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Martha Honey (born xx xx, xxxx, in xxxxx) is a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), a non-profit research organization working to make travel a force for local community development and biodiversity conservation.

She has written and spoken widely on ecotourism, Travelers' Philanthropy, and certification issues. Her books include Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? (Island Press, 1999 and 2008) and Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice (Island Press, 2002).

Academic Background
Honey holds a Ph.D. in African History from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, an M.A. in African American Studies from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in history from Oberlin College.

Work in Journalism
For 20 years Honey worked as a journalist overseas, based first in Tanzania and then in Costa Rica. She reported for BBC, CBC, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, New York Times, The (London) Guardian and other news media.

Along with her husband Tony Avirgan, Honey had an up-close window on some of the most volatile but little understood wars of regions in Central America and East Africa. She chronicled the CIA’s War in Costa Rica including eyewitness accounts of a botched assassination attempt. Her experiences in Africa led to the essay "Racism, Exploitation and Neglect: Bush and Africa," which was included in the book Power Trip: US Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11. She and Avirgan also published a book War in Uganda: The legacy of Idi Amin.

Work in Ecotourism and Travel
Honey was the Executive Director of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) from 2003 to 2006. During her tenure, TIES conducted the first worldwide study on the social and environmental footprint of nature-based lodges, supported relief efforts and advocated for sustainable tourism in Indian Ocean countries devastated by tsunami, sponsored the first conference on Ecotourism in the US, and launched distance learning courses and Sustainable Tourism Certification with George Washington University.

Honey left TIES to manage her own ecotourism-focused non-profit called the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development. The center was renamed in March 2009 to the Center for Responsible Travel. The center coordinates international research projects, produces publications, participates in and organizes international workshops and conferences, and organizes responsible tourism courses and seminars at Stanford and other institutions. Honey has written three books regarding ecotourism: Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise?, Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice, Protecting Paradise: Certification Programs for Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism.

Publications

 * Honey, Martha (2008). Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? (Second Edition). Island Press. ISBN: 9781597261265.
 * Honey, Martha (2002). Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9781559639514.
 * Honey, Martha and Rome, Abigail (2001). Protecting Paradise: Certification Programs for Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism.
 * Honey, Martha, Phyllis Bennis, and Stephen Zunes (2001). The Failure of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq And Proposed Alternatives. Middle East Policy Council.
 * Honey, Martha and Barry, Tom (2000). Global FocusU.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-0-312-22771-5 ISBN-10: 0-312-22771-X.
 * Honey, Martha (1998). Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? (First Edition). Island Press. ISBN-10: 1559635819 ISBN-13: 978-1559635813.
 * Honey, Martha and Barry, Tom (1997). Global Focus: A New Foreign Policy Agenda, 1997-1998. Interhemispheric. ISBN-10: 0911213627 ISBN-13: 978-0911213621.
 * Honey, Martha (1994). Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s. University Press of Florida. ISBN: 0813012503
 * Honey, Martha and Avirgan, Tony (1989). John Hull, El Finquero De La CIA. ISBN-10: 9977965013 ISBN-13: 978-9977965017.
 * Honey, Martha, Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Tony Avirgan (1989). Brought to Light. Eclipse Books. ISBN: 091303567X ISBN-10: 0-913035-67-X.
 * Honey, Martha (1988). La Penca On Trial In Costa Rica: The CIA vs. the Press. San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Editorial Porvenir. ISBN-10: 9977944164 ISBN-13: 978-9977944166.
 * Honey, Martha, Tony Avirgan, and Daniel Sheehan (1988).  Inside the shadow government: Declaration of plaintiffs' counsel, filed by the Christic Institute, U.S. District Court, Miami, Florida, March 31, 1988. The Institute. ASIN: B00071G8VW.
 * Honey, Martha, (1986). La Penca: Report of an investigation. Christic Institute. ASIN: B000719KJE.
 * Honey, Martha and Avirgan, Tony (1983). War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin. Lawrence Hill & Co. ISBN-10: 0882081365 ISBN-13: 978-0882081366.