{"id":6741,"date":"2015-09-23T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2016-06-09T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T04:52:20","slug":"inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring ways tourism is helping refugees, and how it could do more"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6743\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6743\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/migrantour-main-block-image.png\" alt=\"A Migrantour guide showing visitors around Petit Mali in Paris\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/migrantour-main-block-image.png 700w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/migrantour-main-block-image-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/migrantour-main-block-image-235x100.png 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Migrantour guide showing visitors around Petit Mali in Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you only read some of the more reactionary publications around, you might be mistaken for thinking that tourism\u2019s response to the growing refugee crisis was mostly anger at having holidays spoiled. \u201cHolidaymaker misery\u201d ran one headline. \u201cBritish tourists complain that impoverished boat migrants are making holidays \u2018awkward\u2019 in Kos\u201d announced another.<\/p>\n<p>But if you look beyond the bile there are some truly inspiring stories that deserve to be circulated and replicated far more.<\/p>\n<h6>In Brief<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>An initiative started by travel agents including the Dutch operator Jonas Madsen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/tourists-are-packing-extra-clothes-to-donate-to-refugees-arriving-in-greece-10409860.html\" target=\"_blank\">granting tourists visiting Greek islands such as Kos and Lesbos an extra 20kg of free luggage<\/a> if they use it to take out much needed supplies to the refugees arriving at the same islands that they are holidaying on.<\/li>\n<li>At\u00a0the recently opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magdas-hotel.at\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Magdas hotel<\/a>\u00a0in Vienna almost all the staff, ranging from receptionists to waiters \u2013 are refugees. In all there are refugees from 11 countries working in the hotel, which also reserves two suites at the hotel for asylum-seekers under the age of 18 living in Austria without family.<\/li>\n<li>Over the last 24 months, Migrantour has been creating a European network promoting guided walks led by citizens from migrant backgrounds, designed to promote intercultural diversity and to provide an added source of income for disadvantaged migrants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In Depth<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the original article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wtmlondon.com\/blog\/responsible-tourism\/inspiring-ways-tourism-helping-refugees-even\/\" target=\"_blank\">WTM London Responsible Tourism blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Follow WTM&#8217;s R<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wtm_wrtd\" target=\"_blank\">esponsible Tourism twitter feed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=6753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Receive a\u00a0free PDF of the Travindy Ideas report &#8220;15 ways tourism can help refugees&#8221; by email.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/How-Tourism-can-support-refugees.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open the report &#8220;15 ways tourism can help refugees&#8221; in a new\u00a0tab<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In the Future<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look beyond the tabloid bile there are some truly inspiring stories of tourism addressing refugee crisis that deserve to be replicated far more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,268,131,675,287,535,264,141],"tags":[511],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inspiring ways tourism is helping refugees, and how it could do more<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you look beyond the tabloid bile there are some truly inspiring stories of tourism addressing refugee crisis that deserve to be replicated far more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inspiring ways tourism is helping refugees, and how it could do more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you look beyond the tabloid bile there are some truly inspiring stories of tourism addressing refugee crisis that deserve to be replicated far more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Travindy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/travindy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"jeremymcsmith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-23T07:18:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-09T04:52:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/migrantour-featured-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeremy Smith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jmcsmith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Travindy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeremy Smith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeremy Smith\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/65cacdf3d7388f87bd41e07423b7fbc4\"},\"headline\":\"Inspiring ways tourism is helping refugees, and how it could do more\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-23T07:18:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-09T04:52:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/inspiring-ways-tourism-is-helping-refugees-and-how-it-could-do-more\/\"},\"wordCount\":293,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Refugees\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Accommodations\",\"Activities\",\"Community\",\"Corporate Responsibility\",\"Innovation\",\"Opinion\",\"Staff &amp; 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