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 ย 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.
Over the last twelve months, we have made some progress in learning to live with Covid with vaccinations and better treatments, new social protocols and vaccine [โฆ]
Dr. Chloe Buiting โ dubbed the ‘Jungle Doctor’ โ is a dedicated 31-year-old Australian veterinarian who is passionate about species conservation and wildlife medicine. Despite her young age, the [โฆ]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned of potential airport chaos unless governments move quickly to adopt digital processes to manage travel health credentials (Covid-19 testing [โฆ]
The search is on for the best examples of rural villages harnessing the power of tourism to provide opportunity and safeguard their communities, local traditions and [โฆ]
Nonstop flights are getting longer. In fact in March 2020, Air Tahiti Nui operated the longest nonstop commercial flight in history. Flying from Papeete, Tahiti, to Paris, France, [โฆ]
Microsoft has announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of [โฆ]
A Blood Moon dazzled the inhabitants of the Pacific on the night of Wednesday May 26th. The phenomenon occurs during the conjunction of two events: a [โฆ]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Tourism Economics released a long-term view for post-COVID-19 passenger demand recovery which demonstrates that people remain eager to travel [โฆ]
According to credit rating agency Moodyโs, it will take two years for the tourism industry to recover, meaning economies which rely on the industry will remain [โฆ]
A tourism industry failure led to Geotourist. Shaon Talukder is the founder and now CEO of Geotourist. Travelling in Australia he had planned to join a [โฆ]
An enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, lying in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctica, announced the European Space Agency [โฆ]
Itay won the 65th Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Zitti e buoniโ performed by Mรฅneskin. It’s the 3rd win for Italy who last triumphed in [โฆ]
Break free from your happiness trap! This week I had the opportunity to speak at the Accessible & Inclusive Tourism conference in the Asia Pacific (AITCAP) [โฆ]
Times are changing. Quickly. Some decades ago, a standard meal often consisted of a piece of meat, some veggies, and a portion of potatoes. Most of [โฆ]