Earth stands for European Alliance of Responsible Tourism and Hospitality, the first european network about sustainable tourism, as a partnership for development. Officially launched on October (16/10/08), during the important international fair of responsible tourism organized in Brussels by "Tourism autrement" , it aims at laying the foundations of a European Network for Responsible Tourism. Earth will deal with the organisation and structuring of responsible tourism networks all over the Europe and will represent a centre where competences and professionalism will help the creation of new initiatives and partnerships in the field of responsible tourism. Its main purpose is to promote the concept of responsible tourism and the principles stemming from it adopting several procedures, such as: Improving the quality of trips from an ethical viewpoint, through the adoption of good practices inspired by the principles of responsible tourism; Ensuring collaboration between responsible tourism operators and communities in the Southern part of the world and their organisations; Dialoguing with public European, national and local institutions in defining tourism development policies based on the principles of sustainable development and responsibility. Among other objectives, the event will promote a debate on the constitutive elements of the Network adopting the perspective of the fight against poverty. Several European associations will participate as well as partners coming from Brazil, Senegal, Egypt, China, Mongolia, Nepal.