Category: Growth

Tourism has united around a common Call to Action, outlining a shared vision for the sustainable and inclusive future of the sector. The Call to Action brings together the solutions and plans put forward during a two-day summit, recognising the importance of transforming tourism ‘for people, for planet and for prosperity’.

Rafat Ali at Skift looks back at what we have learnt about the ‘new’ future direction of travel since the beginning of the pandemic. For Rafat, one of the big questions the industry and travellers now face is how to balance the conflicting notions of travel as a privilege and travel as a human need.

By leveraging Colombia’s extraordinary biodiversity, there is a considerable opportunity for the development of Colombia’s ecotourism subsector. Ecotourism has the potential to provide alternatives to coca production and new livelihood options for former militants. However, it is essential this is developed alongside infrastructure projects and social schemes.

For cities around the world, the pandemic has seen them emptied of tourists. Now some in Europe want to make sure they don’t come back in quite the same numbers as before. However, for curated tourism to have a chance, the hospitality sector must be on board.

In a project that will run until 2025 with the support of the World Bank, Cambodia plans to restore and expand infrastructure and develop sustainable tourism initiatives. They hope the targeted provinces will attract more domestic and foreign tourists and improve the incomes of local residents.