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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.

19 June 2025 - 11:00

Amid Middle East hostilities, travellers are reliant on repatriation flights and insurance

Following the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, airspace over Jordan, Iran, Iraq, and Israel has been closed, causing hundreds of cancellations and diversions to […]
18 June 2025 - 13:23

MIT researcher creates AI-based tool that restores age-damaged artworks in just hours

A mechanical engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new AI-based method for physically restoring damaged artworks – a potential breakthrough in art […]