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.
For the last couple of decades, we have been recognising tourism businesses as having a positive impact on nature, and this year we have recognised some great examples. […]
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I wrote here last week about the wildfires in Europe, now increasingly accepted as the new normal, and suggested the adage, “Never put off till tomorrow […]
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The judges were really impressed in the European Responsible Tourism Awards by the Mallorca SUP Stand-Up Paddleboarding SME. Hannah Louise Lopez is doing much more than […]
A Mastercard survey conducted across 28 European countries in February revealed that nearly half of the 27,000 holidaymakers surveyed planned to acquire or improve a skill […]
Research in 2024 revealed that 31% of travellers preferred to rent a house or apartment 50% preferring a hotel. Destinations were able to control the number […]
For years, Angola has been described through the familiar vocabulary of oil dependence, post-conflict recovery and unrealised potential. But between 17 and 19 June 2026, in […]
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