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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.

6 December 2023 - 10:01

Tomorrowland and Brussels Airlines buy more SAF to reduce festival’s carbon footprint

Tomorrowland and its official aviation partner, Brussels Airlines, have announced that more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will be used on the flights taking festivalgoers to Belgium […]
5 December 2023 - 12:59

Harry Potter train route could be cancelled due to “risk of serious personal injury” to passengers

Since fans caught a glimpse of the train in ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’, the Jacobite train running from Fort William to Mallaig has […]
5 December 2023 - 08:07

New Zealand to fund tax cuts via a U-turn on anti-smoking legislation

New Zealand’s new Conservative coalition government is doing a U-turn on anti-smoking legislation. “World-leading” The legislation, introduced by previous Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern and passed in […]
4 December 2023 - 16:24

“European culture” and “rivers and birds” selected as possible themes for next euro banknotes

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the themes European citizens have selected for future euro banknotes: “European culture” and “rivers and […]