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(WTM RESPONSIBLE TOURISM) “Looking across the winners of the inaugural African Responsible Tourism Awards<\/a>, one encouraging trend is clear. Several of the winners are not just examples of what you might class as typical \u2018African\u2019 tourism done well. Instead, they are challenging such preconceptions and stereotypes, and reinventing traditional tourism models along the way.”<\/p>\n

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