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Green Destinations has appointed Kevin Phun as lead independent expert for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Mr Phun will engage destinations, businesses, and experts in Green Destinations and Good Travel Alliance programs.
Read More Green Destinations appoints Kevin Phun lead expert for Southeast Asia, Pacific
You’re invited to the ceremony of the third edition of the EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards to take place on October 1!
This special event will honour outstanding organisations dedicated to promoting sustainable and responsible tourism, celebrating their achievements with well-deserved recognition and awards.
What to expect …
Read More You’re invited: Learn about best practices at the EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards
The travel & tourism industry can be expected to honour the human right to water, particularly in communities and destinations in which it operates.
Industry stakeholders need not see this as a burden, but rather as a compelling opportunity to meaningfully engage with local people on securing traditional water supplies, all the while developing more sustainable water and waste management systems of their own.
Nicolaus Sulistyo sheds light on IDEP Foundation’s Bali Water Protection (BWP) initiative; an EXO Foundation Sustainability Award winner.
Read More As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?
Can culture bundled into tourism products retain its ‘authentic’ credentials and deliver heritage value to host communities and visitors?
UK-based tourism educator Ashika Kalubadanage reckons so as she reconnects with her own ancestral heritage in Sri Lanka.
Thanks to “Good Tourism” Insight Partner Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions for inviting Dr Ashika Kalubadanage to write this “Good Tourism” Insight. (You can too.)
Read More Beyond sustainability: Regenerative hospitality helps restore Sri Lankan culture and heritage
Sometimes the first step is the hardest. This applies as much to the daunting task of obtaining sustainable tourism certification as anything else; especially for micro and small businesses that cannot afford to throw resources at a new department or employee to manage it. Kevin Phun offers his advice in this “Good Tourism” Insight. [You too […]
Read More Considering sustainable tourism certification? What to do first and what to look for
Can the local community-based business models of tourism social enterprises be replicated at global scale? Anishka Narula-Nielsen thinks so. It’s her first “Good Tourism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) The search for ‘good tourism’ Tourism is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It drives economies, creates jobs, and introduces us to […]
Read More A force for good: What can global travel & tourism learn from social enterprises?