RTP Logo
Responsible Tourism Partnership
Responsible Tourism by Harold Goodwin
RT Main Menu
close
RT Main Menu
close
RT Resources
close

Responsible Tourism is what we do to make tourism more sustainable, it is about how we use tourism to create sustainable development to benefit communities and destinations

Sustainability is the ambition; Responsible Tourism is about what we do as producers and consumers to realise the aspiration. Too often sustainable is used only in the abstract sense. Responsible Tourism is not the same as sustainable tourism. Responsibility requires that we say what we are doing to make tourism better and that we are transparent about what we achieve.   The agenda is broad across the three pillars of economic, social and environmental responsibility a wide range of resources are available. Responsible Tourism is about using tourism to make better places to live in and better places to visit. Overtourism is the opposite, a consequence of a failure to manage tourism sustainably. Overtourism describes destinations where hosts or guests, locals or visitors, feel that there are too many visitors and that the quality of life in the area or the quality of the experience has deteriorated unacceptably.  Often both visitors and guests experience the deterioration concurrently. There are a variety of causes and solutions. Aviation is the Achilles heel of the travel and tourism sector. If you are buying offsets, take care, you may be jeopardising your reputation, particularly if you are selling them to your customers. If something looks too good to be true, it usually is. Carbon offsetting is too good to be true. There is more here about the questions to ask of any carbon offset. It is important to begin now to develop alternative fuels to maintain aviation. Harold Goodwin drafted the Cape Town Declaration in 2002, the founding manifesto of the Responsible Tourism Movement. Since 2004 Responsible Tourism Awards have recognised good practice and spread awareness of what can, and should, be done. There are International Centres around the world and annual conferences to share and promote Responsible Tourism. Harold is the WTM’s Responsible Tourism Advisor with programmes at the trade shows in London, Cape Town, Dubai & Sao Paulo

Responsible Tourism News Monthly

January 13, 2023
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 01/2023
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

 2023WTM Global Responsible Tourism Awards open for India, WTM Latin America and WTM Africa. 1st Global Responsible Tourism Summit 25-27 February 2023 Kumarakom, Kerala Symposium on Technology for Responsible Tourism 1-4 March Calicut, Kerala Climate Change Loss & Damage in Europe The Hydrogen Transition Gathers Pace  Tourism and Anthropogenic Climate Change Damaging Wildlife  Government action […]

Read More
December 17, 2022
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 12/2022
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

1st Global Summit on Responsible Tourism & Symposium on Technology for Responsible Tourism 2023 Responsible Tourism Awards open for WTM Latin America and WTM Africa.  COP15 Tourism and Biodiversity aspiring to be Nature Positive Tourism's Climate Footprint - - is it shrinking? Decarbonising Aviation  Listing your hotel as sustainable  Indigenous and  local communities push back  […]

Read More
November 5, 2022
RT News: WTM Special: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 11/2022
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

The 2022 Responsible Tourism Charter signed on Magna Carta Island on 6th November The WTM Responsible Tourism Awards Climate Change is accelerating - how is the industry responding? Conversations on the Stage at WTM, London 7th & 8th November India is now the World's Leading Responsible Tourism Destination Consumer Demand and Marketing Responsible Tourism Why […]

Read More
October 19, 2022
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 10/2022
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

The next edition of RT News will be published on November 3rd and contain full details of the Responsible Tourism programme at WTM, London. Register for free entry to WTM, London here  1. The Rest of the World Regional Awards & the WTM Global Awards will be presented on Monday 7th 2. The Responsible Tourism […]

Read More
September 8, 2022
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 09/2022
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

1. 2022 ICRT Awards 2. Aviation: Google & Hydrogen 3. Nature-positive tourism and zoos 4. TUI adopts Science Based Targets to reduce emissions 5. Is the age of cheap air travel over?  6. The "Big Issue" on aviation  7. Marine life in the Red Sea surveyed before coastal development  8. American Airlines orders "sons of […]

Read More
August 15, 2022
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 08/2022
Harold Goodwin
No Comments

1. Hydrogen  is the step change aviation needs 2. The ICRT India's Responsible Tourism Awards will be presented in Bhopal on September 7th 3. RT at WTM London 7-9 November 4. Now, we must adapt to Climate Change 5. Overtourism 6. The Travel Corporation (TTC) 7. Consumer Trends 8. Conscious Travel in Kerala 9. The […]

Read More
1 2 3 … 15
© 2023 The Responsible Tourism Partnership
Menu
Close
en English
af Afrikaansar Arabiczh-CN Chinese (Simplified)nl Dutchen Englishfi Finnishfr Frenchde Germanhi Hindiid Indonesianit Italianja Japaneseml Malayalammr Marathipt Portugueseru Russianes Spanishur Urduvi Vietnamesexh Xhosa
menu-circlecross-circle
linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram