Ameer Virani

Ameer Virani

Ameer Vir­ani

Respons­ible tour­ism pro­fes­sion­al Ameer Vir­ani is Tour­ism In Need’s co-founder & part­ner­ships manager.

He has worked through­out the tour­ism eco­sys­tem since 2012, in Cam­bod­ia, India, Myan­mar, and Viet­nam, sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment of respons­ible tour­ism in the region through private-sec­tor and NGO initiatives.

Tourism in crisis, tourism in need, & the hopeful pivots of the purpose-driven

and October 14, 2020

Elephant Conservation Center, Sayaboury, Laos. Image by Jimmy Beunardeau; supplied by authors.

Even the most altru­ist­ic of tour­ism organ­isa­tions is strug­gling to sur­vive in des­tin­a­tions that have been reli­ant on inter­na­tion­al tour­ism money to take care of anim­als, places, and people. How­ever neces­sity is a par­ent of innov­a­tion and, as Tour­ism In Need co-founders Robert Pow­ell and Ameer Vir­ani have found out, there are plenty of both […]

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