Few places have left as much of a mark on me as a remote lodge on South Africa’s Wild Coast called Bulungula.
SPOTLIGHT: reviewing events marking World Responsible Tourism Day worldwide
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.
Bigger and better – a brief review of events at World Responsible Tourism Day 2013
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.
Innovator Spotlight: Gandhi Legacy Tours follows footsteps of the Mahatma
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.
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.
Innovator Spotlight: community tourism on Cuba’s remarkable organic urban farms
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.
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.
Sustainable bed and breakfast at Pendragon Country House, in north Cornwall
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 […]
Does Cube’s tasting menu offer the best vegetarian meal in Johannesburg?
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.
How I discovered great Irish community tourism at Creevy in Donegal
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.