Supporting Business Membership
Membership with Sustainable Travel International is designed to help your company grow, lower your operational costs, provide you with educational resources, and enhance your understanding of how to enhance your positive impacts. Additionally, your investment in STI helps us pursue our non-profit mission to help protect the destinations you serve and the planet at large.
Our standard 12-month membership is for travel and tourism providers, NGOs, academic institutions, and others who wish to demonstrate substantial support for sustainable tourism and ecotourism.
Supporting Business Memberships
Supporting Business membership fees are based on ANNUAL GROSS REVENUES from OVERALL operations:
US$0-$125,000
Membership Fee = $100
US$125,001-$250,000
Membership Fee = $150
US$250,001-$500,000
Membership Fee = $200
US$500,001 +
Membership Fee = $300 |
$100 USD
1-year membership
annual rev: $0-$125,000

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$150 USD
1-year membership
annual rev: $125,001-$250,000

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$200 USD
1-year membership
annual rev: $250,001-$500,000

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$300 USD
1-year membership
annual rev: $500,001+

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Benefits Include
STI Membership provides you with tools and discounts in the following categories:
STI Exclusive Benefits for Members
Marketing and Advertising
Reservation and Booking Services
Design and Branding
Public Relations and Communications Services
Association Memberships
| STI Exclusive Benefits for Members |
Logo Use – Sustainable Travel International members are given the exclusive right to feature our globally recognized logo to demonstrate their support for and affiliation with Sustainable Travel International.
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Members Only e-Newsletter – STI sends out a bi-monthly Members Only e-Newsletter, providing updates, news, information, tools, and networking opportunities specifically relevant to STI Members. |
Sustainable Tourism Eco-certification Program™ (STEP) - Receive a complimentary copy of STI’s Self-assessment Tool - a US$150 value! This standalone educational, measurement and management framework doubles as an application for companies wanting to become Eco-assessed or Eco-certified through STEP. Email us to get your free copy today. For more information, or to begin the application process, please visit www.ecocertification.org.
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Carbon Calculators – 10% discount on STI’s standard iFrame carbon calculators. STI builds standard and custom iFrame carbon calculators for inclusion on your website. To learn more, click here.
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Members-only Webinars – Free webinars for STI Members. STI uses our extensive knowledge of sustainability and the travel industry, along with our network of experts, to create educational webinars on a range of topics. Designed to help you learn and implement sustainable tourism best practices in your business, this benefit is available exclusively to STI Members and Sponsors. Contact us for the current schedule of topics or for more information. |
Travelers Giving Back™ Giving Portals – 10% discount on Donation Portals for your website. STI builds iFrame Donation Portals for inclusion on your company’s website to attract financial support for sustainable development-oriented projects that that are located in the destinations you serve. To learn more, click here. |
| Marketing and Advertising |
Green.Travel –Complimentary Standard Listing (a $200-$400 value) on Green.travel — the one-stop-shop resource for travelers who want to learn about responsible travel and book trips, airfare, car rentals and more.
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STI’s Eco-directory –Prominently featured on www.sustainabletravel.com, STI’s Eco-directory exclusively features our members. Supporting Business Members receive a listing that includes your company profile, details about your sustainability policy, and information regarding your commitment to environmental, socio-cultural, and economic performance. |
Responsible Travel Report e-Newsletter – Received by more than 25,000 conscientious consumers, STI’s Responsible Travel Report is the tool for reaching an expansive audience of responsible travelers. STI members are entitled to one feature article per year. |
Green Travel Market - Complimentary listing on Green Travel Market (GTM). GTM features comprehensive, reliable, up-to-date information on sustainable tourism products that are currently available in the global marketplace. GTM offers a matchmaking service for tour operators and local suppliers, marketing, product development and more. |
EcoTourDirectory.com – 10% discount off of a listing with EcoTourDirectory.com. EcoTourDirectory.com features dozens of eco-holidays, tour operators, and eco-lodging providers to help travelers plan their next day trip, weekend break or trip of a lifetime. |
Green Living Project – 10% discount off of Green Living Project’s standard rates. Services include multimedia production (HD video and photography of responsible tourism stories), event marketing and promotion (extensive marketing of your story on GLP’s 40-stop North American event series), and online marketing and promotion on GLP’s website, social media sites, and content distribution partners. |
socialDragon – 10% discount off of socialDragon's CONVERSATIONALmarketing™ services. In addition, STI Members receive a free marketing consultation prior to launching their campaigns in order to optimize their social marketing efforts. |
Mixpo – Free 30-minute video marketing consultation from Mixpo, who offers online video advertising and marketing solutions. |
| Reservation and Booking Services |
Adventure Engine – 20% discount off listing services. Add a listing of your trips to your profile in STI's Eco-directory including availability checker and online booking capabilities. Adventure Engine also offers online shopping carts and payment processing for your own website, as well as distribution opportunities, agent login and more. |
Adventure Central – 10% discount off of Adventure Central's back office applications and reservation system packages. Adventure Central is the leading provider of innovative online booking and distribution services for the adventure and experiential travel industry. |
Rezhub.com – Free advertising in RezHub.com's SearchDirect feature. If you offer bookings through your website, you can participate. Your logo will appear to customers searching for travel in the destinations you offer. |
| Design and Branding |
Blue Marble Creative – Free one hour design consultation, as well as 25% off the first project. Blue Marble Creative works with passionate business owners who want to use their business to make the world better. |
SideStreet – 20% discount off SideStreet graphic design services to develop custom branded maps and destinations, packages, routes and itineraries (unlimited number of maps), as well as a complimentary upgrade to SideNote service for the first map developed by SideStreet (a $500/map value). |
| Public Relations and Communications Services |
TravMedia – 15% discount off of TravMedia's travel news media distribution service. For travel companies and related organizations, TravMedia offers the complete communications channel to key media both regionally and worldwide. |
Adventure Travel Media Source – 10% discount off of Adventure Travel Media Source's PR services. Improve your visibility in targeted media outlets. And get the attention of travel writers and editors through email press releases, feature story promotions, and on-line media kits. |
Association Memberships |
Adventure Travel and Trade Association – 20% discount off of Adventure Travel Trade Association membership. |
Japan Ecolodge Association – Qualified lodging providers receive complimentary “overseas eco-lodge partner” benefits from the Japan Ecolodge Association, including an overseas eco-lodge partner links listing, marketing and promotions to responsible tourists in Japan, translation of partner eco-lodge websites into Japanese, and inclusion in JELA's e-Newsletter. |
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