Would Gorkhaland tourism be better for the Gorkhas?

June 27, 2017

Would Gorkhaland tourism benefit from independence? Pro-Gorkhaland independence posters, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. By Adam Jones via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Tour­ism in the Dar­jeel­ing Hills and Dooars has the poten­tial to thrive under a “Gorkha­land” state admin­is­tra­tion, accord­ing to an art­icle by Jaideep Mazum­dar for Swa­ra­jya. These Indi­an ter­rit­or­ies, which are cur­rently under West Bengal state admin­is­tra­tion, are “richly endowed” with nat­ur­al beauty and bio­lo­gic­al diversity. With some con­trol over tour­ism devel­op­ment plan­ning and market […]

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Airport carbon dioxide emissions cut by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/16: ACI

June 26, 2017

ACI Director General Angela Gittens says airport carbon emissions were reduced by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/2016. Image source: 'Airport World'

Air­ports Coun­cil Inter­na­tion­al (ACI)‘s Air­port Car­bon Accred­it­a­tion pro­gramme reduced car­bon diox­ide emis­sions by more than 200,000 tonnes in the report­ing year end­ing June 2016, accord­ing to ACI Dir­ect­or Gen­er­al Angela Git­tens. The pro­gramme is now in its eighth year with 182 accred­ited air­ports in 54 coun­tries. Writ­ing for Air­port World, Ms Git­tens asser­ted that ACI’s […]

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Was it time to act on measuring sustainable tourism a decade ago?

June 24, 2017

Opening of the 6th International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism

A high-level mul­ti­lat­er­al con­fer­ence under the aus­pices of the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) has pro­duced a declar­a­tion recog­nising the need to do some­thing about meas­ur­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism (MST); determ­in­ing tourism’s true con­tri­bu­tion to the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The “Manila Call for Action on Meas­ur­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism” says tour­ism min­is­ters, stat­ist­ic­al chiefs, and envir­on­ment­al officials […]

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APEC tourism ministers to “ensure sustainable and inclusive growth”

June 21, 2017

APEC tourism minister adopted a statement on sustainable tourism

The second of four pri­or­ity areas out­lined in a state­ment adop­ted by Asia-Pacific Eco­nom­ic Cooper­a­tion (APEC) tour­ism min­is­ters, June 19, is: “Ensure sus­tain­able and inclus­ive growth in the travel and tour­ism sec­tor by encour­aging socially and cul­tur­ally respons­ible tour­ism”. Adop­ted at the APEC High Level Policy Dia­logue on Sus­tain­able Tour­ism held in Quang Ninh province, […]

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Ecotourism & wildlife: To feed or not to feed?

June 18, 2017

1024px Black bear with salmon

A 71-year-old New Hamp­shire, USA artist wants to devel­op an “eco­tour­ism” product based on feed­ing bears and moose, accord­ing to an art­icle in the Sen­tinel Source. Richard Whitney’s concept is simple: Find a remote, wooded area, cre­ate a con­trolled feed­ing site to attract wild­life and charge vis­it­ors to watch. Whit­ney and his part­ner were them­selves charged […]

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Ownership, inclusion key to community-based tourism

June 17, 2017
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By Christopher Michel (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/8273723151) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The most import­ant factors influ­en­cing the suc­cess of com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) pro­jects in Myan­mar are “com­munity organ­isa­tion and man­age­ment sup­port” fol­lowed by “tour­ism product devel­op­ment accord­ing to mar­ket needs”. The main reas­ons for fail­ure are “top-down approach by devel­op­ment part­ner and/or private sec­tor part­ner in which the needs and ideas of the com­munity are not taken […]

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