Category: Environmental issues

On the International Day for Biological Diversity UNWTO announces a training on tourism and biodiversity in West and Central Africa

The Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations has chosen ‘Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism’ as the theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity, which was celebrated on 22 May 2017.

Tinkering with ‘ecotourism’ hides the real face of tourism

Like no other industry, tourism promotes – and glamorizes – a hyper-mobile and hyper-consumeristic lifestyle, rendering sustainability elusive.

Tomorrow needs today: Martin’s Hotels embraces circular economy

The award-winning Belgian hotel chain has developed one of the most far reaching approaches to supply chain management, and engaged staff and guests in its transformative efforts

How technology can help reduce a hotel’s environmental impact – Interview with Klaus Fielsch from Finch Bay Galapagos

Klaus Fielsch from Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel, NatGeo World Legacy Awards finalist in Earth Changers, speaks about building their own agriculture farm that helps reduce food imports and waste.

Tourism tax avoiders ‘no better than the poachers and the smugglers’ says CITES head

When tourism does not engage with local communities or invests so that all of the profits go off shore, it fuels destruction of wildlife, says CITES head in keynote speech at WTTC Summit

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