As the first international organisation ever, NFI has been accepted as member of the TEN network in May 2009. TEN stands for Third World Tourism Ecumenical European Net and is a network of NGOs engaged in tourism concerns from eight european countries. Purpose is the exchange of experience and common projects and campaigns.

• raise consciousness and awareness on the effects of tourism to the people in the receiving developing countries. Those effects should be researched and discussed from a development point of view. Similar problems within European tourism may also be considered in the endeavour towards more just societies.
• to support all attitudes which avoid the "touristic consumption" of other peoples, countries and cultures or which help to create equal relations among peoples of different countries.
• to encourage all means which increase the positive aspects within tourism and to fight all its negative aspects: That means tourism has to be measured by the criteria of contributing to building just, participatory and sustainable societies. TEN should look for cooperation with the tourism industry and with partners at all levels within the receiving countries.