A PM appointed IY2017 ambassador … oh, and food fish are going extinct

June 13, 2017

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Head­lining a UNWTO press release dated June 12 is the fact that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) appoin­ted the Prime Min­is­ter of Sam­oa, Tuilae­pa Sailele Malielegaoi, as one of nine (9) Spe­cial Ambas­sad­ors of the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment 2017. The cere­mony took place in New York on June 7 […]

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Parayil: Kerala’s chief responsible tourism storyteller?

June 11, 2017

Gopinath Pariyal: The chief responsible tourism storyteller of Kerala?

A pion­eer of respons­ible tour­ism in Ker­ala, India, Gop­inath Paray­il thinks the act of being respons­ible is applic­able to all forms of tour­ism and that it is the only sus­tain­able way for­ward. Parayil’s respons­ible tour­ism jour­ney began in 2003 while sub­mer­ging the ashes of his fath­er in the Bhara­ta­puzha River. He real­ised that the river […]

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Mystical inspiration, permaculture & ecotourism in Peru

June 10, 2017

Mystical inspiration, permaculture, & ecotourism in Peru. Source. Ecoaldeas Peru Facebook page

A banker with a “mys­tic vis­ion” has built a social busi­ness that has helped a rur­al com­munity in Peru lever­age eco­tour­ism, sus­tain­able farm­ing, and non-tim­ber forest products to sus­tain­ably man­age its resources, accord­ing to an art­icle in Eco­sys­tem Mar­ket­place. San Roque de Cum­baza (San Roque) is a town in the San Martín region of Peru, a 45-minute drive […]

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Cruise industry must help solve over-tourism

June 8, 2017

When this ship comes to call it dominates the landscape. Source: KarinKarin / Pixabay

Author­it­ies in uber-pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tions, such as Venice and Bar­celona, often assert that the eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of mass tour­ism dwarfs the dis­rup­tion caused to pub­lic ser­vices and res­id­ents. How­ever, res­id­ents with no ves­ted interest in the travel & tour­ism industry reg­u­larly and vehe­mently dis­agree. What these places are exper­i­en­cing is “over-tour­ism”, a term an art­icle by […]

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Do all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

June 8, 2017
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Do all-you-can-eat all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

The propensity for all-inclus­ive tour­ism pack­ages to lay on all-you-can-eat feasts at every meal may be con­trib­ut­ing to obesity among pop­u­la­tions who can afford such trips, accord­ing to Pro­fess­or Erdogan Koc of Bandirma Onyedi Eylul Uni­ver­sity in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight con­tri­bu­tion.  If Prof Koc’s sus­pi­cions are true, what can the industry real­ist­ic­ally do to […]

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Kenya tourist lodge shuts after land invasions, wildlife killings

June 7, 2017

Elephants fight in the Laikipia region of Kenya where Sosian lodge is located: Source: Sosian

A lodge owned by a murdered Brit­ish ranch­er in Kenya’s north­ern Laikipia region announced its clos­ure on Monday (June 5). This comes after the ranch prop­erty had been over­run by her­ders for months and ahead of August polls in which some politi­cians have made land reform a cam­paign issue. Tristan Voor­spuy, a Brit­ish army vet­er­an, was shot […]

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