Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar

September 21, 2017
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Myanmar coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism

While the world observes the troubles between the Rohingya and their neigh­bours in Myan­mar, the Uni­on’s tour­ism min­istry and the Myan­mar Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (MRTI) are work­ing with UNICEF to pro­mote Child Safe Tour­ism. Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Hotels and Tour­ism (MoHT), since July 31: “… sur­vey­ing and hold­ing aware­ness cam­paigns are being under­taken in […]

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The keys to managing growth and sustainable tourism governance

and September 20, 2017

Dr Noel Scott was the lead author of the UNWTO special report on managing growth and sustainable tourism governance in Asia and the Pacific.

A spe­cial report on Man­aging Growth and Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Gov­ernance in Asia and the Pacific was launched by the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) at its 22nd Gen­er­al Assembly in Cheng­du, China last week. For this “GT” Insight, Dav­id Gill­banks of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog cor­res­pon­ded with the lead author of the report Dr Noel […]

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“Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention

September 16, 2017

unwto global code tourism ethics cover cr

The mem­ber states of the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) have approved the UNWTO Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Tour­ism Eth­ics. This is based on the Glob­al Code of Eth­ics for Tour­ism (PDF 787 KB) and is, accord­ing to a UNWTO press release upon which this post is based, the first inter­na­tion­al con­ven­tion ini­ti­ated by the UNWTO. […]

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Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses

September 14, 2017

Wildlife ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers

Most wild­life eco­tour­ists in the Pantanal region of South Amer­ica say they are will­ing to com­pensate cattle ranch­ers for live­stock taken by wild jag­uars. This is accord­ing to a new study, “The num­bers of the beast: Valu­ation of jag­uar (Pan­thera onca) tour­ism and cattle depred­a­tion in the Brazili­an Pantanal”, by Fernando R. Tor­tato, Thi­ago J. Izzo, […]

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Palau tackles over-tourism with responsible tourism

September 12, 2017

Palau tackles over-tourism via responsible tourism and sustainable tourism. Palau. By LuxTonnerre (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia.

The UNWTO & WTM Min­is­ters’ Sum­mit will debate over-tour­ism, Novem­ber 7, at WTM Lon­don 2017. While seni­or fig­ures pre­pare their talk­ing points, the Microne­sian archipelago of Palau is mak­ing moves now to com­bat the phe­nomen­on. Accord­ing to Repub­lic of Palau Pres­id­ent Tommy E Remen­gasau, Jr, in his intro­duct­ory mes­sage for the Palau Respons­ible Tour­ism Policy […]

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COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

September 8, 2017

COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

The Com­mon Mar­ket for East­ern & South­ern Africa (COMESA) launched The COMESA Tour­ism & Wild­life Her­it­age Hand­book; Single Mar­ket – Count­less des­tin­a­tions at the 41st World Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Kigali, Rwanda. The hand­book is part of the COMESA Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Stra­tegic Frame­work, which has been recog­nised by mem­ber states as a mod­el to […]

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