Sacred places around the world demonstrate how tourism presents both opportunities and challenges for their preservation and spiritual significance. Sustainable models are essential to safeguarding the cultural, spiritual, and ecological integrity of these places.
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Tourism can play a significant role in promoting reconciliation processes and economic recovery in conflict regions. Respecting local communities and their history is crucial to preventing social tensions and fostering positive change.
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In the Global South, many colonial continuities are evident in tourism. Decolonizing tourism requires, above all, greater local participation. If this is not achieved, tourism can even create new, neo-colonial dependencies and perpetuate injustices.
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Tourism is both a contributor to and a victim of climate change. Climate neutrality therefore has a double impact. Climate justice in tourism means reducing emissions, enforcing the polluter-pays principle, and enhancing the value of tourism at the destination level.
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Tourism is indispensable for the achievement of all SDGs. That is why the Transforming Tourism Initiative (TTI) is taking stock at the mid-term point and looking at the extent to which progress can be seen in tourism for nine of the 17 goals. Five selected contributions are presented here in German.
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The inclusion of disadvantaged groups is a prerequisite to sustainable tourism. Social enterprises from the Global South know this and demonstrate, what participatory and inclusive tourism can look like.
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Small Islands States - Paradise of others (12/2022)
The United Nations call them SIDS (Small Island Development States); they prefer to call themselves "Large Ocean States". For the tourism industry, they are simply synonymous with tropical paradises. 38 states and 20 territories in the Caribbean, the Pacific and on both sides of the African
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In the German states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, school has started again after the summer break – just like in the Philippines. There, however, not the school holidays but an extremely long period of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic has finally come to an end. The Philippines are
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The current catastrophes - the Russian war on Ukraine, the climate crisis, but also still dysfunctional supply chains as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – are leading to shortages and higher prices for resources - from basic foodstuffs to electricity and fuels. This is also affecting tourism, as
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Tourism is a predominantly female industry. No matter where you travel: It is mostly women who clean the rooms, work in the gastronomy or sell the handicrafts - often under precarious conditions. In contrast, men dominate the executive floors of travel companies or the speakers’ lists of tourism
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It is not by coincidence that the independence of many African and Caribbean states in the 1960s coincides with the beginning of the mass tourism era in European long-distance travel. While the former colonial powers lost their economic interest in the regions, new sources of income had to be found
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Since 50 years, the international community celebrates World Tourism Day annually on September 27. On this day, the World Tourism Organization, which hosts the celebrations, recognizes the potential of tourism for sustainable development. In 2021, the theme will be "Tourism and Inclusive Growth".
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In Germany, summer feels a bit more like we were used to it before a contagious virus started to spread rapidly around the world by air, land, and sea. But this impression is misleading when one looks at the regions of the world that are still far away from vaccinating large parts of their
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Tourism is at a standstill, isn't it? From the traveler's perspective, not much is really happening at the moment. Does the standstill and the economic struggle for survival of the tourism industry fully describe the current situation? Well, only superficially, because other realities also exist:
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Even if it does not seem so in November 2020, domestic tourism is generally more resistant to shocks and crises and recovers from them faster than international tourism.
No wonder that more and more countries – also in the Global South - are currently launching new advertising campaigns and
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If Corona were not a cross-border, invisibly spreading health hazard, but rather an extremely prolonged period of rain, long-distance tourism would boom and garden centers would suffer. The opposite is the case - but the thought process makes it clear that the impact on industries and economic
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For many years, observers have been predicting that crises - caused for example by climate change or geopolitical turmoils - will be the dominant factor for our travel decisions. This was a long-standing trend, but Corona turned this prognosis into reality from one day to another.
The future is
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Issue Number:
100
Digital TourismPlatforms (02/2020)
Digitalisation is one of the most powerful trends in tourism. It renders essential changes in tourism value chains, which also have consequences for micro- and small enterprises in tourist destinations. Who really benefits from tourism? In the era of digitalisation, this question needs to be posed
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Issue Number:
99
Tourism and LGBTQI* (12/2019)
All over the world, LGBTQI* people face discrimination. Experts discuss in how far tourism can strengthen the rights as well as acceptance of homo- and transsexual people. Tourism businesses and associations, unions, activists and workers show, how they fight against homophobia and for equal
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Issue Number:
98
Flying and Climate Justice (09/19)
When it comes to aviation, actions rather than empty phrases are urgently needed. Every flight not taken is an active contribution to protect our climate. On a global scale, the North still flies disproportionally much. Therefore, in this issue we are focusing on our own realms analysing how
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Issue Number:
97
Social Media in Tourism (06/2019)
Snapchat, Instagram or Facebook. We are online all the time - whether we are at home or on holiday. This issue shows how travelbloggers can use their influence for good. Furthermore, it provides tipps on how travelllers can contribute to break with neo-colonial clishees on social media. ECPAT sheds
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,
As people in the Pacific islands find sea levels rising and water reservoirs turning salty, and the Maldives government is planning land acquisitions to resettle up to 400,000 people, these are more than slight indications of a looming climate change. The
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Focus on Climate Change
The international debate on tourism and climate change needs to be widened to include a human rights based approach. This is one of the main messages to tourism leaders formulated by a group of civil society organisations, including EED-Tourism Watch, in a discussion paper
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