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.
At the founding conference of the Responsible Tourism movement held in Cape Town in 2002, the 280 delegates from 20 countries, most of them en route […]
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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 […]
Occasionally, but increasingly frequently, overtourism is reported worldwide, as seen in the water pistol incidents last year. Many within the travel and tourism sector, as well […]
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 […]