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I doubted a lot whether to share this, my opinions related not to COVID 19 but to the insights that COVID has brought us. 

I consider sustainable a tourism that is collaborative with the local community, environmentally friendly, and tourism that is inclusive and accessible. A more collaborative approach to with the local community, for example, make it easier to develop a strategy that helps you in normal circumstances. When extraordinary circumstances, like COVID 19 happen, you have a group of people and businesses that can try to support each other. 

A more environmentally friendly approach in the business, first of all, is better because it is good with the environment where we live, healthier, safer, even more beautiful. Also, in the medium and long term is helping the business with a lower fix cost. 

Another way the sustainable approach to tourism would have helped is through more inclusive tourism. Here let me clarify what a mean with the word inclusive. I refer not only to people with some kind of disabilities (physical or mental) that for many reasons can find it challenging to have a proper experience, but also not to target just who is already our type of guests. 

https://www.sustainabletourismworld.com/what-can-the-tourism-sector-learn-from-covid-19/

COVID-19 has hit tourism hard across the world. But whilst thankfully, many countries are seeing a slow return of travellers, here in Brasil we are still in tourism lockdown. The tourism industry closed down here in March and is set to continue to be this way for several more months. Morretes is finding life particularly difficult as over 40% of th...

Costarican Motmot

Costa Rica tourism industry, like in many other countries, has been impacted by the health measurements taken by the COVID-19. The country has been one of the few Latin American countries that had closed borders to international arrivals from the very beginning of the pandemic. This has had a great benefit for the citizens and resident's health sin...

Snowflakes are nature’s spectacular manifestation that symbolize exemplary climate conditions in the mountains of Chitral, Pakistan. It is a critical source to replenish underground water reservoirs that feed fresh springs and streams vital to sustain subsistent agriculture locally. When snowflakes whirl along the wind and its white sheet drapes over trees, land, v-shaped valleys, ledges and icy lakes, it offers real excitement for adventurists, trekkers, and nature lovers. In winter, snowdrift is also a sensational phenomenon and it would be an outwardly experience on snowy day to stand atop a windy crest with fog engulfing all around and feeling the caress of snowflakes on one’s face. At this point pleasant melancholy overcomes and creative artistic vision is refreshed when thick snow layer mutes the gurgling streams and morning fog rolls into the village. With thigh-deep snow, steep landscape and mountain gorges, district Chitral is dubbed as ‘the land of avalanches’. In February and March, the cloud of avalanches is seen in the mountain at a stone’s throw from the villages. A heavenly feeling is experienced when waterfowls fly past the screen of snowflakes beating it down. To sum it, snowflake is life. It is a pivot around which the entire life...

Marie & Stéphane, We Go GreenR Co-founders

More than 7 out of 10 travellers are willing to choose a more eco-friendly holiday by staying in nature-responsible accommodations. Green tourism activities as agrotourism, wine tourism or spiritual retreats are growing fast and becoming trendy in France. Moreover, the lockdown due to the current health crisis has pushed French tourists to apprecia...

Capacity building in Tehri Dam area.

-Tehri Dam is one of the highest dams in India and the highest high altitude dam in the world. It is a multipurpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the confluence of river Bhagirathi and Bhilangna in Tehri district of Garhwal Himalayas. Tehri Dam a reservoir spread in 42sqs kms with multipurpose use like for irrigation, municipal water supply...

A boat house sailing calmly through the Vembanad lake in Kerala.

KERALA: A land that never fails to leave a tourist speechless with its divine natural beauty, a destination that is a narrow strip of land located at the tip of India. Kerala is blessed with an array of different landscapes, such as quiet backwaters, pristine beaches, lush green forests, and many more natural attractions. Kerala is undoubtedly a fu...

Green Skills Workshop

Green Skills Development will be of high importance in the post-pandemic world. An innovative eight-day workshop took place at the Garhwal Regional Centre, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, in March last year entitled "Rural Technology Connect for Green Skill Development, Harnessing Bioresource Potential for Livelihood Enhancement and Natural Resource...

Annual Kankurang Festival at Janjanbureh along the Ninki Nanka Trail Source: Caroline Major

The Ninki Nanka Trail is a Gambian initiative that aims to pioneer a responsible approach tocommunity-based tourism in rural communities along The River Gambia, bringing together a widerange of stakeholders and communities. In is envisaged that the trail will benefit the localcommunity and wider destination in a number of ways such as creating addi...