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

September 29, 2023

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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From creative child to professional artist: How travel & tourism changed my life

September 28, 2023
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From creative child to professional artist: How travel & tourism changed my life. Credo Boris Harera pic by David Gillbanks

Travel in his nat­ive Rwanda is a source of artist­ic inspir­a­tion. Encoun­ters with tour­ists, and teach­ing chil­dren, is fuel for motiv­a­tion. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight by pas­sion­ate paint­er Credo Bor­is Harera who says: “Tour­ism changed my life.”

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SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

September 27, 2023

SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

Malta’s Min­is­ter for Tour­ism Hon. Clayton Bar­to­lo MP (pic­tured above), Malta Tour­ism Author­ity (MTA) CEO Carlo Mic­allef, and Malta Tour­ism Obser­vat­ory MD Leslie Vella have launched 50 SUNx Chapters in the world’s least developed coun­tries (LDCs). Today’s launch event at MTA, as well as Malta’s broad­er sup­port of SUNx, is a key com­pon­ent of the […]

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Emotions, storytelling, AI, & tech dominate culture & heritage tourism summit

September 27, 2023

Culture and heritage tourism discussed at WTACH Global Leaders Summit in Valencia, Spain

Emo­tion­al con­nec­tion, empathy, and nar­rat­ive storytelling in an AI age of declin­ing atten­tion spans dom­in­ated debate at the inaug­ur­al Glob­al Lead­ers Sum­mit of the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH). Her­it­age tour­ism experts grappled with com­plex issues of present­ing cul­ture and her­it­age to tour­ists at an inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ing of cul­ture tour­ism experts Septem­ber 24 – 25 […]

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Was this the European summer of terrible tourists? Give us a break, media!

September 26, 2023
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Was this the European summer of terrible tourists? Give us a break! Surrealist representation of a terrible tourist by DALL-E.

“Hordes” and “swarms” of tour­ists “forced through a well-oiled fun­nel” to “crawl” through our cher­ished spaces, releg­at­ing them to “back­drops” for selfies. Per­haps we should tell them to “go home” and “stay away” from our “per­fect places”. Is this the scape­goat­ing pro­pa­ganda of a para­noid author­it­ari­an state? No, it’s just media por­tray­als of ter­rible tourists. […]

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Is gorilla-friendly conservation compatible with local communities and tourism?

September 21, 2023

Gorilla-friendly policy and practice played a part in the arrival of 'Jijuka' ('enlightenment'), who was named during Rwanda's 19th Kwita Izina in 2023 by Sol Campbell.

It can be dif­fi­cult to find a bal­ance between spe­cies con­ser­va­tion and the needs and aspir­a­tions of our own spe­cies.  In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Sheil­lah Mun­sabe of the Wild­life Friendly Enter­prise Net­work describes a gor­illa-friendly mod­el for con­ser­va­tion, respons­ible tour­ism, and improved com­munity live­li­hoods. As we become more glob­al­ised, the respons­ib­il­ity for pro­tect­ing Earth’s […]

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