Marta studied Political Science and Media & Journalism at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and has developed her journalistic career working for the Portuguese newspapers Diário de Notícias, Correio da Manhā and media outlets in Brussels. She is a reporter for Travel Tomorrow, and is also engaged in delivering communications services and EU policy research for different consultancies in Brussels. A former Blue Book trainee of the European Commission, Marta has a keen interest in EU and global affairs, and experience in reporting and interpreting information. Whenever she can, Marta loves traveling, exploring nature and learning about regenerative agriculture. She is also quite enthusiastic about space ventures and the cosmos.
The Iriomote island, located in the Okinawa prefecture, will restrict the number of tourists to 1,200 per day. 1. Protecting biodiversity The Japanese island of Iriomote […]
The Czech Tourism Authority has launched a campaign focused on sustainability in the Czech Republic, aiming to promote sustainable and responsible tourism practices and to raise […]
Twenty organizations representing the European travel and tourism sector have agreed to sign a Code of Conduct on data sharing in the tourism sector. The non-binding […]
Kerala has understood the weaknesses of existing certification schemes and they have developed a better approach. The purpose of consumer-facing certification is presumably to assure the […]
Everybody was happy when the Covid-19 travel restrictions ended and people could travel again. Famous tourists spots were once again flocked with visitors, which was a […]
In 2008 Dr Venu, then Secretary of Tourism, hosted the 2nd International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations. There was conserabel disquiet in the backwater villages […]
Kerala will be hosting the first Global Summit on Responsible Tourism on 25-27 February 2023. Responsible Tourism arrived in Kerala in 2008 when Dr Venu, the […]
John Swarbrooke is widely recognised as having written the textbook on Sustainable Tourism Management. Published in 1998, it was widely used in colleges and universities, informing […]
The UnTours Foundation has announced the launch of the Rest Tourism Fund, a project aimed to provide much needed financing to tourism entrepreneurs and start-ups around […]
If you put “Community-based tourism” into Google, it will return 310,000 results in 0.37 seconds. It is an enduring concept, popular with academics, research students and […]
Weeva presents itself as a digital system for managing sustainability. Born in April 2020, as the safari industry in Africa crumbled in the face of Covid-19, […]
The Magpie River has become the first river in Canada to be granted legal personhood. On February 23rd, 2021, the Alliance for the Protection of the […]
Two years ago, the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) published Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, which reported that natural habitats have continued to disappear, vast numbers of […]
There are approximately 2 million people in Canada who identify as Indigenous, representing about 5 percent of the population. This includes First Nations, Inuit and Métis. […]