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The unbearable lightness of "we should travel less" calls
Mind-boggling and increasingly annoying, especially just after a global pandemic confinement, repeated, apolitical (i.e. conservative) calls for "less travel", and that "We", an undefined "We" as if we were all equal, living in a magnificent, peaceful...
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Sri Lanka: Tree Tops Jungle Lodge wins Responsible Tourism Award
a diverse group of tourism operators from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India. Wild Asia organized various learning seminars attended by pioneers of Asian nature conservation and leaders in ecotourism...
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Dominica: First ever Dominica International EcoFest a resounding success
heard enlightening presentations from a massive range of Dominica experts and stakeholders, as well as representatives from India and McGill University in Canada on BioGas, Barbados on Biodiesel, and Greece from Ecoclub, the international ecotourism...
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New study predicts annual coral bleaching on all of the world's coral reefs due to climate change
5 January 2017 (UNEP) - New climate model projections of the world's coral reefs reveal which reefs will be hit first by annual coral bleaching, an event that poses the gravest threat to one of the Earth's most important ecosystems. These...
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ECOCLUB.com News - June 2010
Members Only - Link New Ecolodge Members: Zen Namkhan Resort (Laos) Wilson Hostel Warzawa (Poland) West Wind Homez (Kerala, India) Mambo View Point (Tanzania) Articles A Practical Solar Energy Guide for Ecolodges by Herman Erdtsieck Ecotourism in Papua:...
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ECOCLUB.com Awards 2010: Project D - Red Panda Network, Nepal
has just initiated tourism and not wide circulated so the project is necessary. The visitors that had visited were from India, Hong Kong, U.S. and domestic. Community Forest is that patch of nationalforest handed over to the nearby community after...
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Samhitakasha, South Africa - ECOCLUB.com Rating
to keep them away, and no problems have been reported by guests as yet. Ants are repelled with use of tumeric lines as in India, other scavengers are kept away by clean habits in kitchen etc! 3k. Energy Sources, Use & Saving Measures: Solar water heater...
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Interview: Raoul Bianchi, Principal Lecturer in Tourism & Leisure, University of East London
in tourism services with an emphasis on sustainability and poverty alleviation. However, as evidence from places such as India demonstrate, the rapid liberalization of domestic tourism sectors, for the purposes of 'improving competitiveness', may lead...
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Interview: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia
the way you think! A Wikileaks for tourism is a great idea. We in fact do have grassroots organizations such as Equations in India working to expose the human rights issues in tourism. However, the question is: are we interested in accessing the...
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Fmr Guyana President Jagdeo to keynote 13th Annual Caribbean Conference, 15-18 April, Guyana
was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University in New Delhi, India. He was presented with the honour by Dr. R.K Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC)...
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Review of Tourism, Climate Change and Sustainability
Tourism, Climate Change & Sustainability Edited by Maharaj Vijay Reddy and Keith Wilkes. Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-84971-422-8, September 2012 - 284 pages This volume, edited by Bournemouth University’s Maharaj Vijay Reddy and Keith Wilkes, was written in...
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Review of Peace Through Tourism
Peace Through Tourism - Promoting human security through international citizenship Edited by Lynda-ann Blanchard and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-82463-7, April 2013 – 276 pages There are some fundamental contradictions in the...
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Converting Antarctica Tourists to Conservation Ambassadors
countries know can afford not to break the environment to the extent that they did 30-4-50 years ago, some countries, China, India don't have that luxury yet and maybe don't care, but I think ultimately, at the end of the day, we got to stop or there's...
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Tackling Tourism Waste in Phong Nha Village, Vietnam
plenty of beaches along the Vietnamese coast. The same is apparent in many other popular tourism destinations such as Goa, India, and Bali, Indonesia. The manual press machine limits itself to building blocks, however reusing non-recycled waste in...
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Protected Area Tourism and Regional Economic Impact - The Case of Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
Luger, K (editors): Sustainability in mountain tourism perspective forthe Himalayan countries, 47-69. Book faith New Delhi/ India and Studienverlag Innsbruck/Vienna. Shrestha, B. 1996. Park people conflict around the Royal Chitwan National Park. Journal...
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New international "Tourism Advocacy and Action Forum" aims to promote human rights in Tourism
Rodrigo Ruiz Rubio (Programa Vichama, Peru) and Ranjan Solomon (Alternatives-Badayl-Centre for Responsible Tourism Goa, India). TAAF also issued its first statement which you may find below: " TOURISM ADVOCACY AND ACTION FORUM - ISTANBUL STATEMENT -...
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Nepal: Progress in Tiger Conservation and Community Forestry in Chitwan National Park
flock of the endangered lesser adjutant stork flies over the historic Narayani River, a left bank tributary of the Ganges in India, this correspondent's 65-year-old forest guide Jiyana Mahato asks for complete silence: this is the time of day when wild...
