A Platform for Change in the Critical Decade
Responsible Tourism enters its 3rd Decade.
The theme of WTM London in November 2020 was Recover, Rebuild, Innovate. This Platform for Change has been drafted to provoke discussion about the issues which need to be addressed and the solutions which been tried and tested. Since 2004 Responsible Tourism Awards have been presented at WTM London each year and now also at WTM Africa and WTM LAT. Over the last couple of decades, many solutions have been developed and tested. In this decade, there needs to be more replication in order to tackle the challenge of sustainability. The Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of the importance of resilience. In 2002, the Cape Town Declaration celebrated the world’s diversity, its broad economic, social and environmental agenda for called upon all stakeholders at the destination level “to take responsibility for achieving sustainable tourism and create better places for people to live in and for people to visit.” Sustainability is the ambition. Responsible Tourism is about what we do as producers, consumers and destination governments to realise the aspiration. Preamble
Shannon Guihan, of the The Travel Corporation, interviews Harold Goodwin about the Platform for Change
