Dr Harold Goodwin has worked on 4 continents with local communities, their governments, accommodation providers and the inbound and outbound tourism industry. He is a Professor Emeritus and Responsible Tourism Director at the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, Founder of the ICRT.global, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership and adviser to WTM Africa on its Responsible Tourism programme. He chairs the panels of judges for the World Responsible Tourism Awards and the other Awards in the family, Africa, Europe, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia. . Harold founded the ICRTD series of International Conferences on Responsible Tourism in Destinations in 2002, he co-chairs the conferences with the local host organisation. He is also Founder Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism which he founded in 2002 and which promotes the principles of the 2002 Cape Town Declaration. In 2022 the Responsible Tourism Charter was signed on Magna Carta Island incorporating two decades of experience in using tourism to make better places for people to live in and to visit.
Last year we launched Responsible Tourism Awards in South East Asia organised with our partner the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and Hospitality (ICRTH). This year’s […]
Applications are open for the Europe and India editions of the 2025 Responsible Tourism Awards, with a submission deadline of 30 June. These awards, part of […]
Next Tuesday’s launch event in London for the Inclusive Travel Forum is sold out. In partnership with the Spanish Tourist Office, which has launched its “Spain […]
The travel and tourism industry is unusual, although by no means unique, in that the consumer travels to the ‘factory’ to consume the accommodation, food and […]
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In a crowded marketplace, tourism businesses and destinations struggle to differentiate themselves and to attract tourists, travellers and explorers. Even the language used to describe the […]
Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2, has warned that the industry needs to be ready to respond to customers’ concerns about tourism protests. Speaking at a […]
Harvard economist Michael Porter is most famous for his work on cluster theory. He argues that clusters benefit businesses in three ways: by increasing the productivity […]
The first of this year’s ICRT Global Responsible Tourism Awards were presented at WTM Africa, held at the CITCC in Cape Town. The ceremony resonated with […]
Successive Booking.com and Expedia research has evidenced growing consumer demand for more experimental and sustainable holidays. Many high street retailers and supermarkets are already adapting to […]
This week marked International Women’s Day prompting me to reflect on the remarkable women living in the buffer zone of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in […]
Across Europe and beyond, more and more communities are demonstrating that they are experiencing overtourism. At the end of last year, some argued that the crisis of […]
We have a continuous data set demonstrating that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. This pollution causes global warming, droughts and fires, storms, sea level rise […]