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.
One reason we are struggling and failing to make sufficient progress towards the aspiration of sustainable development is that to achieve it, we need to think […]
Overtourism describes destinations where hosts or guests, locals or visitors, feel that there are too many tourists and that the quality of life in the area […]
Hurricanes and deadly heat are impacting tourism – it will get worse. As I write this, reports of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Beryl are in […]
Until fairly recently, tourism coverage in the daily papers was limited. It was limited to the travel supplements, which often ran stories about, for example, the […]
Saskia Griep has long been a pioneer in Responsible Tourism, always at the cutting edge of the triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. […]
I wrote last week about the protests against overtourism in the Canaries. Protests which involved eleven people going on a twenty-day hunger strike. The Canary Islands are exhausted. […]
Obviously, an ‘outsider’ from Kent, passionate about Scotland, but an irregular if frequent visitor is not best placed to say. But judged against the Responsible Tourism […]
In March, Booking.com removed the Travel Sustainable badge from their platform: “In anticipation of upcoming regulatory changes, we’re adapting our approach to focus more on third-party […]
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), UN Tourism (formerly UNWTO) and the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance have formed a partnership to reverse biodiversity loss. This new […]
The World Responsible Tourism Awards were launched in 2004 by Justin Francies of Responsible Travel. I have had the honour of chairing the panels of judges […]