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.
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. […]
In signs of more unrest in the hospitality and tourism sector in the Spanish Balearic Islands, a hoteliers’ organisation has demanded “a strategic plan” to address […]
Officials in Zaragoza, northern Spain, have proposed measures to make cycling insurance obligatory in the city. Under the new regulations, put forward by far-right group Vox […]
The capital city of Spain, Madrid is unsurprisingly a must see destination. From the wide, bustling streets lined with majestic buildings to the calming, green parks, […]
Drinking on the street has been banned in popular holiday resorts in Mallorca and Ibiza, as authorities in Spain’s Balearic Islands continue to grapple with antisocial […]
Another day, another picturesque destination on the brink of desperate measures due to overtourism. This time it is a stunning coastal village on Menorca that has […]
The city of Granada in southern Spain’s Andalusia region offers a wealth of beauty and history. Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the […]
In centuries gone by it would have been enough to provoke apocalyptic predictions and religious panic, but today the three consecutive years’ of solar eclipses due […]
City authorities in Barcelona have come up with a surprisingly simple tool in the struggle against overtourism: keeping a bus route secret from tourists. Local residents […]
Overtourism around the world has led to taxes and bylaws to protect local environments and heritage, and even the installation in some places of guerilla signage […]
Following previous calls from different politicians for the abolition of golden visas, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday, 9 April, that the government has […]
Spain’s Canary Islands are considering bringing in a smoking ban on café and restaurant terraces, in a move aimed at reducing the risks of passive smoking […]
As tourism in Spain reached record levels in 2023, not everyone is as happy with the inflow of visitors. Locals of popular tourism destinations in particular […]
Spain’s coalition government, formed of the Sumar and PSOE parties, reached an agreement on 21 February on the ban of short haul domestic flights where a […]