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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

August 1, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 06/2024

Harold Goodwin

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This month's news: Improving Tourist Behaviour- advice and regulation; Overtourism - Destinations need to decide whether to use tourism or be used by it; Addressing Cruiseline Challenge; Technology for Responsible Tourism; Climate Change - mitigation is failing, now we have to adapt; Better Places has led the way in abandoning B Corp status; Hawaii is this Responsible Tourism? Japan - dual pricing; Antarctica - more regulation and management needed; Miscellaneous

July 15, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 05/2024

Harold Goodwin

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This month's news: Regulating Tourist Behaviour; Encouraging Responsible Travellers; Overtourism; The Canaries; Climate Change; Decarbonising Transport; Avoiding Greenwashing; Tourism, Sewage & Pollution; Overtourism - Japan; Miscellaneous

April 2, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 03/2024

Harold Goodwin

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This month's news: Responsible Tourism at WTM Africa; The end of Greenwashing? Tourists and Responsible Tourism; Tourism & Climate Change; Destination & the Industry; Scotland & Responsible Tourism; Irresponsible Tourists Spain; Last Chance Tourism: Irresponsible? Responsible Tourism and the USA; Miscellaneous

March 8, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 02/2024

Harold Goodwin

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This month's news: RT Conference at WTM Africa; Resilience Matters; The Travel Matters Checklist; Hawaii re-opening after the fires; Greenwashing under threat; Climate Change; Holiday Lets; Aviation; Plastic Pollution; Miscellaneous

February 12, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 01/2024

Harold Goodwin

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This month's news: Good News; Hydrogen: clean aviation; Business as Usual; Aviation - Business as Usual; Climate Change; Certification & Green Claims; Overtourism, Pollution, Holiday Lets, Second Homes and Tourist Behaviour; Taxation; Green Tech; Miscellaneous

January 7, 2024

RT News: Latest Developments in Responsible Tourism 12/2023

Harold Goodwin

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The 2022 Responsible Tourism Charter points out that responsibility drives sustainability, lists the most significant issues which need to be addressed, and asserts the importance of transparent reporting as essential to demonstrating what is being achieved and avoiding greenwashing. Responsible Tourism is about using tourism to make better places for people to live and better places […]

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