For the founder of MEDJI Tours, the stories of the people who live where we travel should be at the heart of our travel experiences. He explains why the company started a livestream to connect travellers with storytellers from all over the world, and how travel can be used to build bridges between people.
Writer and environmentalist Jonathon Porritt hopes the current pandemic will result in some kind of flight path for the airline industry’s sustainable future, with governments playing a key role in ensuring that bailouts are dependant on decarbonisation efforts.
Despite advances in the argument for a transformation of tourism brought about by the pandemic crisis, there is a need for a more robust, multi-scale policy of intervention to challenge the power of tourism capital.
Equality in Tourism trustee, Angela Kalisch, writes about why gender should be at the forefront of the Travel Foundation’s call to put communities at the centre of recovery from COVID-19.
How long can DMOs survive without their traditional sources of funding and how will tourism marketing look post-coronavirus? Despite unprecedented challenges, this crisis is also an opportunity for the industry to reinvent itself.
Sustainability is a top priority for a small minority of travelers, ranging from 7% to 11%, according to a survey from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).