Harold Goodwin.


Dr Harold Goodwin has worked on 4 continents with local communities, their governments 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, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership and adviser to the World Travel Market on its Responsible Tourism programme at WTM London, which attracts 4000 participants each year, and WTM Africa and Latin America and Arabian Travel Market. He chairs the panels of judges for the World Responsible Tourism Awards and the other Awards in the family, Africa, India and Latin America. 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 Cape Town Declaration.

2 February 2022

Responsible Tourism is an inclusive movement

Responsible Tourism is a very broad movement, resulting from developments in the late 1990s when the UK’s Association of Independent Tour Operators adopted a commitment to […]
25 January 2022

Flying cars and electric planes but new tech alone will not save our planet

In August last year, DHL Express ordered twelve 12 fully electric Alice eCargo planes from Eviation, based near Seattle, for delivery in 2024. John Pearson, CEO […]
18 January 2022

Plastics, greenhouse gases and procrastination

The Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) has reported a “dire emergency” a “deadly ticking clock” as I write this. Before you hasten to dismiss the hyperbole, consider […]
11 January 2022

Bude’s response to Climate Change – are there other examples of coastal communities?

Bude is in north Cornwall on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on the sharp edge of climate change. With storms coming out of the Atlantic. […]
4 January 2022

What does Covid teach us about Climate Change?

As we enter the second year of what Biden has characterised as humanity’s critical decade, we need to reflect on our progress tackling the three major […]
15 December 2021

Nature to Homes in Kerala

Kerala Voyages offers slow travel experiences with homestays and storytelling. Kerala has a wide variety of Village Life Experience tours developed by the government-funded Responsible Tourism […]
7 December 2021

All-inclusive responsible holidays in the next decade?

Might it be possible in the next decade to by an all-inclusive holiday with a decarbonised zero-emissions flight, and accommodation, food and beverage and excursions and […]
30 November 2021

Scotland’s adoption of Responsible Tourism gathers momentum

Today is St Andrew’s Day, the feast day of Andrew the Apostle. St Andrew officially became the patron saint of Scotland when the country’s independence was […]
24 November 2021

Is Aviation off the hook?

Aviation was hardly considered at the Glasgow COP. This despite its emissions not being counted in thenational carbon accounts where commitments were made to reduce emissions, […]
16 November 2021

Aviation made little, if any, progress at COP26

The Climate Action Tracker has warned that warned that the “good news” of the potential impact of announced net zero targets was bringing false hope to […]
10 November 2021

The WTM Responsible Tourism Awards are expanding to the Far East and China

Last week I wrote about the Global Award winners, but we recognised many more in India and the Rest of the World. The Awards are growing […]
2 November 2021

Outstanding destinations and tourism businesses recognised at the World Travel Market

At World Travel Market in London yesterday businesses and destinations around the world were recognised in the WTM Responsible Tourism Awards. The India and Rest of […]
27 October 2021

We are “way off track” on emissions

In 2020 the amounts of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide rose by more than the annual average in the past 10 years. Greenhouse gas emissions are […]
20 October 2021

Hydrogen is the game-changer we badly need

As we approach COP26 it is only too evident that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.  The July IPCC Report concluded that global carbon emissions needed […]
12 October 2021

At last, carbon labelling on flights

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about the greenwashing inherent in some labels and the problems associated with carbon offsetting. Consumers have resisted purchasing offsets. I […]
5 October 2021

Whose Responsibility is Tourism?

The aspiration is to make tourism better, but whose responsibility is it? Back in 2002, in the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism in Destinations, we […]
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