Responsible Tourism Partnership
World Responsible Tourism Awards
Dr. Harold Goodwin
- Chairs the panels of judges for the World Responsible Tourism Awards and the other Awards in the family, Africa, India and Ireland
- Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership
- Director , International Centre for Responsible Tourism Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-founded responsibletravel.com
- Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism at the University of Greenwich
- Emeritus Professor and Responsible Tourism Director at the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Advisor to the World Travel Market on its Responsible Tourism programme at WTM London
Topics:
01:04 Dr. Harold Goodwin
08:06 Difference responsible tourism and sustainable tourism
10:43 Politicians and corporate leaders announcements and lack of progress
14:24 World Travel Market and the World Responsible Tourism Awards. Goat Village – winner of the Gold Award
15:11 Carbon offsetting a get out of jail card? Alternatives to carbon offsetting
20:24 Stop talking about Climate Change
26:08 World Economic Forum and “6 ways travelling professionals can cut their carbon footprint”
39:27 Big Data
44:38 Is it possible to travel more responsible
47:06 end note.
ARTICLES DISCUSSED
We can all take steps to reduce the environmental impact of our work-related travels.
Individual actions – like the six described here – can cumulatively help prompt more collective changes, but it helps to prioritise by impact.
As the saying goes: be the change you want to see in the world
- Travel with trust
- Travel light
- Travel small
- Travel slowly
- Travel regeneratively
- Travel carefully
44 per cent of travel technology experts predict that ‘Big Data’ will have the biggest impact on the growth of sustainable travel, according to a survey by Travel Technology Europe.
Within the survey, ‘sustainable travel’ and ‘climate change’ were identified as two of the biggest challenges currently facing the industry: highlighted by 45 per cent and 44 per cent of respondents respectively. 47 per cent also commented that their clients are increasingly asking for more eco-friendly, sustainable options: an indication of the increasing importance of environmental concerns throughout the tourism industry.
