Category: Community

NEW REPORT: Water, Women and Tourism in Labuan Bajo

Tourism has added to a water crisis in the rapidly growing gateway town to Komodo National Park: Labuan Bajo

Backpacker, go home: How tourism is ruining everything

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

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

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

Melting ice a ticking time bomb for Pacific islands

At current rates, sea-level rise will submerge or make unliveable many islands within a century, maybe sooner

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

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