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Tourism pressures on the old town of Lijiang, Yunnan, China
About the Author A long time student of Eurasian history, cultures and languages and a committed traveller of various destinations along this vast continent. Worked for a few years in the field of independent tourism and came to acknowledge the...
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Interview: Agata Zborowska, Manager, Tourism for Tomorrow Awards
" I personally do not think that you can have sustainability without equality " Agata Zborowska has over 10 years’ experience in variety of roles in Travel & Tourism sector and has worked with both small and large organisations in the UK and...
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Book Review: "Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet"
Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet. Environmental, Business and Policy Solutions. Author: Megan Epler Wood Routledge, ISBN 978-1-138-21761-4, January 2017, Hardback/Paperback/E-book, 327 pages. If you were elected to public office and suddenly...
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Interview: Jeremy Smith, Editor, Travindy
"Most travel writing is really just PR... If a tourism board flies a newspaper journalist out to a destination, puts them up in a couple of hotels, shows them the sights, they expect a favourable piece in return. So does the newspaper, who wants the...
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Book Review: "Transforming Travel - Realising the potential of sustainable tourism"
"Transforming Travel - Realising the potential of sustainable tourism" Author: Jeremy Smith CABI, ISBN 978-1-786-39419-4, Paperback, 124 pages, December 2017 A detailed survey of good practices in the hotel and some other sub-sectors of the Travel...
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The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed
In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence levels of consumption (and this June saw us at 7.6 billion). Achieving ‘high life satisfaction’ for...
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15th UNWTO Awards to recognize innovation and sustainability in Tourism, Applications Open
Madrid, Spain, 14 August 2018 – Promoting innovation, job creation and sustainability are key considerations for the 15th World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Awards. UNWTO invites submissions until 31 October 2018. The UNWTO Awards recognise the...
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Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development: What About the People?
social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from14 countries around the world – including India, the USA, South Africa, Indonesia, the UK and New Zealand – focusing on initiatives for housing, public space and transport...
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WTTC Tourism for Tomorrow Awards 2019 applications are now open
4 September 2019 (London): Today, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) calls on Travel & Tourism organisations to showcase their achievements by entering in the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards 2019. Since the beginning of the Tourism for Tomorrow...
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Interview: Rika Jean-François, CSR Commissioner, ITB Berlin
a jury member at several global responsible tourism contests. At ITB, Ms Jean-François is also heading business relations in India and the Medical Tourism segment and has the overall responsibility for ITB’s official Partner Country program. We...
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United Nations recognises 120 Tree Cities of the World
including Toronto, Canada; New York, USA; Guadalajara, Mexico; Birmingham, United Kingdom; Campo Grande, Brazil; Hyderabad, India; and Kampala, Uganda. The complete list of recognised communities is available here. To earn this recognition, each of...
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GSTC2023 Conference in Antalya, Türkiye, Concluded with 350 delegates from 51 countries
The #GSTC2023 Global Sustainable Tourism Conference that took place on May 9th-12th in Antalya, Türkiye, brought together 350 delegates from 51 countries, along with hundreds of viewers that watched the live broadcasting of the conference. The...
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Eco Luminaries™: Federica Bosco, Project Officer, Etifor, Italy
Tourism is sustainable when it puts at the center the needs of the local communities and the environment. This is not something to aspire to but that should already be implemented in order to assure the future of travel. Federica BoscoFederica Bosco...
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Ceasefire in Gaza: too good to last?
and Belt expansion plans, the Gaza war now disrupts/postpones a China-Saudi warming. There are more tectonic shifts at play. India under Modi has moved further away from Russia, and the Palestinians, and moved ever closer to the US and Israel. In theory...
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Alevromoutzouroma, the literally colourful feast of Galaxidi
Literally translating to flour-smudging, Alevromoutzouroma is a traditional flour throwing festival taking place every Clean Monday (the Monday marking the beginning of Lent) in the historic port of Galaxidi (Map) Central Greece. Galaxidi was an...
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Voting now open for the 4th ECOCLUB.com Earth Day Photo Essay Competition
environmental crisis on Ecotourism. The candidates submitted photo essays from Ecuador, Cambodia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Cuba, India, Indonesia and Thailand which illustrates how Ecotourism practitioners approach the current global economic crisis and shed...
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New World Bank Report Explores Innovative Wildlife Tourism Partnerships
Washington D.C. (February 2018): Nature-based tourism (NBT), if managed sustainably, is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and diversify their economies while protecting their biodiversity, and contributing to many sustainable development...
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Marriott workers around the world demand global measures to combat sexual harassment
On June 27, IUF members at Marriott hotels around the world demonstrated in support of the call for concrete action by the world's largest hotel group to protect workers from the endemic sexual harassment which afflicts hospitality workers.
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Chronicling Auroville
a monthly periodical, has been documenting and commenting upon events in the international community of Auroville, south India, for people all over the world. Auroville is not an easy place to understand as it has so many dimensions. Founded in 1968...
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