Is orphanage tourism a form of modern slavery?

July 21, 2017

Orphanage tourism and slavery. Tonle Sap, Siem Reap, Cambodia: A little girl making money for her family by posing with a snake in a water village of Tonle Sap Lake. Source: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tonle_Sap_Siem_Reap_Cambodia_Girl-begging-for-money-with-snake-01.jpg

Many travel & tour­ism pro­fes­sion­als are com­ing to believe that orphan­age tour­ism is at best a prob­lem­at­ic means to gen­er­ate income to sup­port chil­dren; at worst a form of mod­ern slavery. Slavery!? Mod­ern slavery is widely prac­ticed in the tour­ism sup­ply chain of devel­op­ing coun­tries, accord­ing to Aus­trali­an aca­dem­ics Joseph M. Cheer, Kent Goldsworthy, Leigh […]

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Cambodia vows to expand & improve community-based ecotourism services

July 20, 2017

Cambodia community-based ecotourism. Cambodia hard work in the rice paddies. Kevin Evans/AusAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACambodia_-_Working_in_the_rice_paddies_(10678730813).jpg

An inter-min­is­­ter­i­al work­ing group has vowed to expand and improve Cambodia’s com­munity-based eco­tour­ism ser­vices, reports Khmer Times. Tour­ism Min­is­ter Thong Khon said there are about 2,000 fish­ing and forest com­munit­ies nation­wide, but only a few are serving the tour­ism sec­tor. “Some areas are try­ing but are not run­ning prop­er tour­ism ser­vices, while we think there […]

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Meanwhile, a young couple promotes authentic experiences

July 19, 2017

overtourism Venice

UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new MoU about cit­ies last week to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. As the con­sult­ants and spin doc­tors of the world lick their lips — and insti­tu­tion­al book­shelves and cloud serv­ers standby to sup­ply stor­age for their expens­ive out­put — in Venice […]

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UNESCO, World Bank commit to urban development, culture, resilience

July 19, 2017

Urban cultural heritage and sustainable tourism. UNESCO, World Bank sign MoU

Recog­nising that cul­tur­al her­it­age and sus­tain­able tour­ism have become “key eco­nom­ic drivers for poverty reduc­tion and job cre­ation”, UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) last week to rein­vig­or­ate their joint com­mit­ment to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. Irina Bokova, Director-General […]

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Could climate change ground a third of aircraft?

July 17, 2017

Climate change airlines. Aerial view of Victorville Airport's aircraft boneyard, Victorville, California, USA. By Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2009-0727-CA-VictorvilleBoneyard.jpgax

More fre­quent heat waves due to glob­al warm­ing may ground up to a third of air­planes world­wide in dec­ades to come with some air­ports in New York and Dubai likely to be hard hit, a study showed on Thursday. Air­lines may increas­ingly be forced to cut their loads of pas­sen­gers, cargo or fuel in order […]

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Caribbean sustainable tourism efforts need to step up

July 13, 2017

Caribbean sustainable tourism. Sunset on Manzanillo beach, Margarita island, Venezuela. By Hector Darío, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASunset%40Manzanillo_Beach%2C_Margarita_Island%2C_Venezuela.JPG

The Carib­bean region’s sus­tain­able tour­ism efforts need to step up after mem­bers of the Asso­ci­ation of Carib­bean States (ACS) this week recog­nised 2017 as the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment and prom­ised to empower com­munity lead­ers to con­trib­ute pos­it­ively to loc­al and region­al tour­ist products. Accord­ing to a Tele­SUR report, ACS Sec­ret­ary-Gen­er­­al Dr […]

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