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Launching the Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter


Strong Earth Awards 2024

SUNx Malta and Les Roches, togeth­er with The Earth Charter Insti­tute, the China Biod­iversity Con­ser­va­tion and Green Devel­op­ment Found­a­tion (CBCGDF), and the European Centre for Peace and Devel­op­ment (ECPD), have announced the launch of the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  What are the Strong Earth Awards? The Strong Earth Awards recog­nise stu­dents with a pas­sion for […]

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CABI Tourism Cases: Animals and tourism


CABI Tourism Cases: Animals and tourism. Image by vkhima (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dog-travel-india-trip-heritage-4111651/

CABI Tour­ism Cases, a “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner, pub­lishes peer-reviewed case stud­ies on travel & tourism’s inter­ac­tions with the world from just about every angle … includ­ing (non-human) anim­als and tour­ism.  This is the first in a new series of posts in which CABI shares brief sum­mar­ies of its most recent tour­ism-related case stud­ies and books […]

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Enhancing equitable climate adaptation strategies through responsible tourism


Enhancing equitable climate adaptation strategies through responsible tourism ... Base image by staboslaw via Pixabay

Kev­in Phun of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore hosts the Respons­ible Tour­ism pod­cast, which explores the many dimen­sions of respons­ible tour­ism. Mr Phun sum­mar­ises his thoughts about the chal­lenges and oppor­tun­it­ies around equit­able cli­mate adaptation.

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Partnerships: Good partners are like family at Red Rocks Initiatives Rwanda


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At Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ive for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment in Rwanda we are always open to new part­ner­ships.  We recog­nise that good part­ners helped us take our very first steps. And good part­ners have helped us get to where we are now. They, and new part­ners, will be val­ued stake­hold­ers in our ongo­ing jour­ney. More than stakeholders, […]

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SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’


SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

Bali, Indone­sia, Octo­ber 2, 2023: In the icon­ic glob­al tour­ism centre of Bali, SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — announced that it was launch­ing a new social enter­prise for Cli­mate Friendly Trav­el­lers, the Cli­mate Friendly Travel Club. Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx, announced this dur­ing the World Tour­ism Net­work (WTN)’s TIME Sum­mit with the form­al sig­na­ture of an SDG […]

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EXO Foundation’s first Sustainability Awards support transformative tourism projects in Asia


EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards 2923

The EXO Found­a­tion, a non-profit organ­isa­tion sup­port­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism ini­ti­at­ives, held its first Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards cere­mony yes­ter­day (Septem­ber 28) on Zoom.  Prizes totalling US$40,000 in value were awar­ded to win­ners and run­­n­ers-up. The goal of the awards was to identi­fy, sup­port and pro­mote exem­plary pro­jects that seek to innov­ate sus­tain­ab­il­ity in Asia.  Alex­an­dra Michat, Chief Pur­pose Officer […]

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