Category: Socio-economic issues

Booking.com and UN Tourism develop online training series for hospitality

A new series of online training sessions for hospitality businesses, focusing on community engagement, energy and greenhouse gases, as well as food and water management, has been developed by Booking.com in collaboration with UN Tourism.

An integrative framework of sexual harassment prevention

As a people driven business, the world of hospitality and tourism is known for its commitment to customer centricity where customer service and satisfaction are key performance indicators. Paradoxically, or for that precise reason that the “customer is king”, the industry grapples with the pervasive issue of sexual harassment.

Paris airport workers threaten to strike before the Olympics

If the strike does go ahead, it will take place just one day before the athletes arrive for the 2024 Olympic Games. Workers at Paris...

Why do locals in Barcelona support Airbnb crackdown?

In Spanish cities suffering from overtourism, rules have slowly been introduced to help regulate numbers, including limits on the number of tourist rentals.

Locals in Málaga protest tourism amid rising rents and gentrification

Marching under the slogan ‘Málaga for living, not surviving’, last weekend 15,000 people took to the streets to demand affordable housing and protest mass-tourism in the Costa del Sol city.

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Helsinki named world’s most sustainable destination by GDSI

Helsinki named world’s most sustainable travel destination — The Global Destination Sustainability Index measures the sustainability of travel destinations in four different categories using more than 70 indicators.