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Press Releases

WTM Africa Responsible Tourism Awards entries are open

Africa Travel Week is calling all sustainability champions, changemakers, movers, and shakers to enter the WTM Responsible Tourism Awards 2023 as applications are now open for entries. This is your chance to...

Africa Travel Week

Responsible Tourism

WTM Africa Responsible Tourism Winners

A highlight on the WTM Africa calendar, the WTM Africa Responsible Tourism awards champion the very best work in Responsible Tourism on the African continent. Join us as we celebrate those –...

Harold Goodwin

Responsible Tourism

Why Responsible Tourism matters

At WTM Africa in April we are reflecting on progress since 2002 when the Cape Declaration launched the Responsible Tourism movement. 20 years on we are reflecting on progress and looking to the future...

Harold Goodwin

Category - Responsible Tourism

Responsible Tourism

Ubuntu matters in travel & tourism – WTM’s new Platform for Change will enable us to share solutions

The trading environment is going to be difficult, those who take responsibility and mitigate and adapt will survive. Our sector is characterised by interdependence between transport, accommodation providers, attractions...

Harold Goodwin

Webinars

RECAP: Rebuilding Tourism and Hospitality Sustainably

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive. It is the ones most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin Tourism as the vanguard! Could Covid-19 be a dress rehearsal for Climate Change and could it be giving us a...

Africa Travel Week

Responsible Tourism

Stand out through the Global Responsible Tourism Awards

Travellers and holidaymakers are looking for responsible businesses and destinations – stand out through the Global Responsible Tourism Awards. Booking.com’s latest global research suggests that we have...

Harold Goodwin

Responsible Tourism

Keep it Wild! Africa Travel Week speaks to Dr Louise de Waal, Blood Lions Campaign Manager

The Blood Lions team has a lot to celebrate following the recent release of a new high-level panel report by Environmental Affairs Minister Barbra Creecy. This new report reviews policies and regulations in relation to...

Africa Travel Week

Diversity & Inclusion

How can tourism create more value for local communities?

One of the central tenets of responsible tourism is ensuring greater community involvement and benefit, but this can be a challenging and complex goal to meet. Historic issues coupled with misconceptions can make the...

Africa Travel Week

Press Releases

Africa Travel Week shines a spotlight on animal welfare and tourism

Africa Travel Week has thrown its full support behind the recent announcement by South Africa Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy putting an end to captive lion breeding. This follows the findings of a High...

Africa Travel Week

Responsible Tourism

CATCH-UP: Animal Welfare & Tourism – How a pandemic reshaped our priorities

The pandemic has not just halted travel, it has changed the way we travel. We’ve never been more aware of the need to prevent animal exploitation for the health of our planet and people. Indeed, the links between...

Africa Travel Week

Diversity & Inclusion

Whose diversity is it?

In the pause created by the pandemic, many have started to ask some of the big questions about how the tourism industry operates – and one of the key debates, especially in the age of selfies and overtourism, is...

Africa Travel Week

Responsible Tourism

Tourism and Biodiversity: Friend or Foe

At WTM Africa there was a panel discussion about the relationship between tourism and the maintenance of biodiversity. Africa is still blessed with much of world’ charismatic megafauna, the Big 5 and a host of other...

Harold Goodwin

Responsible Tourism

Revenge Travel and the hunt for Responsible Tourists

There is presently much chatter about “revenge travel” as the industry anticipates a post-lockdown boom in travel, although the world is far from post-Covid. The concept of “revenge spending” arose in the 1980s in China...

Harold Goodwin

WTM Africa Responsible Tourism Awards entries are open

WTM Africa Responsible Tourism Winners

Why Responsible Tourism matters

Category - Responsible Tourism

Ubuntu matters in travel & tourism – WTM’s new Platform for Change will enable us to share solutions

RECAP: Rebuilding Tourism and Hospitality Sustainably

Stand out through the Global Responsible Tourism Awards

Keep it Wild! Africa Travel Week speaks to Dr Louise de Waal, Blood Lions Campaign Manager

How can tourism create more value for local communities?

Africa Travel Week shines a spotlight on animal welfare and tourism

CATCH-UP: Animal Welfare & Tourism – How a pandemic reshaped our priorities

Whose diversity is it?

Tourism and Biodiversity: Friend or Foe

Revenge Travel and the hunt for Responsible Tourists

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