Category: Opinion

Certification

Melaka highlights pros and cons of World Heritage listing

Jeremy Smith - 0
The Malaysian town of Malacca shows how gaining UNESCO World Heritage Site status is a double edged sword, boosting both conservation and visitor numbers
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Community

What Tanabe, Japan, is teaching world about responsible tourism

Travindy - 0
By bringing community members into a grass roots effort, Tanabe City has discovered less (tourism) is more.
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Activities

Backpacker, go home: How tourism is ruining everything

Travindy - 0
tourists should ask themselves “What about my behaviour? Is it one of mutual respect? Or am I going there to do what I want?"
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Activities

What I learned on a luxury cruise through the global-warming apocalypse

Travindy - 0
To see the Arctic before it melted, Roy Scranton took an “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth. We can't make it stop.
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Community

Tourism and a fetish for arrival numbers: learning from the Phillippines

Travindy - 0
A myopia that looks only at total arrivals and receipts ignores the serious socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism.
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