UnTours Foundation
• Dr Mihee Kang, Chief Assur­ance Officer, Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Council
• Mat­teo Bier­schneider, Con­sult­ant & Part­ner, Wise Steps Consulting

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Learn from the panellists

‘The Tour­ism Chal­lenge — From Foot­print to Fund­ing: How Tour­ism Can Tackle Car­bon from the Ground Up’ will be mod­er­ated by Prof Dr Willy Legrand and feaure:

• Daniel Quintana from Untours Found­a­tion and The Reset Tour­ism Fund
• Charlie Cot­ton from ecollective 
• Lydia Tiasiri from Fenn Design­ers, a sus­tain­ab­il­ity con­sult­ant for hotels, and an auditor

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Save the date

Date: Octo­ber 1, 2025 

Time: 0700 GMT / 1400 ICT Awards cere­mony, fol­lowed at 0800 GMT / 1500 ICT by a pan­el dis­cus­sion: ‘The Tour­ism Chal­lenge — From Foot­print to Fund­ing: How Tour­ism Can Tackle Car­bon from the Ground Up’.

Save the date and join us for this inspir­ing, enga­ging event as we cel­eb­rate a shared vis­ion for a more respons­ible future in tourism.

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About EXO Foundation

EXO Found­a­tion is a non-profit organ­isa­tion based in South­east Asia sup­port­ing loc­al grass­roots projects. 

EXO Found­a­tion strives to be a driv­ing force in act­ively fos­ter­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and improv­ing pos­it­ive soci­et­al and envir­on­ment­al changes through the pro­mo­tion of respons­ible tourism. 

It also aims to pave the way for main­stream­ing good prac­tices with­in the travel industry in Asia that will max­im­ise the poten­tial for tour­ism to become a tool for poverty alle­vi­ation and sus­tain­able development. 

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