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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 31, 2021
RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 01/ 2021
Harold Goodwin
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We enter 2021 confronted by four inter-connected crises, all of them global in their reach and consequences. Covid-19, climate change, biodiversity loss and mounting inequality. All of them accelerating. Tourism is a contributor to all of these crises and a victim of them. The development of vaccines and new treatments for Covid-19 and the various […]

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December 21, 2020
Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism December 2020
Harold Goodwin
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The next edition will be out mid-January The Responsible Tourism Hub provides quick links to curated material on Responsible Tourism  RT Interviews and Panels from WTM, London are all now available States are adopting Responsible Tourism in India  Tourism devastated in the developing world Aviation and Climate Change Building Back Better?  Experiential & Domestic Tourism  Conserving […]

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November 9, 2020
Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism: WTM Virtual Special 10 & 11 November
Harold Goodwin
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The next edition will be out at the beginning of December The Responsible Tourism Hub provides quick links to curated material on Responsible Tourism  This year's WTM, London is virtual, there is no need to travel to London nor to find board and lodging away from home. You can participate from anywhere in the world over […]

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November 1, 2020
Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism: London Travel Week Special
Harold Goodwin
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The next edition will be out on 9th November, for Virtual  WTM The Responsible Tourism Hub provides quick links to curated material on Responsible Tourism  This year's London Travel Week and WTM, London are virtual, there is no need to travel to London nor to find board and lodging away from home. You can participate from […]

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October 16, 2020
Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism October 2020 (2)
Harold Goodwin
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Attend WTM, London - Be Carbon Zero Responsible Tourism at Virtual WTM,  10 & 11  November 2020  Looking ahead: Hope and Pledges  ABTA  roadmap for rebuilding travel and tourism Cape Town - where Responsible  Tourism was defined  Tourism Students Festival - India 16-17 October Narratives Matter - we must get beyond fatalism  Can testing get […]

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October 4, 2020
Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism October 2020 (1)
Harold Goodwin
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Launch of the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance  Responsible Tourism at Virtual WTM,  10 & 11  November 2020  Biodiversity and tourism, conflict or symbiosis, friend or foe?   Responsible Tourism Grows in India  Cruise Lines Face Particular Challenges: Covid-19 & Friends of the Earth Diversity Matters Action on Holiday Rentals  Action on Plastic  Animal cruelty rankings revealed: which […]

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