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1 December 2020

Nuuk, Greenland, close to becoming world’s first certified sustainable capital

The largest and capital city of Greenland, Nuuk, has recently achieved a Bronze Benchmarking, meaning the city has completed the first three (out of six) steps […]
27 November 2020

Aloha Mantra for a meaningful life and sustainable trips

It was 2013, I was on a trip to Hawaii. My friend Juergen did show me around the exotic island. However, I would not have felt […]
26 November 2020

Global Tourism Plastics Initiative: 26 New Signatories

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative has welcomed 26 new signatories, including businesses and organizations from every part of the global tourism value chain. Led by the […]
26 November 2020

The ‘Slow Ways’-project wants to put all the local British walkways on the map

All in all, lockdown is not exactly something we are happy about. No one likes to be trapped inside for several weeks, months even. It is […]
25 November 2020

Uruguay: Celebrating Resilience and Tourism’s Sustainable Restart

The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has concluded his official visit to the Americas with a series of high-level meetings in Uruguay. Secretary-General Zurab […]
24 November 2020

Supporting Sustainable Recovery of Tourism in Brazil

The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has reaffirmed his commitment to working closely with the Government of Brazil to help the country’s tourism sector […]
23 November 2020

Virtual Travel – Virtuous?

There has been much talk about how Covid-19 has accelerated changes in the way people work, in business travel and driving development and growth in online […]
18 November 2020

Why is Málaga a city of smart tourism?

Named European Capital of Smart Tourism 2020, (joint with Gothenburg, Sweden), the city of Málaga in Spain showed exemplary achievements in all categories of the awards […]
17 November 2020

Tourism for Good

In this year’s World Responsible Tourism Awards, we sought to recognise those businesses and organisations which had stepped up to take responsibility as the pandemic stopped […]
16 November 2020

Teachings by a Nomad

UNESCO added Kokoxili located in Tibet to its World Heritage list in July 2017. Kokoxili (Hoh Xil in Chinese) is the world’s largest and highest plateau […]
16 November 2020

Why tourism can never die: Service with a Smile

Technology is booming.  We have apps to book flights, to book hotels, to book attractions and tours. Big money is focusing on software and automation. Which […]
13 November 2020

What is Nanotourism, and how can it help us?

There have long been concerns about the tourism sector and the role it plays in contributing to climate change, as well as the negative impacts (eg. […]
12 November 2020

Why tourism can never die: Exploring the unknown

Mankind is thirsty. Thirsty for exploration. It’s always been this way, and it will always be this way. There will be wars. There will be viruses. There will be […]
10 November 2020

Porto Santo named UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Porto Santo is the second largest island of the the archipelago of Madeira and home to 5483 people. In addition to this, Porto Santo Biosphere Reserve […]
10 November 2020

Egypt’s efforts to preserve its coral reefs in the Red Sea

The waters of the Red Sea just off the Egyptian coast are home to some of the most productive and diverse coral reefs in the world, […]
10 November 2020

Can we make tourism better?

The Covid-19 pandemic has paused the inexorable growth in domestic and international tourism facilitated by fossil fuels and increasing prosperity. The pause has created an opportunity […]
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