Sustainable Destinations
Examples and discussions review the challenges and opportunities for more sustainable destinations. These include case examples of tourism trails, the value of cultural heritage, sustainable tourism destination indicators and other factors effecting the long term destination attractiveness and community value.
Tourism and Place Management
Submitted by chris warren on Mon, 05/02/2018 - 12:17pm
Chris recently spoke at World Travel Market London.
Out of Africa...reflections of UNWTO Symposium 2017
Submitted by chris warren on Thu, 14/12/2017 - 6:22am
Presenting at the UNWTO International Symposium on Innovation in Sustainable Tourism (Botswana, December 2017) spotlighted for me why Africa has so many examples of world-leading responsible tourism firms. Africa’s reflective qualities and approach to prosper in harmony with nature and communities was clear from the beginning of the event; “who benefits from sustainability…..why are we saving the planet?
‘Gold Rush’ tourism – the exploitation of land and people
Submitted by chris warren on Sat, 25/11/2017 - 7:17am
The enormous growth in tourism, which we are all now too familiar hearing of (leading to overtourism, depletion of natural resources and pollution), could be accelerating out of control (Peeteers, 2017). Can we draw on history and culture to manage it? Attending and speaking at the fascinating Chinese Dream Conference held by Griffith Institute For Tourism, I heard the facts and figures of Chinese outbound growth. These were similar to presentations I listened to at WTM in London and in Dubai.
