Category: Opinion

Can a Trip Ever Be ‘Authentic’?

When we settle into our $500-a-night suite surrounded by oil lamps and bangled dancers, we couldn’t be further from the ‘‘real India’’ outside

Airbnb, social media and the quest for the authentic urban experience

Opening up tourism to grassroots entrepreneurs has been a democratising process.

VIDEO: WTM responsible tourism programme addresses climate change

The keynote speech at this year's World Responsible Tourism Day told some hard truths about their impact on climate change, and what needs to be done

VIDEO: Four Responsible Tourism sessions from Tuesday at WTM London 2015

Sessions on carbon efficiency, wildlife, child protection and the role of governments in managing tourism in destintations

Why #FeesMustFall protest has silenced the white travel industry 

This is a world where PR events and media launches remain lily-white, and “cool” blacks are pounced upon to include in “rainbow nation” social media images

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