Responsible Tourism Articles

UNWTO: Tourism will help povery, climate

UN World Tourism Organization discuss how tourism can help relieve poverty and climate change. Published in Hotel Travel News on Saturday, March 10 2007.

Souvenirs hit threatened species

Tourism threatens endangered species. Reported by Arthur Strain, BBC News, 24 January 2007

The dark side of ecotourism

Travelling to eco-tourism sites might be countering the positive impacts. Doug Mellgren reports in Associated Press. Sourced on http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/Activities/Nature/2007/05/17/4188063.html

Vacationing like Brangelina

Volunteerism trips – the good and bad. Laura Fitzpatrick reports on July 26, 2007 in Time Magazine.

Global Tourism: growing fast

This is not an article about responsible tourism, but it gives facts and figures about global tourism.

Tourism feels the heat of global warming

This article offers some explanations as to why travel and tourism leaders are now feverishly working at the climate change front. It considers the idea that governments should rethink tourism as a development solution and offer alternatives to tourism in order to at least reduce the over-dependency on this industry in developing countries(Third World Network, October 2007).