Given the pressing need to promote positive economic impacts while also conserving natural heritage, a free online training platform has been launched. ‘Sustainable Tourism: Training for Tomorrow’ aims to increase the quality, supply and accessibility of training in sustainable tourism for Protected Area stakeholders across Europe.
Food waste monitoring, training and awareness raising are key to providing significant impacts in reducing food waste. Speakers at a recent webinar for the World Regions of Gastronomy Platform also agreed that converting and reusing food waste for other purposes is a key challenge and that food waste reduction should be a positive message/campaign.
New research from Lund University highlights tourism’s lack of resilience to downturns and suggests there are few tangible guidelines to make tourism more resilient as well as climate friendlier. The authors conclude that many of the major structural changes will have to come from policy makers.
The tourism rebuild must negotiate a delicate balance between immediate recovery and long term sustainability. New tourism models must reduce the sector’s emissions while maintaining as much as possible its income and employment benefits, and an Australia-New Zealand-Pacific travel bubble is one solution.
Indigenous tourism offers an opportunity for non-indigenous Australians to learn about Aboriginal culture and history. Many Australians would like to make personal connections with Indigenous peoples, but don’t know how. Indigenous tours can be a starting point for new connections, and ultimately reconciliation.
