Gabby Walters is an expert in crisis and disaster recovery marketing. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Dr Walters shares some of what she knows about traveller concerns during and after a disruptive event and what travel & tourism stakeholders can do to mitigate losses and bounce back strongly.
The Bioasis project is the exciting new UK programme from the team behind STC Expeditions: an ‘immersive’ outdoor adventure, set in the year 2074 in a post climate-change apocalyptic world. School groups can choose either a 6 or 10 day mission to learn about conservation, rewilding and reconnecting with nature. Here Rebecca Waller chats to Adrian Ferraro to find out more.
Renown journalist and author Elizabth Becker identified the threat of ‘overtourism’ in her book 'OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism', published in 2013. In this interview with Sustainability Leaders, she shares what inspired her to write her book and discusses how governments, the cruise industry and the media need to step up to the challenge to make tourism more sustainable.
Ruth Dolla, Official Spokesperson, Visit Sweden, talks to ETTravelWorld about how sustainability is a part of the Swedish lifestyle and is reflected in every aspect that a tourist experiences. By supporting tourism companies that offer sustainable experiences, a tourist is able to contribute to the circular economy and the experiences that they take back might inspire them and others to keep on living sustainably making tourism a tool for sustainable development.
Skål recently recognised the International Trade Centre’s Myanmar Inclusive Tourism Project with a sustainable tourism award. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Project consultant Peter Richards describes the pre-pandemic promise of new community-based tourism products, their challenges now, and how communities are handling COVID safety concerns as they consider reopening.
