Sustainable tourism is not working: academic

May 10, 2017

Sustainable tourism? Tourists on the Ponte della Paglia bridge, Venice.

A con­trib­ut­or to The Con­ver­sa­tion has sug­ges­ted that sus­tain­able tour­ism is not work­ing and that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion’s (UNW­TO’s) “2017 Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment” is more rhet­or­ic than real­ity. Freya Hig­­gins-Des­­bio­lles, Seni­or Lec­turer in Tour­ism, Uni­ver­sity of South Aus­tralia, asserts that “eco­nom­ic growth trumps envir­on­ment­al lim­its, so sus­tain­ab­il­ity remains […]

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Cuba seminar to focus on sustainable ecotourism

May 10, 2017

Cuba ecotourism

Cuba is increas­ingly focused on a viable and sus­tain­able eco­tour­ism mod­el based on envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion and con­ser­va­tion, accord­ing to Pren­sa Lat­ina. “Nature, adven­ture and rur­al tour­ism, are mod­al­it­ies that make a con­sid­er­able con­tri­bu­tion to the travel industry … “Cuba has a com­pre­hens­ive Nation­al Sys­tem of Pro­tec­ted Areas (SNAP) that con­trol tour­ism devel­op­ments in import­ant nation­al and […]

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Philippines’ real estate should back sustainable tourism: Teo

May 8, 2017

Philippines Tourism Secretary Wanda Corazon T Teo

Prop­erty developers and realtors should become advoc­ates of a sus­tain­able, inclus­ive and cli­mate-resi­li­ent tour­ism industry, accord­ing to Phil­ip­pines Tour­ism Sec­ret­ary Wanda Corazon T Teo speak­ing at a real estate industry awards event in Makati last week. The United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) defines sus­tain­able tour­ism as “tour­ism that takes full account of its cur­rent and future […]

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