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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.

10 August 2020

Tourist destinations
are having a holiday

At the heart of Responsible Tourism is the assertion that Responsible Tourism is first and foremost about making better places for people to live in. The […]
10 August 2020

Brussels Airport registers a decrease of 80.8% of passengers

Since the reintroduction of non-essential flights on 15 June, the number of passengers at Brussels Airport has increased, but it still remains 80% below July 2019.  […]
7 August 2020

Brussels Airlines reports a loss of €182 million due to Covid-19

In the first half of 2020, Brussels Airlines incurred a loss of €182 million as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the […]
7 August 2020

Touchless tech to restore
confidence in flying

Airports and airlines are working hard to restore confidence in flying. Every week an airline announces its new policies on safety and hygiene measures to instill […]
7 August 2020

Opening a company during Covid-19

Technically Boom Malta was launched in July 2019, but we did not kick off operations until November 2019 – so not *exactly* launching during Covid-19, but close enough. […]
6 August 2020

The anti-lockdown
movement in Germany

Protests against covid-19-related restrictions continue to gain popularity throughout Germany. On August 1, Berlin was flooded by thousands of people coming from all over Germany to […]
6 August 2020

Tourism destinations to focus on the needs of people with disabilities

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is calling on destinations to recognize the needs of travellers with disabilities or specific access requirements as they open up to […]
6 August 2020

Portugal launches Covid-19
travel insurance for tourists

Turismo de Portugal, Portugal’s national tourism authority, has launched an initiative to support tourism in the country: it is a specialized Covid-19 travel insurance scheme that […]
5 August 2020

More than two million travel & tourism jobs threatened in the UK

Nearly three million jobs in the UK look set to be lost due to the collapse of travel, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council […]
5 August 2020

Digital Nomads: Good news for
struggling tourist destinations

1. Digital nomads during the Covid-19 era The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the trend of digital nomads; this might be a boon for struggling tourist destinations […]
5 August 2020

Dubai Airport is dispatching Covid-19 sniffing dogs to check passengers

Dubai Airport is the first airport to make use of Covid-19 sniffing dogs to check arriving passengers. Before entering the United Arab Emirates (UAE), all passengers […]
4 August 2020

Covid-19 resurgence:
Tokyo reports 309 new cases

Covid-19 cases keep rising in the Japanese capital. Last Tuesday, the Tokyo metropolitan government reported 309 new cases and announced that the national tally exceeded again […]
4 August 2020

United Airlines: 25 international routes will be back in September

United Airlines announced it plans to resume service on several international routes in September, including flights to Asia, India, Australia, Israel and Latin America. The airline […]
4 August 2020

Has Covid-19 destroyed the business model for travel influencers?

Since the boom of Instagrammers and vloggers reached peaks never before seen in 2019, many people with an established online brand –some of them with several […]
4 August 2020

Building Canadians’ Confidence to Travel within Canada during Covid-19

Destination Canada has launched a national campaign running from mid-July to the end of August to give Canadians the confidence to travel within their country. The […]
3 August 2020

Brussels Airlines to repatriate Ghanaians from Brussels to Accra

Ghanaians stranded in Brussels due to the COVID-19 pandemic will finally be able to go back home. The Embassy of Ghana in Brussels has partnered with […]