Category: Opinion

Why do small tourism businesses struggle with sustainability? Are incubators the solution?

In her latest column for Travindy, Aurora Daw Reinke explores the challenges facing SMEs seeking to imporove their environmental performance, and explores the roles of mentorship and start up incubators in helping them achieve their aims

Tourists’ expectations from emerging destinations – a view from Georgia.

When a well-travelled, tech-savvy, experience-hungry, time-pressured and quality-demanding traveller meets his host in a rural destination, there might be a clash, and there are complaints.

Impact-Travel – Measured. Green. 2050-proof

For sustainable travel to achieve its aims, it must be recast to focus on its impact, how it is measured, its carbon intensivity, and the speed at which this can happen.

What is the point of sustainability certification if consumers don’t care?

Columnist Aurora Dawn Reinke asks what responsible tourism businesses should do when research shows tourists are unaware of sustainability benchmarking and therefore aren't looking for it?

Why we don’t use the ‘V-word’ – complexities around international volunteering

How one company looks to avoid white saviour mentality and the legacy of paternalism when creating impact focussed trips

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