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Why build well-being into destination resilience and tourism recovery?

and December 15, 2020

Why build well being into destination resilience and recovery

Much has been writ­ten about includ­ing host com­munit­ies in des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment and tour­ism devel­op­ment decision-mak­ing, but how would one go about meas­ur­ing con­tent­ment, well-being, or even hap­pi­ness, on an ongo­ing basis? In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Paul Rogers of “GT” Insight Part­ner Plan­et Hap­pi­ness presents a solu­tion.  Pri­or to the onset of the COVID-19 global […]

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Khiri Travel to go carbon-neutral from January 2021

December 7, 2020

Little Home at Phu Langka National Park in Phayao Province, Thailand. Image supplied by Khiri Travel.

Khiri Travel is intro­du­cing com­pre­hens­ive off­set­ting pro­gram with Cli­mate­Care.  The DMC is also offer­ing new low emis­sions ‘slow travel’ hol­i­day options. Asi­an DMC Khiri Travel is on its way to becom­ing fully car­bon neut­ral.  As part of its approach to take respons­ib­il­ity for its impact on the envir­on­ment, Khiri Travel has partnered with cli­mate and […]

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Climate Friendly Travel Registry gains 200 from Thompson Okanagan, Canada

November 28, 2020

Lake Kelowna, Okanagan, BC, Canada. Image (CC0) via Needpix. https://www.needpix.com/photo/download/661152/okanagan-bc-lake-kelowna-free-pictures-free-photos-free-images-royalty-free-free-illustrations

Mes­sage from Dr Hans Friederich, regis­trar of the SUNx Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry. SUNx is a “GT” Part­ner. Dur­ing the Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA) Sum­mit, the news was shared that 200 tour­ism SMEs from this Cana­dian Region will register their car­bon reduc­tion and sus­tain­ab­il­ity ambi­tions on the SUNx Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) […]

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Mahouts matter: The Elephant Conservation Center’s essential workers

and November 26, 2020

ECC's male elephant mahout team. Image by Anabel Lopez-Perez.

Intro­duct­ory note by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund, Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al: The concept of ‘essen­tial work­ers’ has been front and centre since the COVID-19 vir­us struck our world earli­er this year. Doc­tors, nurses, para­med­ics, as well as teach­ers, gro­cery store work­ers, trans­port­a­tion staff and so many oth­ers have been work­ing tire­lessly to sup­port essen­tial human needs […]

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Wake UP! to the transformative power of partnership & enterprise in Uganda

and November 19, 2020

Wake up to the transformative power of enterprise in Uganda

Tan­ner C Knorr of Second Look World­wide talks with Iain Pat­ton of Uganda Part­ner­ship (UP!) about trans­form­a­tion­al tours. Tan­ner: Tell us about Uganda Part­ner­ship.  Iain: Uganda Part­ner­ship is a win-win approach to trav­el­ling off the beaten track in Africa and fund­ing busi­ness solu­tions to the poverty in the com­munit­ies we meet. At Uganda Part­ner­ship, or UP! for […]

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Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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