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Elephants, otters return to Cardamom Tented Camp’s conservation area in Cambodia

December 7, 2021

Cardamom Tented Camp ecolodge in Cambodia reports success in nature conservation with otters and elephants coming back to its conservation area.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has wit­nessed the return of a small herd of ele­phants to its con­ser­va­tion area, after an absence of five years. A large group of smooth-coated otters are back too. Forest rangers dis­covered and pho­to­graphed ele­phant foot­prints and drop­pings inside the 18,000-hectare forest con­ces­sion, which the camp pro­tects, with help from Wildlife […]

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Zambia’s untapped tourism potential & its prospects for a green economy

November 23, 2021
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Sunset over the Luangwa River, a tributary of the Zambezi. Photo by Ian McGrory (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/62CtkV44DuY Zambia wordmark by syafrani_jambe (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/state-international-flag-zambia-2732088/

Zim­b­ab­wean schol­ar Sham­iso Nyajeka makes a strong pitch for the devel­op­ment of a respons­ible, sus­tain­able, and eco­­nom­ic­ally-inclus­ive travel & tour­ism industry in Zam­bia, where deep poverty per­sists des­pite a luc­rat­ive min­ing tra­di­tion.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Ms Nyajeka to write a “GT” Insight.] Nestled at the inter­sec­tion of cent­ral, east­ern, and […]

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Science, mahout traditions may help save Asian elephants from extinction in Laos

and November 16, 2021

Elephant family crossing a river. Captive breeding technology and mahout knowledge may help save Asian elephants in Laos. Image supplied by Anabel Lopez Perez.

Asi­an ele­phants are at risk of extinc­tion in the wild and in cap­tiv­ity. That they are not repla­cing their num­bers in cap­tiv­ity may come as a sur­prise to many. This is why con­­ser­­va­­tion-ori­en­ted cap­tive breed­ing pro­grams are import­ant to the spe­cies. Wild­life bio­lo­gist Ana­bel Lopez Perez of Laos’ Ele­phant Con­ser­va­tion Cen­ter and Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of […]

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STREETS International: ‘Sustainable tourism at its best’

October 27, 2021

STREETS Trainees in Hoi An, Vietnam

STREETS Inter­na­tion­al is a social enter­prise with a mis­sion to cre­ate a bet­ter future for dis­ad­vant­aged youth in Viet­nam via hos­pit­al­ity train­ing. If you travel to the lovely UNESCO World Her­it­age town of Hoi An, Viet­nam be sure to stroll by Le Loi Street to vis­it STREETS Res­taur­ant Café, and take part in its Oodles […]

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‘Real-life tourism’: The essence of regenerative tourism

October 19, 2021

Sharing culture. Regenerative 'real-life' tourism at Kohutapu Lodge, NZ.

Bron­wyn Hutchis­on would like to see more examples of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism in prac­tice. In her second “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Hutchis­on sheds light on a fam­ily-run lodge and tour oper­a­tion in New Zea­l­and whose regen­er­at­ive prac­tices, it is claimed, are rooted in Māori beliefs and cus­toms. Regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is evolving as the new catch-cry for […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp earns global accolade for its sustainability story

October 6, 2021

Cardamom Tented Camp staff team photo

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp eco­lodge in Cam­bod­ia is one of Green Des­tin­a­tions’ 2021 Top 100 Des­tin­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Stor­ies. The announce­ment was made Octo­ber 5 dur­ing the online annu­al con­fer­ence of Green Des­tin­a­tions, a non-profit organ­isa­tion for sus­tain­able tour­ism based in The Neth­er­lands. The annu­al pro­gramme has been in exist­ence since 2014. Car­damom Ten­ted Camp was chosen by the […]

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