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Our Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards
We are proud to announce the winners of our Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2009: Whale Watch Kaikoura, New Zealand!

The judges said "Rarely do we see a tourism initiative developed from the ground up by a local community to such a successful and grand scale – growing from modest beginnings to securing in a joint venture with Sea World on the Gold Coast of Australia to provide their whale watching."

Visit our dedicated Awards website at www.responsibletourismawards.com for more details and the full list of winners.

responsibletravel.com founded and organise the Awards - the most prestigious of their kind in the world - in partnership with The Daily Telegraph, Geographical Magazine, World Travel Market, and our headline sponsor, Virgin Holidays.

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