Category: Activities

Start-Up connects micro-entrepreneurs with tourists

People First Tourism provides an opportunity for people found at the margins of the tourism industry to obtain some extra household cash for work they enjoy

Travel as Consumption

Today’s holiday brochures boast bargains like an Argos catalogue; instead of homeware and cheap electronics, we find tigers, temples and tribal villages. All are commodities, just the same

PATA announces winners of Tourism Inspire Awards 2015

Awards were in 6 categories: Branded & Independent Accommodation, Marine & Wildlife, Culture & Heritage, RT Destination, Community Based Tourism Initiative

African safari tourism: the ‘multiplier’ effect

For every one person employed by certain high-end tourism lodges in southern Africa, seven people benefit from the downstream flow of that income.

Just US$11 could make your entire holiday carbon-free, researchers say

Tourism sector needs to make substantial investments in carbon offsetting and emissions abatement initiatives from now until 2050

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