Category: Socio-economic issues

Electrifying Himalayan villages through sustainable tourism: Interview with Paras Loomba

High in the Himalayas, Paras Loomba the CEO, and founder of Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) is a social entrepreneur providing clean solar energy and...

The African nature based tourism platform – connecting funders to beneficiaries in 11 countries in eastern and southern Africa

Durban, South Africa - The newly launched African Nature-Based Tourism Platform is 8 months into its first year of the three-year project phase. It...

Stronger together: Tourism training partnerships help prevent child exploitation

The sexual exploitation of children by those who use the services of the travel & tourism industry is a difficult subject to acknowledge let...

Roundtable: How has the pandemic changed luxury travel?

The pandemic years have had a profound effect on almost every aspect of society. But during this period, other forces — climate change, social...

With litter piling up, mountain tourism reaches a crossroad

Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja has spent years scaling the world’s highest peaks. During a seven-month stretch in 2019, he climbed all 14 of the...

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