IQ Resorts by Pangea World

The partnership between tourism and science may represent “the greatest
untapped reserve for funding an exposure to science, the greatest untapped
resource for revolutionizing the business success and quality of the hotel
industry, and thirdly, it is also the greatest untapped means of
elevating conservation to a powerful economic force.”
Dr. Hana Ayala, President & CEO, PANGEA WORLD
quoted in the journal Science (28 April 2006, p. 542)

IQ RESORTS® is the “signature” endeavor of the PANGEA WORLD corporation. This globally-scaled endeavor seeks to bring world-class hospitality and frontier science into a strategic union that effects formidable benefits for both and which can uniquely secure and validate prime reservoirs of the world’s natural and cultural legacies.

The IQ RESORTS® aspiration is founded upon the principles and credentials of PANGEA®’s TCR economic-development model (“Tourism for Conservation through Research”). This model’s core instrument of TCR Heritage Themes captures the dynamics and interrelationships among multiple pools of natural or cultural wonders in a manner that systematically augments the scientific, conservation, and economic (particularly tourism) importance of the interlinked heritage assets.

The TCR—inspired by the heritage bounty of Fiji and the South Pacific island region and developed into a pilot national project in the Republic of Panama—has been endorsed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), and other international agencies whose former executives are now among the members of the corporation’s core international team of PANGEA Fellows.