Category: Opinion

Interview with director of The Voluntourist documentary, Chloé Sanguinetti

For 18 months, Chloé Sanguinetti travelled the world, interviewing volunteers and people working for volunteer orgs about the growth of voluntourism

Measuring what matters in tourism

Tourism needs to improve the tools that measure how well we fulfil our promise to the communities in the destinations that comprise our core product

Travel Plus Social Good: It All Starts with WHY?

What might a truly regenerative, purposeful tourism look like? How might we get there? And why should we?

Are good intentions good enough? Protecting children in short-term missions

Why short-term missions must become more reflective, more conscious of complexity, and be built upon a strong foundation of ethics

Most children in orphanages aren’t orphans

Most kids in orphanages have at least one living parent. Families send their kids there because they think it will provide better opportunities for them.

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