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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.

30 October 2023 - 16:16

European travel plans marked by financial pressures in late 2023 and early 2024

According to the latest report from the European Travel Commission (ETC), the sentiment regarding domestic and intra-European travel remains robust, although financial pressures are beginning to […]
30 October 2023 - 12:30

First fully integrated digital identity travel experience successfully tested by IATA

On 25 October, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) successfully tested the first fully integrated, biometrics-based digital identity travel experience, from shopping for flights to arrival, […]
30 October 2023 - 11:43

Frankfurt to become first European airport offering facial recognition check-in to all passengers

Frankfurt Airport is expanding the availability of biometric security and check-in services to all the airlines operating at the travel hub from November 2023, making it […]