Malawi-based tour operator, The Responsible Safari Company, specialises in sustainable, educational and philanthropic travel experiences. Despite the devastating effects of the pandemic on their business, the company have declared a climate emergency and signed up to the guiding principles outlined by the Future Of Tourism Coalition. For managing director, Kate Webb, improving economic resilience goes hand in hand with protecting local ecosystems.
In a new paper published in Science Direct, Professor Gossling discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to reconsider the foundations of the global aviation system. He suggests that the volume growth model championed by industry and aviation proponents may have to be replaced with an alternative model that accounts for its environmental impacts.
COVID-19 has demonstrated that changes must be made in order to support and secure the future of travel. It has also brought to the fore how central the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are in supporting the responsible recovery of the tourism sector. Here author Lindsay Grace Kinniburgh looks at what businesses can learn from the renowned paradise, Bawah Reserve.
Tourism ventures need to balance the needs of guests and staff with the needs of surrounding communities. Researchers in Southern Africa suggest using water-use benchmarks to provide targets for water usage and to serve as a planning tool for future wildlife tourism developments in the region.
The diploma is the first of its type and is aimed at students from developing countries and small island states. It will train students to support businesses in the travel and transport industry in adjusting their operations towards the goal of becoming carbon neutral, in the face of the global challenge of Climate Change.
