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Working undercover in bars and brothels across Southeast Asia to combat child sex tourism and slavery, campaigner Kevin Campbell has posed many times as a tourist looking to buy sex with a girl. But these days, Campbell, who works for the anti-trafficking group The Exodus Road, says it is far less common to see young girls […]
Read More Child sex tourism goes suburban, rural, online
A socio-economic survey methodology that recently estimated the direct economic contribution of shark tourism in Australia may be a useful tool for estimating the value of wildlife tourism and ecotourism in other destinations. For destinations keen to understand more about the economic value of their own ecotourism and wildlife tourism products, the methodology employed by […]
Read More Australian shark tourism valuation method may be useful elsewhere
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 […]
Read More Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar
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. […]
Read More “Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention
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, […]
Read More Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses
An Afghan travel entrepreneur is hoping to inspire a new generation of women by using her agency to help female students secure places at universities in Turkey, Russia and Europe and then break into male-dominated careers. Marjana Sadi (pictured above), 21, set up Banoo Travel Agency in a market in central Kabul nearly a year […]
Read More Afghan travel agent helps women study abroad