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Jeremy Smith

sustainable tourism writer and communication strategist

Innovator Spotlight: community backpacking heaven with Bulungula Lodge, South Africa

01/06/2014 Leave a Comment

Innovator Spotlight: community backpacking heaven with Bulungula Lodge, South Africa

Few places have left as much of a mark on me as a remote lodge on South Africa’s Wild Coast called Bulungula.

Filed Under: Communication, Reviews Tagged With: community-based tourism

SPOTLIGHT: reviewing events marking World Responsible Tourism Day worldwide

11/28/2013 Leave a Comment

Across the world our supporters hold World Responsible Tourism Day events in their communities to raise awareness of issues tourism can address. These are 5 of our favourites from 2013.

Filed Under: Communication, Environment, Reviews Tagged With: world responsible tourism day, WRTD logo

Bigger and better – a brief review of events at World Responsible Tourism Day 2013

11/12/2013 1 Comment

World Responsible Tourism Day 2013 saw the initiative grow in strength, with more companies using tourism to address issues from climate change to child protection.

Filed Under: Reviews, Uncategorized

Innovator Spotlight: Gandhi Legacy Tours follows footsteps of the Mahatma

08/23/2013 Leave a Comment

Led by the Mahatma’s grandson, Gandhi Legacy tours visit social enterprises, women’s groups and other projects working across India on a unique 14 day trip.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: philanthropy, slum tourism

Innovator Spotlight: Wilderness Safaris uses great safaris to support community conservation

07/29/2013 Leave a Comment

Innovator Spotlight: Wilderness Safaris uses great safaris to support community conservation

Done right, safari is a very powerful tool for combining conservation with community development. And when you look at the various industry awards announced each year, one name keeps being repeated – Wilderness Safaris.

Filed Under: Environment, Reviews Tagged With: awards, community development, conservation, ecotourism, poaching, safari, WRTD logo

Innovator Spotlight: community tourism on Cuba’s remarkable organic urban farms

06/18/2013 Leave a Comment

Cuba Select Travel offers tours to Cuba’s organoponicos – a remarkable network of urban farm projects aimed at taking thousands of poorly utilized areas, mainly around Havana, and turning them into intensive vegetable gardens.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: agritourism, community-based tourism

China’s Urban Billion – review of book on impact of Chinese leaving the countryside

04/03/2013 Leave a Comment

China’s Urban Billion – review of book on impact of Chinese leaving the countryside

In 1980, fewer than 200 million of China’s people lived in towns and cities. But just 30 years later, an additional 500 million – the equivalent of the combined populations of the US, UK, France and Italy – had upped sticks and left the countryside for the big smoke.

Filed Under: Environment, Reviews Tagged With: China, Population, Resources, Urbanisation

Sustainable bed and breakfast at Pendragon Country House, in north Cornwall

12/04/2012 Leave a Comment

An intimate 19th-century country house hotel in North Cornwall, perched between the sea and Bodmin Moor. It rightfully prides itself on the quality of food and personal attention to guests. The Setting Turn off the A395 that connects Cornwall’s two main artery roads (A30 and A39) into the drive of Pendragon House. Your nearest town […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: eco bed and breakfast, ecotourism, green holidays UK, green hotel, holiday, north cornwall B&B, sustainable getaway

Does Cube’s tasting menu offer the best vegetarian meal in Johannesburg?

12/03/2012 Leave a Comment

This South African restaurant is the antithesis of European haute-cuisine hauteur. Instead Cube unselfconsciously revels in a no nonsense practicality, allowing the real focus to be where it matters – the food.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: best restaurants, food, holiday, johannesburg fine dining, senses, south africa restaurants, tasting menu, travel, vegetarian johannesburg

How I discovered great Irish community tourism at Creevy in Donegal

08/13/2012 Leave a Comment

Done right, tourism really can be beneficial for the places we visit. I’ve seen it from Zambia to Vietnam. And when I visited Creevy Cottages on the Atlantic coast of Donegal it proved to me that it could work right here in my own backyard.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: coastal breaks, community holidays ireland, cottages, fishing, ireland holiday breaks, Irish responsible tourism, self-catering, west ireland holidays

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