Alternative Tourism Group and Study Center (ATG) is a Palestinian NGO based in Beit Sahour (Bethlehem) that specialises in tours and pilgrimages that include critical examinations of the history, culture, and politics of the Holy Land.
ATG was established in 1995 by the late Jamal Salameh, Majed Nassar, Rifat Odeh Kassis, Ghassan Andoni and Elias Rishmawi, and operates according to the tenets of fair trade and justice tourism — that is, tourism that holds as its central goals the creation of economic opportunities for the local community, positive cultural exchange between guest and host through one-on-one interaction, the protection of the environment, and political/historical education.
Through these methods, ATG seeks to promote a positive image of Palestine and its people and to contribute to the establishment of a durable peace in the area.
[1] ATG published “Palestine & Palestinians”,[2] the first comprehensive Palestinian guidebook to Palestine, including the occupied territories, Jerusalem, the 1948 territories and the Syrian Golan Heights.
[citation needed] ATG is Member of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO).