sustainable tourism

June 22, 2021

Why Sustainable Tourism Failed

This is a guest post written by John Swarbrooke. Way back in 1998, John published the seminal text on Sustainable Tourism Management, and it is still in print. ... Read more

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021

Community-led and owned Tourism: How Guyana’s own brand of sustainable destination management is helping indigenous communities thrive

Blog, Destinations

Community-led and owned tourism is an ethos in Guyana that has seen indigenous communities throughout the destination’s hinterland creating, implementing, and managing their own sustainable tourism projects ... Read more

June 3, 2020September 30, 2020

Does the COVID-19 emergency mean over-tourism is over?

Blog, Responsible Tourism

For our industry, where much of the conversation of the last few years in tourism has focussed on the issue of over-tourism, this question is especially pertinent. ... Read more

May 15, 2020May 29, 2020

Catch up – Tourism post-COVID: the challenges and opportunities for sustainable travel

Video, Webinars

Speakers Jeremy Smith is the editor of sustainable tourism news site Travindy.com. Author of recently published Transforming Travel – realising the potential of sustainable tourism (2018). As ... Read more

May 12, 2020June 1, 2020

Catch up – The New Normal? Country Branding at the time of Covid-19… and after

Video, Webinars

Speakers Samantha Adams is VP, Advertising Sales, Western Europe for BBC Global News, the international, commercial arm of the BBC. Prior to joining the BBC, she worked ... Read more

May 11, 2020September 30, 2020

How do we redesign tourism for a sustainable future?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

As we look at ways to achieve a sustainable future for tourism, we should ask what tourism can do to support a sustainable future. How can we ... Read more

March 15, 2016September 18, 2017

Sustainability and Fairy Tales – this is more serious than greenwashing

Carbon & Water, Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

I have been reminded of the feel good 1969 tv musical Silver Skates – it popularised the story, first published in 1865 by American author Mary Mapes ... Read more