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.
Back in April, I wrote here about the new methodology that the ICRT global has developed with colleagues in southern Africa to reliably report on the […]
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In their joint ‘Global Report on Women in Tourism Transport’, UN Tourism and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) provide a comprehensive overview of women’s participation […]
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Lufthansa Technik has started construction on a 55,000-square-metre maintenance facility in Santa Maria da Feira, south of Porto, in a move that extends Lufthansa Group’s industrial […]
Brussels Airlines has announced the resumption of flights from the Belgian capital to Tel Aviv, from 1 August 2026, putting an end to the most recent […]
As places around the world grapple with overtourism, with destinations as diverse as Venice and Mount Fuji introducing access fees, one village in Asia has hit […]
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