Dr Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers is a tourism-for-development practitioner focused on policy and planning. With 20 years’ experience as a senior tourism advisor to national and local tourism organisations, he has worked in more than a dozen countries in South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and Australia. In recent years Dr Rogers has undertaken assignments for the World Bank, ADB, FAO, DfID, UNDP, UNWTO, USAID, ICIMOD, Luxembourg Development, Kew Gardens, Istituto Oikos, SNV (Netherlands), and WWF.
Dr Rogers co-founded Planet Happiness, a project of the Happiness Alliance. The Happiness Alliance is a US-registered not-for-profit that measures the happiness of residents living in World Heritage sites and beyond. Planet Happiness’ mission is to “focus the attention of all tourism stakeholders on the well-being agenda; and use tourism as a vehicle for development that demonstrably strengthens destination sustainability and the quality of life of host communities”.
Partner Message by Paul Rogers of “GT” Insight Partner Planet Happiness: As tourism stakeholders, if we truly value and believe in this life-changing industry, if we want to advocate its merits and ability to deliver the UN SDGs, we need to recognise the imperative to value and measure travel and tourism’s contribution to destination well-being. Travel and […]
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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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