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Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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Associations to cooperate in cultural heritage preservation, tourism training

July 7, 2020

Chris Flynn of WTACH; Philippe Francois of AMFORHT

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH): Two glob­al tour­ism asso­ci­ations are join­ing forces to dove­tail key object­ives in their fields of cul­tur­al her­it­age pro­tec­tion and voca­tion­al train­ing. A new part­ner­ship agree­ment between the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) and the World Association […]

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Keeping elephants healthy under the cloud of COVID-19

and June 27, 2020

Dr Wachiraporn Toonrongchang and team at at a private camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image supplied by Dr Nissa Mututanont of the GTAEF Foundation.

News from the field — from the Ele­phant Health­care Emer­gency Life­line Fund in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­l­and — by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al. What’s the say­ing? An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure? For Thailand’s tour­ism ele­phants con­fined to lock-down mode — along with the facil­it­ies and people who care for them — the need for routine and […]

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Elephant health experts seek emergency funds for unemployed tourism elephants

and May 8, 2020

Dr Sarisa Klinhom (L) & Dr Tittaya Janyamethakul (R) attend to Mae Noi in Thailand. Image supplied by author.

The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in Thai­l­and and else­where are in deep trouble. Hol­lis Bur­b­ank­-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al tells us why that’s the case and how we can help. COVID-19 has suddenly […]

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Leveraging your travel budget: A socially-responsible Siem Reap itinerary

August 29, 2018

If you are looking to visit the temples or interested in more rural tourism in Cambodia, consider a tour with Lavender Jeep Siem Reap

Siem Reap, Cam­bod­ia is an ever-grow­ing travel des­tin­a­tion. After years of gen­o­cide fol­lowed by 20 years of instabil­ity and civil war, the coun­try has sta­bil­ized and has become a darling of the ASEAN region, with a fast-grow­ing eco­nomy, bet­ter infra­struc­ture, and an over­all improve­ment in the human devel­op­ment index and qual­ity of life. The tour­ism economy […]

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