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Dr Harold Goodwin has worked on 4 continents with local communities, their governments 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, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership and adviser to the World Travel Market on its Responsible Tourism programme at WTM London, which attracts 4000 participants each year, and WTM Africa and Latin America and Arabian Travel Market. He chairs the panels of judges for the World Responsible Tourism Awards and the other Awards in the family, Africa, India and Latin America. 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 Cape Town Declaration.

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15 December 2021

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Nature to Homes in Kerala

Kerala Voyages offers slow travel experiences with homestays and storytelling. Kerala has a wide variety of Village Life Experience tours developed by the government-funded Responsible Tourism […]

15 December 2021

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150-year-old light festival gives joy to people in Lyon

From the 8th until the 11th of December, Lyon’s Fêtes des Lumières dazzled people with more than 30 projections and light installations giving special life to […]

15 December 2021

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How Covid-19 smashed air travel

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on December that the new Omicron variant might soon outpace Delta. Though no deaths caused by Omicron have been reported […]

14 December 2021

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United resumes sale of hard liquor on its flights

United Airlines is selling hard liquor again to its passengers. In a statement, the company announced that the decision was made “in response to the feedback […]

14 December 2021

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Berlin’s Brandenburg airport faces rough criticism as difficulties drag on one year after opening

Berlin’s new airport, Berlin-Brandenburg (BER) has had a rocky start during its first year of operation. Some of the challenges have included lengthy check-in and security […]

14 December 2021

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Sustainable tourism can offer mountain communities a path to prosperity and inclusion

Sustainable tourism plays a key role in boosting livelihoods, poverty alleviation, and environmental conservation in mountainous areas, according to a new report launched by the Food and Agriculture […]

14 December 2021

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Myanmar announces plans to reopen in early 2022

Authorities in Myanmar have announced plans to reopen its tourism sector to foreigners in early 2022. The initial target would be tourists from Asia. According to […]

14 December 2021

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Omicron variant to soon outpace Delta, WHO has warned

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that, based on limited preliminary data, the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus could outpace the Delta variant where […]

13 December 2021

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Uber is back to business in Brussels

On Friday December 10th, the parliament of the Brussels Region gave the green light to the proposed transitional ordinance that would allow the Uber platform to […]

13 December 2021

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19-year old Belgian aviator astonishes the world with historic flight

Belgian 19-year-old pilot Zara Rutherford landed in South Korea on one of her stopovers in her attempt to become the youngest woman to fly solo around […]

13 December 2021

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Dubai welcomed 4.88 million tourists during the first 10 months of 2021

Dubai’s Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) revealed that the emirate welcomed 4.88 million visitors between January and October 2021 with international visitors during October alone […]

13 December 2021

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Italy’s Trenitalia to launch high-speed route between Paris and Milan

The French TGV on the Paris-Lyon route will get a competitor soon. Trenitalia, the Italian national railway company, is expected to launch its high-speed Frecciarossa on […]

10 December 2021

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Tel Aviv is now the most expensive city in the world

Tel Aviv has overtaken Hong Kong, Paris and Zurich, becoming the most expensive city to live in. The Israeli capital is known for the high prices […]

10 December 2021

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Rescind travel bans urges IATA and WHO

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for governments to follow World Health Organization (WHO) advice and immediately rescind travel bans that were introduced in response […]

9 December 2021

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UAE to change weekend to Saturday and Sunday starting next year

The majority of the countries in the Gulf have their weekends on Friday and Saturday since Friday has since long been a sacred day for Islam […]

9 December 2021

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Europe’s failure to make progress on the Single European Sky delays aviation’s decarbonisation

After more than a year of negotiations since the Single European Sky (SES) 2+ regulatory proposal was first published by the European Commission – and following […]

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